PARIS — Police fired tear gas and water cannons at protesters blockading high schools across France on Tuesday, as tens of thousands of students, parents and teachers took to the streets to demand more funding for the public school system.

A nationwide day of protest follows more than two weeks of demonstrations and blockades over school conditions. More than 5,000 people have been detained, many of them minors.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched in cities across France on Tuesday in support of protests by school pupils demanding more education funding, increasing pressure on the government of outgoing President Emmanuel Macron.

The demonstrations showed how protests that began at a high school in the Paris region in mid-September have grown into a nationwide movement.

Okinawa prefectural police said they arrested Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, who is stationed at Futenma Air Station, on suspicion of strangling Anna Yagi, 39, at a hotel in the islands

The 39-year-old woman’s body was found in her hotel room and she appeared to have been strangled to death, the Kyodo News agency reported.

A US Marine was arrested Sunday on suspicion of murder and robbery after a woman’s body was discovered in a hotel room in Okinawa, prompting outrage across Japan, with the local governor saying the incident showed the US efforts to maintain discipline among its troops were “completely ineffective.”

The Marines confirmed Lance Corporal Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, was arrested.

Fox News contributor Rebeccah Heinrichs joins ‘America Reports’ to discuss the seventh arrest in an alleged U.K. base terror plot and the decision to move U.S. B-1 bombers amid a potential Iranian drone threat.

UK and American officials have claimed Iran was involved in the incident in which five British men were arrested near the base

The Pentagon confirmed on Sunday it had removed its bombers - thought to be about a dozen B-1s - from the base back to their home stations in America.

The Pentagon confirmed on Sunday it had removed the B1 bombers from the base in England back to their home stations in America.

President Trump said he is pressing for a speedy end to the Russia-Ukraine conflict and he plans to speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin soon.

ABC News contributor Mick Mulroy discusses the latest headlines related to the war in Ukraine.

Ukraine claims its long-range strikes have neutralized over half of Russia's oil refining capacity, impacting troop and equipment supply in the war

Ukraine said long-range strikes have put more than half of Russia's oil refining capacity out of action

Francis Halzen has won the Nobel Prize in physics for his work on neutrinos, tiny cosmic particles that offer clues to the universe’s evolution

Belgium-born scientist Francis Halzen awarded prize for pioneering work on how to detect neutrinos in a giant ice cube

The 82-year-old scientist, originally from Belgium, is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research into capturing neutrinos at the South Pole dates back to the 1980s.

This year's Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States for neutrino research, the Nobel Committee for Physics and the Royal