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The U.S. Capitol Police Chief who announced his resignation following this week's deadly riot has served in Washington, D.C., law enforcement for decades and has played a prominent role in handling security for numerous presidential inaugurations.

Jody Levison-Johnson named president and CEO of the New Organization.

Adrian Daub, a professor of comparative literature at Stanford, set out to show his students that the tech industry doesn't have answers to all of life's big questions.

Bernadette Pérez is a new member of the UC Berkeley faculty

The two-part exhibition features art collective Related Tactics and will be on display from November 19, 2020 through February 14, 2021

Find out what Wakanda has to do with climate change in the first episode of Temperature Check, Grist's new podcast on climate, race, and culture.

Officers found 38-year-old Carrie O'Connor in the elevator on September 14.

Half of academic papers are never read by anyone other than their authors, peer reviewers, and journal editors.

The Academy has chosen its film scholars this year and is not letting the coronavirus pandemic get in the way of one of AMPAS' most important programs, at least in terms of serious studies relating to the film industry. Fittingly, considering Oscar's drive toward greater diversity, both projects involve issues revolving around movies and their […]

As NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft prepares to briefly touch down and collect a sample from the asteroid Bennu in October, the mission's science team, led by the University of Arizona, has worked meticulously to create the highest resolution global map of any planetary body, including Earth. The endeavor is the latest in the university's long history of celestial imaging and mapping—one that began with the first lunar…

A top prosecutor in former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of President...

Senate Republicans unveiled a police reform proposal on Wednesday that aims to end the use of cho...

President Trump on Friday said he "learned a lot from Richard Nixon" as he reflected on his handl...

Lawmakers were huddling Thursday evening to hash out the details of coronavirus legislation, in the hope of passing the relief package for families and workers later in the night.

"Nothing Changes Until You Do" is one of my favorite quotes and book titles from my colleague Mike Robbins. I keep this book on my bedside table for a reason; every time I am angry or irritated with people around me I am reminded that I am accountable for myself and that if I want my circumstances to change, it starts with me. That means anything from changing my perspective, to my thoughts, to my behavior, to my…

Rep. Phil Roe (R-Tenn.) announced Friday that he will not seek reelection, making the six-term la...

The last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front has become known as the "Battle of the Bulge" for the thrust into the Allied lines. For the Americans, this was to be the largest and bloodiest single engagement of the Second World War, and also the third deadliest campaign in American history. It began 75 years ago on Dec. 16, 1944, and while it caught the Allied forces off guard, in the end, the…

A lifelong love of the movies has led to a Mt. Lebanon man leading a nonprofit that helps strengthen film collections at academic libraries around the country, from kindergarten through university level. Chad Hunter is the new executive director of Video Trust, a 40-year-old national organization that provides professional development

In the wake of Biden's victory, left-wing lawmakers could push a disastrous corporate-licensing requirement.

Judith Jarvis Thomson, professor emerita of philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and one of the most influential moral philosophers of the past 50 years, has died. Professor Thomson was known for her work on a variety of issues in normative ethics, applied ethics, metaethics, and metaphysics. She is the author of Normativity, The Realm of Rights, Rights, Restitution, and Risk, among many other…