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This year the museum celebrates its fifth anniversary. It is one of the most popular sites on the National Mall, according to the Smithsonian’s 2020 visitor statistics, even more popular than the National Museum of American History, the National Zoo and the National Air and Space Museum.

In 1972, just 18 days after he was selected to run for vice president with Democratic Sen. George McGovern, Thomas Eagleton was forced off the ticket. The issue? Years earlier, Eagleton had been hospitalized and treated with electroshock therapy for depression.

Student protestors took over the university’s Armour J. Blackburn Center, the university’s social hub, in mid-October to complain about the lack of student housing and the poor condition of existing housing, including accusations of buildings with mold and rats.

In September, when Texas’ near-total abortion ban took effect, Planned Parenthood clinics in the Lone Star State started offering every patient who walked in information on Senate Bill 8, as well as emergency contraception, condoms and two pregnancy tests.

Food insecurity is no new issue in D.C., or America, but it remains a real problem for two of the city’s poorest wards as the rest of the city flourishes.

Student have been occupying the building since Oct. 13 and in a press conference Monday said they will continue to do so until Frederick and the school’s board of trustees agrees to meet with the student body for an open discussion about housing and student participation on the board.

Black businesses and efforts to boost entrepreneurial education and opportunities at the nation’s 101 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU) and their surrounding communities got a $16.8 million boost today from PNC Bank through the PNC Foundation.

Hartig says the exhibit is part of the vision being established by Lonnie G. Bunch III, the Smithsonian’s first African-American secretary and the first African-American to lead the institution of 19 museums, founded in 1836.

Jamie Fox says there's a "whole lot of love" in his family and he just doesn't need the "pressure" of being married.

Hospital executives were already attuned to workplace violence before the pandemic struck. But stresses from covid have exacerbated the problem, they say, prompting increased security, de-escalation training and pleas for civility. And while many hospitals work to address the issue on their own, nurses and other workers are pushing federal legislation to create enforceable standards nationwide.