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Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan listens as President Trump speaks during a signing event for Space Policy Directive 4 in the Oval Office last month.

Acting Defense Secretary Shanahan Investigated Over Ties To Boeing

Patrick Shanahan spent 30 years as a Boeing executive before joining the Defense Department as deputy secretary. The inspector general will examine whether Shanahan improperly promoted Boeing.

'I Can Exist Here': On Gender Identity, Some Colleges Are Opening Up

A decade ago, one university started putting pronouns on course rosters. Today, it's not alone.

Peter Tarjan of Miami and his cat Jodi. Tarjan's grandparents and parents died in the Holocaust. The Holocaust Memorial Museum recently hired a full-time curator in South Florida to collect objects from Holocaust survivors to preserve history.

'Time Is Running Out': Museum Curator In Florida Races To Preserve Holocaust Items

Since Holocaust survivors are getting older and their stories are fading away, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is putting curators in regions where survivors live to preserve their memories.

Embracing 'Black Power' and fighting injustice with a law book and a gun

This story originally aired on March 23, 2019.When Elmer Dixon was growing up in Seattle’s Madrona neighborhood in the early 1960s, the neighborhood was…

Duke University is paying the U.S. $112.5 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting falsified research data to win or keep federal grants. Here, a photo shows the Duke University Hospital in Durham, N.C., in 2008, when some of the fraud was alleged to have taken place.

Duke Whistleblower Gets More Than $33 Million In Research Fraud Settlement

Duke University is paying the U.S. government $112.5 million to settle accusations that it submitted bogus data to win federal research grants.

Rabbi turns 500-year-old love songs into rap

This story originally aired on March 30, 2019Ladino is the language of Sephardic Jews whose ancestors were expelled from Spain during the Inquisition.Now,…

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