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Like many growing cities, Durham has a housing problem driven by the gentrification of low-income communities and the displacement of the city’s lowest earners.
One thing stands out as a turning point in Birkhead's long career: his time at Duke.
It’s that time of year again—the Durham Municipal General Election is Tuesday, so it’s a chance for Durhamites, residents and college students to make their way to the polls.
The 2019 Durham Municipal Election is today. Today, Durham voters will head to the polls to cast ballots for candidates running for mayor and three at-large seats on the City Council, as well as a referendum on a $95 million bond for affordable housing. Voters can find their polling location on the Durham County’s Board of Elections website. Here is information about the candidates for mayor and city council.
After months of debate, a panel of three North Carolina Superior Court judges ruled Monday that North Carolina’s congressional district map is in violation of the state constitution and can no longer be used.
Federal Judge Allison Dale Burroughs ruled Oct. 1 that Harvard’s admissions process did not “intentionally [discriminate] against Asian-American applicants” and cleared the university of all four counts of purported malpractice.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden came to Durham Sunday, where he painted a dark portrait of America: a nation in danger of losing its soul under President Donald Trump.
Gordon Sondland, U.S. ambassador to the European Union, testified Oct. 17 about the ongoing impeachment inquiry into Trump’s effort to get the Ukranian government to open an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden, a leading Democratic presidential candidate. He also has connections to Duke—he sat on the Sanford Board of Visitors from 2017 until 2018, and a foundation he and his wife founded has donated $1.7 million to Duke.
At a Wednesday talk, former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni stressed the need for a two-state solution to maintain a Jewish democratic state. However, her presence on campus was met with resistance and protest by some students.
The Chronicle's photo and video staff take you inside the fair before it leaves town.
U.S. President Donald Trump is not the first chief executive to pressure the Federal Reserve to follow a certain monetary policy.
For the keynote address at the Provost Forum, Kristof detailed the continued strain of antagonism towards immigrants throughout American history.
Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy drew some ire when it decided not to renew Professor Evan Charney’s contract and he had to stop teaching at the end of the Spring 2019 semester. Now it has also attracted the official attention of Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and the Senate Committee on Finance. Grassley recently penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal and sent a formal letter to President Vincent Price requesting answers about Charney’s case.
Two Duke researchers have found a way to confuse machine learning systems, potentially revealing a new way to protect online privacy.
A person is suspected of shooting someone Friday afternoon just off Duke’s West Campus.
Duke has joined 18 other colleges and universities in filing an Oct. 4 amicus brief in the Supreme Court that defends of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, according to a news release.
Marcia Abbott graduated from Duke in 1981, and she and her husband went to illicit ends in an attempt to help their daughter follow in her footsteps.
The House of Representatives has opened a formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. But what does that mean for the presidency and the 2020 election?
Duke employee Abby Grubbs took her first online Jeopardy! test in 2016. Three years later, she finally made it on the show.
William Kaelin Jr., Trinity '79, School of Medicine '82 and a member of the Board of Trustees, has won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine today.
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