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Eight Duke Law professors signed a letter supporting impeaching President Donald Trump that Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., entered into the Congressional Record before Wednesday’s historic House vote to impeach the president.
A researcher and member of the Iranian community at Duke wrote that the national internet shutdown has sparked “major problems for Iranians inside and outside the country.” He added that Iranian students studying abroad couldn’t communicate with their families and had trouble learning what was happening in the country.
Samantha Power, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, spoke to a packed audience at Penn Pavilion Tuesday night about her career and latest memoir.
The Boy family, who owned Sam’s Quik Shop for decades, plans to open a “spin-off” of the convenience store in downtown Durham and name it “The Quikie.”
$2.5 million for 27 acres? This may seem exorbitant, but for Duke, this addition to the Duke Forest was well worth the cost.
A panel of three NC judges ruled that the state’s redrawn U.S. House district map will be used in 2020.
Pitches from local entrepreneurs came with a side of locally-sourced spicy lentil soup at the Durham SOUP community dinner Nov. 12.
Stephen Miller, White House senior advisor and Trinity ‘07, drew a firestorm of media attention this week after hundreds of his emails with a former Breitbart editor were reported by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The Chronicle sat down with New York Times reporter Jason DeParle, Trinity ‘82, before he delivered the 2019 Crown Lecture in Ethics Monday.
Duke students braved the cold and rain Tuesday to join a rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court building in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
A new report faulted GoTriangle for “kicking the can down the road."
Members of the Durham community recently came together to celebrate the city’s 150th anniversary, honoring its past and future through narration, live performance and music.
A retired professor emeritus of music at Duke told the story of his family’s flight from Nazi persecution at a Thursday event at the Freeman Center.
Durham is no stranger to the debates emerging about gun violence around the country.
The U.S. Department of Education once threatened to withhold funding from the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies, and now House Democrats are questioning the Department’s motives.
The crowd of 3,550 at a town hall in Raleigh couldn’t go more than a few sentences without applauding Sen. Warren.
The letter emphasized the threats posed to the American economy due to current administrative policies reducing the number of high-skilled immigrants entering the country. Fifty business school deans and thirteen CEOs signed the letter. “We do not believe the U.S. has the high-skill talent it needs, nor does it have the capacity to train enough people with those skills,” the letter explained. “Without a substantial change in our approach, this deficit of skills will hinder economic growth.”
Opinion Editor Leah Abrams hosts a discussion with reporters Maria Morrison, Matthew Griffin and Olivia Wivestead about the Durham election results.
Incumbents carried the day in Durham elections—but less than a fifth of eligible voters participated.
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.
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