The Lake County state’s attorney, joined by local and state officials, announced a new “violence reduction plan” Tuesday afternoon that aims to prevent gun violence in the Waukegan, North Chicago and Zion communities. Lake County State’s Attorney Eric Rinehart — joined by officials like Congressman Brad Schneider, State Representative Rita Mayfield and State Senator Adriane […]
A good memoir should be more than an autobiography and less than a confessional but contain elements of both. As a reader, I am less interested in being overwhelmed with family trauma and pathos except when it informs the greater tale being told. Quite often, it is the memoirs that feature an excess of pathos More
The University of Iowa has seen a decrease in the number of tenured faculty members across departments in the last decade. According to a data digest from the Office of the Provost published in 2024, the UI had 1,240 tenured faculty in 2014. The number has since declined by 166 members. A recent Board of
The University of Oxford's Border Criminologies research network have contributed to the first interactive, open-source database of rights violations inside Greek detention centers.
The fundraiser celebrating the life of Amya Monserrat will go from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Pioneer Pavilion on Old Furnace Road.
University of Iowa students filtered through the hallways on the second floor of the Iowa Memorial Union Wednesday for a sit-in following the university’s decision to dissolve the Rape Victim Advocacy Program and transition it to the Domestic Violence Intervention Program. The several dozen students who participated in the sit-in called for the program to
Unionized workers in the US saw record raises, while nonunion workers’ pay barely beat inflation over the past 12 months.
In the summer of 1968, the Democratic National Convention in Chicago was marked by protests, some of which turned violent. The protestors there were primarily those opposed to American involvement in Vietnam, and the troubled air around that convention has roiled national Democrats ever since.
Hardik Pandya and Krunal Pandya are one star brother duo in the IPL, who are widely regarded. Hardik is the captain of the Mumbai Indians team while Krunal is an important spin allrounder for Lucknow Super Giants. The brothers started playing cricket together and rose to fame almost at the same time. Both played for MI at one point of time. Then then went to different franchises. Ahead of the 2024 season, Hardik came back to MI as the...
In the 1930s, the United States government introduced redlining, a discriminatory practice that categorized neighborhoods based on people's race or ethnicity and denied financial services to residents in certain areas—redlining disproportionately affected marginalized communities. While redlining was officially outlawed in 1968, new research from Boston Children's Hospital suggests a relationship between historic redlining and present-day gun violence.
The movie stars Eddie Murphy, Keke Palmer, and Pete Davidson.
After school on April 15, a fight broke out a couple of blocks from Washington Preparatory High School in South L.A. In a cellphone video of the incident, an adult can be heard saying off camera, just before the fight began: "Let them fight. If they want to fight, let the police [inaudible]. I’m not breaking up s—. I don’t give a f—." The adult who apparently declined to intervene was a member of the "safe passages" program designed to make sure students get to and from school unharmed,...