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The 17.7 mile project would feature stops at Duke, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina Central University.
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$3.3 billion light rail cost-sharing plan approved by local authorities

After receiving support from local authorities this week, the Durham-Orange light rail’s cost-sharing agreement is headed to the Federal Transit Administration for review. The Durham-Orange light rail—a 17.7 mile project that would connect Durham and Orange Counties and feature stops at Duke, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina Central University—is slated to be complete by 2028.


Khizr Khan, who visited Duke Thursday night, is famous for offering to lend a pocket-size version of the Constitution to Donald Trump.
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Khizr Khan pulls out pocket Constitution in speech at Duke

In late July 2016, Khizr Khan became one of the most memorable images of the last night of the Democratic National Convention when the gold star, Muslim-American father pulled a pocket constitution from his jacket and offered to lend it to then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. On Thursday night, Khan again pulled out his pocket constitution—but instead of speaking to the thousands gathered in Philadelphia and the country watching from TV screens, Khan was delivering the James P.