U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), is the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence—one of the bodies overseeing the investigation of Russia’s attempts to influence the 2016 presidential election.
A federal malpractice lawsuit has been filed against Duke University Health System and a Durham community health center for their medical treatment of a woman who died from undiagnosed embolisms, according to a report by the Durham Herald Sun.
With early voting underway and less than two weeks until the city’s municipal elections, Durham’s political action committees have made candidate endorsements.
Palestinians share an identity, whether they live within Israel or in the Israeli-occupied West Bank territory. What they cannot share—without caution, at least—are Facebook posts.
Barney Frank, a former Democratic congressman from Massachusetts, and former Deputy Treasury Secretary Sarah Raskin held a discussion Wednesday about how the United States' financial services industry has evolved since the Great Recession.
One faculty member journeyed to Italy last week to present a gift to the Pope.
A former U.S. congressman behind the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill in 2011 urged politicians and citizens to be more open to compromise in a talk at the Sanford School of Public Policy Tuesday.
Home for Jay Zussman is New York, though in his third year as an undergraduate at Duke, Durham is starting to feel more like home too. After getting back early Tuesday morning from fall break, Zussman frequented his usual haunts—Harris Teeter for groceries, then Mad Hatter Cafe to study. It was only three days later, on Friday, while scrolling through his Facebook feed that Zussman realized that the city had held municipal primary elections.
A North Carolina woman pleaded guilty after she was caught fraudulently obtaining more than 8,000 hydrocodone opioid pills—all using a Duke neurosurgeon's name and DEA number.
International laws aim to restrict states’ behavior and protect civilians. But Israel’s 50 years of control over the West Bank and Gaza demonstrates that a state can reinterpret international law to serve its own interests, too.
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has introduced a resolution honoring the life of Samuel DuBois Cook, the first African American to hold either a regular or tenured faculty appointment at a predominantly white Southern college or university.
In an increasingly polarized political climate, compromise seems out of reach—but not to one Trump official.
Durham Mayor Bill Bell, who has held the office for 16 years, has formally endorsed mayoral candidate Farad Ali as his successor.
With a booming voice and a backwards beret hat, Lester Spence, associate professor of political science and Africana studies at John Hopkins University, made his presence clear as soon as he spoke.
All the parties involved in the Catalonian independence movement should aim for a peaceful settlement, said several experts in European politics at a panel Wednesday.
When Steve Schewel climbed atop a chair amid cheers and cowbell-ringing to address the remnants of what had been a fifty-person crowd, his supporters were not waiting to see if he would make the runoff. Rather, they lingered in the bar to see if his vote totals would top the “psychological threshold” of 50 percent.
The results from Durham’s municipal primary election are in.
As U.S. territories in the Caribbean struggle to recover from the back-to-back impacts of Hurricanes Irma and Maria, Duke is not sitting idle.
Presentations are stressful, particularly when they involve a group of powerful investors and are broadcast on national television.
As Hurricane Maria tore through Puerto Rico two weeks ago, many Duke students from the island felt helpless as they awaited news about their family and friends’ safety. Afterward, as the extent of the destruction became horrifically evident, these undergraduates joined forces with a nationwide movement of college students raising money to aid Puerto Rico.
