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The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

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The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
FWC investigator Ashley Lawrence uses a video scope to check a burrow for a monitor lizard spaotted in Davie, Fla. on Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018. (Joe Cavaretta/Sun Sentinel/TNS)

Huge monitor lizard terrorizes Florida family with repeat visits

By Wayne K. Roustan • August 29, 2018

A terrified Florida family has enlisted the help of trappers, hunting dogs and state wildlife officers to try to catch a monitor lizard that has made repeated visits to their home in Davie. It's an estimated...

Gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum addresses the crowd of educators as Democrats running for the U.S. Senate, Florida governor and attorney general for the State of Florida attended an educational rally hoping to excite teachers and educators for their vote, on Sunday, Aug. 19, 2018 at the Betty Anderson Rec Center in Miami Gardens, Fla. (Carl Juste/Miami Herald/TNS)

3 big reasons behind Andrew Gillum’s upset victory in Fla. gubernatorial primary

By Anthony Man and Skyler Swisher • August 29, 2018

Andrew Gillum's supporters and campaign team spent the final weeks of the primary campaign telling anyone who would listen that their candidate was surging, and would end up as the Democratic nominee for...

Office of Management and Budget Director and Acting Director fo the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Mick Mulvaney Jan. 19, 2018 in the White House in Washington, D.C. The CFPB's Student Loan Ombudsman Seth Frotman resigned Monday, citing political differences. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS)

CFPB student loan ombudsman resigns, blasts Mulvaney

By Kellie Mejdrich | CQ-Roll Call • August 27, 2018
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Student Loan Ombudsman Seth Frotman resigned Monday, citing political differences at the agency under Acting Director Mick Mulvaney.
Multiple people, including a suspected gunman, were killed in a mass shooting during a video game tournament at a Jacksonville, Fla., restaurant, on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2018. (Dreamstime/TNS)

Several slain in mass shooting at Florida video game tournament

By Monique O. Madan and Glenn Garvin | Miami Herald • August 26, 2018
Among the dead was 24-year-old David Katz of Baltimore, a defeated contestant in the tournament. Police say he killed himself after opening fire on other competitors.
On August 19, 2018, Pope Francis delivers Angelus prayer at St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. (Evandro Inetti/Zuma Press/TNS)

Former Vatican envoy accuses Pope of hiding sexual abuse allegations

By Tracy Wilkinson and Simon Roughneen | Los Angeles Times • August 26, 2018
The former envoy's 11-page broadside rocked the Roman Catholic world as Pope Francis finished a two-day visit to Ireland.
A Waymo self-driving autonomous vehicle in Tempe, Ariz., on February 3, 2018. (Kristoffer Tripplaar/Sipa USA/TNS)

Makers of driverless cars want Congress to free them from state safety standards

By Eliza Fawcett, Los Angeles Times • July 12, 2018
The House passed a bill last fall and similar legislation is pending in the Senate. Both aim to boost the driverless car industry by streamlining rules and preventing states from imposing their own safety and performance standards.
Students are evacuated by police out of Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., after a shooting on February 14, 2018. (Mike Stocker/Sun Sentinel/TNS)

Parkland students who survived shooting file federal lawsuit

By Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel • July 12, 2018
The lawsuit specifically names Broward County, retired school resource officer Scot Peterson, Broward Sheriff's Office Capt. Jan Jordan and campus monitor Andrew Medina as defendants.
Nikki Haley, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, at the United Nations in New York on September 11, 2017. (Michael Brochstein/Sipa USA/TNS)

US withdraws from UN Human Rights Council

By Tracy Wilkinson | Tribune Washington Bureau • June 19, 2018

WASHINGTON _ The Trump administration announced Tuesday it is withdrawing from the U.N. body that oversees human rights around the globe, saying the 47-nation council has shown an "unconscionable" bias...

Photos released by the White House of then CIA Director Mike Pompeo, left, meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang over Easter weekend. (White House/Zuma Press/TNS)

Diplomats hustle to prepare for still-uncertain Trump-Kim summit in Singapore

By Eli Stokols and Tracy Wilkinson |Tribune Washington Bureau • May 29, 2018

The Trump administration moved on multiple fronts Tuesday to prepare for a possible nuclear summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore next month, as U.S. diplomats scrambled to revive the...

The hurricane’s devastation left this house in Puerto Rico without a roof (pictured on Sept. 25, 2017) after Hurricane Maria struck the island nearly one week earlier. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Study: Hurricane Maria’s death toll 70 times higher than Puerto Rican officials have reported

By Karen Kaplan and Amina Khan | L.A. Times • May 29, 2018

Officials in Puerto Rico say that 64 people lost their lives after Hurricane Maria slammed into the island in September. A new report says that estimate is off _ by about 4,600. If the analysis is correct,...

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