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By Nikita Karulkar, Staff Writer February 23, 2017

Thousands of sexual assault kits around the nation have been left untested. One lab in Allegheny County found a short-term solution. Natasha Alexenko is an advocate. Alexenko is an activist. Alexenko...

Trump protesters marched down Forbes Avenue on Saturday as part of a Pitt College Democrats rally.  Thomas Yang | Staff Photographer

Trump protesters march twice over weekend

President Donald Trump may have taken office a full month ago, but his detractors haven’t lost any of the passion they showed on inauguration day. Marching to the beat of drums, hundreds of protesters...

Las Palmas' Oakland store posted a message in both English and Spanish informing customers they would be closed Thursday. James Evan Bowen-Gaddy | Contributing Editor

Las Palmas closes today, protests Trump

Las Palmas Restaurante will close up shop today, along with Mexican restaurants across the country as part of the “Day Without Immigrants” national protest against President Donald Trump’s immigration...

Pauline Donnelly, 63, and Elizabeth Wozniak, 25, rallied against and for Planned Parenthood, respectively. Alexis Carter | Staff Writer

Abortion legislation prompts protests

By Alexis Carter / Staff Writer February 13, 2017

On any given day, you can find small groups of protesters outside Planned Parenthood clinics across the country. But the pro-life national movement came out in full force Saturday to pressure the president...

More than 200 Pittsburgh high school students gathered in Market Square to protest the confirmation of Betsy DeVos as education secretary. Courtesy of @notthreefifths/Twitter

Students react to Toomey’s decision to vote for DeVos

Never in American history has a Cabinet member needed the vice president to break the tie that would elect them into the president’s Cabinet. But the Senate vote on Betsy DeVos, who was later confirmed...

Courtesy of Mark Janavel

Pitt alum gives people that are trans voice with “Transient”

By Andrew O'Brien / Staff Writer February 1, 2017

Many members of the LGBTQ+ community see Trump’s presidency as an existential threat. Pitt alum Mark Janavel aims to give people are transgender a voice with an upcoming documentary about the transgender...

Protesters march down Forbes Avenue on Saturday at rally organized to protest Trump's executive order on immigration. Stephen Caruso | Online Visual Editor

No ban, no wall, no silence in Pittsburgh

No one was detained at the Pittsburgh International Airport Sunday, but the crowd showed up anyway. In solidarity with similar protests across the country, including those at Washington Dulles International...

Police push back protesters on 12th Avenue during street protests following the inauguration of President Donald Trump.  Among the 230 people arrested during the Inauguration protests, five of them were Pitt students. John Hamilton | Visual Editor

Five Pitt students arrested at inauguration in D.C.

The morning of Inauguration Day, before Trump took his presidential oath, Americans filtered onto the National mall. Among them, Anika Mavinkurve, a senior neuroscience major, noticed that the inauguration...

Pittsburgh is becoming a testing site for autonomous vehicles. Darrell Sapp/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/TNS

Pittsburgh, Penn State chosen as national autonomous vehicle testing sites

By Amanda Reed / Assistant News Editor January 24, 2017

Expect to see even more autonomous vehicles driving around Pennsylvania in the coming months. The federal Department of Transportation accepted PennDOT’s request to make Pennsylvania a National Proving...

Marchers process from the capitol towards the White House. At least 500,000 people marched according to most estimates. John Hamilton | Visual Editor

Hello, Trump: Women’s March on Washington, D.C.

By The Pitt News Staff January 23, 2017

This is a continuation of Hello, Trump: Inauguration Day in Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C., Saturday It started with a Facebook event. Teresa Shook, from Hawaii, made a Facebook page for the...

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