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NEW DELHI — Israel blamed Iran on Monday for bomb attacks on its diplomats’ cars in India and Georgia, heightening concerns that the Jewish state was moving closer to striking its archenemy.
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The United States faces a human trafficking crisis just as countries overseas do, said journalist Nicholas Kristof in a lecture Monday.
Kristof, a New York Times columnist and two-time Pulitzer Prize...
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Gov. Chris Gregoire handed gay rights advocates a major victory Monday, signing into law a measure that legalizes same-sex marriage in Washington state, making it the seventh in...
GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemala’s president said Monday that the U.S. inability to deal with its drug consumption problem is leaving Central America with no option but to consider legalizing drugs.
President...
Occupy Austin and City Hall are reassessing tactics and regrouping after the eviction of the protest Feb. 3.
A new city policy enacting a curfew at City Hall between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. and banning tents...
Austin is showing some love for nonprofit organizations this week as part of the first Love Austin Week created by Snoball.com, starting Monday with dog treat sales for the Austin Pets Alive! organization.
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Despite University and high school officials discouraging prospective UT students from attending Roundup weekend activities, students in Greek organizations don’t expect less high-schooler turnout.
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Free condoms fashioned to resemble roses greeted UT students walking down the Drag Monday.
The student chapter of the Texas Freedom Network stood in the rain to equip students for safe sex on Valentine’s...
A local candy shop and a UT student are working together to raise funds to build an orphanage nearly 9,000 miles from Austin in the United Republic of Tanzania.
Through a self-organized profit sharing...
President Barack Obama’s 2013 fiscal budget, which he proposed Monday, will increase funding for several federal financial aid programs in an attempt to make higher education more affordable and...
With the goal of promoting equal opportunity for UT’s faculty, mechanical engineering vice provost and professor Janet Ellzey has been chosen to oversee gender equity issues at the University.
Taking...
