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On March 17 NPR reported that the GOP-led House was helping “mentally incapacitated’ veterans get guns via the passage of the Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act.

Duke University psychiatry and behavioral science professor Jeffrey Swanson says Congress is right to repeal Barack Obama’s Social Security gun ban because it targets the “vulnerable” rather than the dangerous.

NEW YORK (AP) — Duke and North Carolina State were among the top 16 projected seeds the NCAA revealed Monday for the women’s basketball tournament in March, making them potential hosts in a state that’s lost several sports events because of a divisive law.

Josh Hart nudges out Kansas’ Frank Mason and Duke’s Luke Kennard as the best major college player in America according to Value Add Basketball.

The Duke University Student Senate has unanimously passed a resolution demanding “sanctuary campus” policies which would create a “safe space” for illegal immigrants, shielding them from federal immigration law.

During warmups before Saturday’s game against Duke University, University of Maine basketball team members wore America East conference t-shirts with the logo in rainbow colors to show solidarity with the gay community and protest North Carolina’s HB2 law.

Hard work pays off. Just ask Duke football walk-on Danny Doyle. During a team meeting this week, the junior defensive end learned in front of teammates that he was the new recipient of a football scholarship after head coach David Cutcliffe

Muslim-American terror in 2015 reached its highest point since the September 11, 2001 attacks against America, the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security (TCTHS) said in a report released Tuesday, documenting that 81 Muslim-Americans were associated with terror plots in the past year.

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On October 28, actress Julianne Moore claimed gun control should be pursued in the same way that “car safety” laws pertaining to seat belts and drunk driving were pursued in days gone by. Moore recalled a time when driving drunk

Like a sledge hammer falling on a glass table, Duke Researcher Chris Conover has dropped scholarly methods and results on the anti-gun rhetoric regarding gun ownership versus car ownership to show that owning a car is “80 percent” riskier than owning a gun, as it relates to the lives of others.

A professor from Duke University is defiant in the face of charges of racism saying that the country needs a more honest discussion about racism.

NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” took on the media coverage and participants in March Madness in their opening sketch. The sketch begins with commentator Charles Barkley admitting he doesn’t really like college basketball, but quickly turns to the teams as Duke

In an extensive interview with Business Insider, Miriam Weeks, better known as Duke University porn star Belle Knox, outlined the work she’s doing for her campus’s libertarian movement, as well as how her own political ideology has helped her career in adult entertainment.

It all started when a University alumnus made a $3 million dollar donation to fund the position of Director of Islamic Studies at Duke University. Bettye Martin Musham, who gifted the Islamic Studies Center with the vast sum of money, said that she was convinced that it was the right thing to do after hearing a lecture on the meaning of jihad. Musham said that she and her husband would later become “hooked with the importance of Islam.”