Civil Rights Corps filed a federal lawsuit last week in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of nine protesters.

The ferocity and magnitude of the demonstration indicated that critics' dismay isn't being quelled by a shift at the top of Democrats' presidential ticket -- that protests, including on college campuses as the academic year starts up,

Israeli and Hamas officials have downplayed the idea that a deal could be imminent, saying that mediators’ efforts have not resolved major disputes.

Negotiators are headed back to Cairo this week to see if they can convince Hamas to agree to the bridge proposal.