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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

Iran’s supreme leader warns US against making ‘wrong move’ on nuclear deal

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Sunday that Iran would respond strongly to "any wrong move" by the United States on the multilateral nuclear deal struck in 2015. President Donald Trump...

University of Florida sees little chance of stopping speech by white nationalist

By Jeff Weiner / Orlando Sentinel September 17, 2017

As the University of Florida prepares to allow white nationalist Richard Spencer to speak on its campus, experts said the school is making the legally correct decision, even as other colleges hold firm...

Former USC assistant gives up NFL career to pursue path in ministry

By David Wharton | Los Angeles Times September 14, 2017

A metallic growl _ low-pitched and frantic _ came from somewhere above him. Rocky Seto was taking his morning run, jogging around a quiet lagoon, when he looked up to see a small plane tumble out of...

Los Angeles officially awarded 2028 Olympic Games

By David Wharton | Los Angeles Times September 14, 2017

Los Angeles' roller coaster campaign to host the Olympics for a third time _ an effort marked by early defeat and last-second negotiations _ reached a conclusion Wednesday when the city was formally awarded...

Unraveling Russia’s Facebook strategy calls for deep dive by investigators

 Some cyber industry experts and former government investigators suspect that Russians’ newly revealed purchase of $150,000 in election-related Facebook ads was merely a trial run for a much bigger,...

Berkeley braces for right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro’s visit

By Anna M. Phillips | Los Angeles Times (TNS) September 12, 2017

Girding itself for a visit from another polarizing political figure and the possibility of more violent protests, the University of California, Berkeley is tightening campus security. In a message sent...

Hard-hit Virgin Islands residents feel like ‘bastard step-children’ of US after Irma

By Jim Weiss | Miami Herald (TNS) September 12, 2017

As Hurricane Irma bore down on the Caribbean last week, Laurel Brannick, a park ranger on far-flung St. John Island, flipped through news channels to see how she might be affected. It appeared the U.S....

Penn State trainer: ‘I wasn’t in charge of discipline’ at frat house where pledge died

The 56-year-old Pennsylvania State University football trainer who was living in a campus fraternity house when a sophomore pledge died in February said he had no role in the house party that night and...

University of Maryland marching band will stop playing state song with Confederate ties

The University of Maryland's marching band will no longer play the state's song, which was used as a pro-Confederate battle hymn and bashes "the Northern scum." The state's flagship university has suspended...

At least 9 people dead as Harvey continues its rampage across Texas

Tropical Storm Harvey continued to pummel southeast Texas on Monday, leaving at least nine people dead and vast swaths of the nation's fourth-largest city unrecognizable as murky brown water submerged...

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