Skip to Main Content
The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

Rep. John Conyers quits House committee post amid sexual harassment probe

Sexual abuse allegations continued to roil U.S. politics Sunday, with Democrat Rep. John Conyers Jr. stepping down from a powerful House post and President Donald Trump again voicing support for Republican...

Zimbabwe’s Mugabe remains president, at least temporarily, after ruling party fires him

By Robyn Dixon | Los Angeles Times (TNS) November 19, 2017

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who was widely expected to resign Sunday after the ruling party sacked him and threatened to impeach him if he did not leave office, conceded a need for change but remained...

House passes its tax reform plan as Senate version comes under new attack

House Republicans approved their sweeping tax-cut package Thursday, setting up a showdown with the Senate, where Republicans are struggling to win support for their own significantly different approach. Senate...

Sparked by #MeToo campaign, sexual assault survivors rally and march in Hollywood

By Brittny Mejia | Los Angeles Times (TNS) November 12, 2017

Some wore T-shirts with the words "Me Too" emblazoned across the front, while others held up signs that said "No more sexual abuse" and "Rape is not a joke." On Sunday, several hundred survivors of...

GOP’s Roy Moore pushed to quit Senate race after accusation he molested 14-year-old girl

Republicans' lock on an Alabama seat in the U.S. Senate was thrown into doubt Thursday when the party's religious-right candidate was accused of initiating a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl when...

Carter Page tells Russia probe he’s ‘biggest embarrassment’ to Trump

By Billy House | Bloomberg News (TNS) November 6, 2017

Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to President Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, refused last week to give a congressional committee documents related to the Russia investigation because he...

26 dead in Texas church shooting, with children among the victims

At least 26 people were shot and killed Sunday when a 26-year-old gunman dressed in black opened fire at a Baptist church in a small town near San Antonio. An additional 20 people were injured in the...

Indictment expected from Mueller’s probe into Trump campaign aides

One of two former top strategists for the Trump campaign is "likely" to face indictment as early as Monday, a senior Democrat said Sunday, previewing what would be the first criminal charges in the intensifying...

Trump divide trickles down to colleges

LOS ANGELES — University of California, Irvine senior Ariana Rowlands is buddies with Milo Yiannopoulos, the right-wing provocateur who has sparked campus uproars over free speech. She writes for Steve...

38 women have come forward to accuse director James Toback of sexual harassment

By Glenn Whipp | Los Angeles Times (TNS) October 22, 2017

He prowled the streets of Manhattan looking for attractive young women, usually in their early 20s, sometimes college students, on occasion a high schooler. He approached them in Central Park, standing...

Load More Stories