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Essie’s Original Hot Dog Shop, known around Oakland as The O, has closed its doors for good, a longtime manager confirmed Sunday.
Mihrigul Tursun tearfully recalled on Tuesday the torture she suffered in the Uyghur Muslim concentration camps in Xinjiang, China. “I asked why I was in prison. I asked why I was tortured,” Tursun ...
Due to immoral financial practices and the monstrous amount of money held by billionaires, no person with a billion dollars can be ethical.
Pitt Chancellor Patrick Gallagher will step down from his position in summer 2023, the University announced Thursday morning.
Climate change is at the center of everyone’s attention nowadays, with California’s sky burning orange. One solution is dominating the conversation of fixing our planet’s climate — green energy. Green ...
If there were any silver linings during the COVID-19 pandemic, it was the attention it brought to the importance of mental health, especially within the United States. I don’t personally know any ...
The Oct. 27, 2018, massacre of 11 Jewish congregants at the Tree of Life building — in the heart of Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood and just under two miles from the Pitt campus — not only had ...
Pittsburgh is often considered one of the premier sports cities in America — laden with a prosperous history of baseball, football and hockey championships. But the city was once home to a ...
There’s not necessarily a “natural moment” to announce you're stepping down, according to Pitt Chancellor Patrick Gallagher.
Grushecky remembers the concert as monumental for the city, as well as Oakland. It was one night out of more than two decades of a thriving music scene in Oakland that brought in a diverse array ...
Nadiya Greaser has seen four movies, a TV series and a musical based on Jane Austen's "Emma" — and she's ranking them all.
Five Greek life chapters — Chi Omega, Kappa Delta, Pi Kappa Alpha, Alpha Tau Omega and Sigma Phi Epsilon — were placed on “Interim Suspension of Registration” on Wednesday. The two sororities and ...