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Anonymous

Anonymous: 'Never forgive, never forget. Expect us.'

The group referred to as Anonymous downed the Central Intelligence Agency's website last week, adding it to the list of banks, copyright holders, private interests and other government agencies whose sites have become victim to the loosely structured "hacktivist" organization.

TaLK DePaul alum teaches and learns in South Korea

Flor Sigaran's love for South Korea comes out in the inflections in her voice. After graduating from DePaul in 2010, Sigaran left in August to go teach English to children in South Korea.

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Gaza agreement

West bank, Gaza form unity government

Palestinian Authority President and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas struck a breakthrough reconciliation with rival Islamist group Hamas in Qatar last Monday, which will place Abbas as the head of an interim unity government to prepare for elections in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

Eric Cantor

Congress bans members from insider trading

Congress is exempt from certain laws and regulations that other Americans must follow. Congress members are protected from laws that make insider trading illegal to anyone in the country, including members of the Executive and Judicial branches.

Pajamas graphic

Politicians, professors don’t go bananas for pajamas

Although wearing pajamas while running a few errands in the morning is common, Caddo Parrish District 3 Commissioner Michael Williams, from Louisiana, refuses to understand this phenomenon. While recently taking a trip to Wal-Mart, Williams saw a man wearing pajama pants that easily revealed the man's private parts.

European Union oil Iran

European Union oil embargo looms over a defiant Iran

The European Union unanimously passed an oil embargo on Iran and halted all dealings with the Iranian Central Bank Jan. 23. This comes after the United States passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDA) at the end of last year.

Income inequality

America's perceptions of class conflict on the rise

What if DePaul University decided to cancel the debts of a limited number of students, as a one-time offer? A 375-year-old bank in France has decided to do just that. Crédit Municipal de Paris is cancelling the debts of 3,500 customers who owed 150 euros ($190) or less.

Iran nuclear weapons

Pressure, sanctions loom over Iran's nuclear program

Iran has faced increasing international pressure over its uranium enrichment program in an underground bunker at a Fodor Plant near Qom. The U.S. and many other countries are pushing for increased sanctions, including a possible sanction against oil.

GPS tracking Supreme Court

Supreme Court: unwarranted GPS trackers violate rights

The Supreme Court ruled last week that the use of unwarranted GPS trackers in police investigations is a violation of the Fourth Amendment.

President Barack Obama State of the Union

Obama calls for end to inequality in State of the Union address

(AP) President Barack Obama delivered an election-year broadside to Republicans: Game on. The GOP, from Congress to the campaign trail, signaled it's ready for the fight.

SOPA PIPA protest

SOPA/PIPA bills rejected

An anti-piracy bill that was expected to pass easily through the committees of the House of Representatives is now dead after an online petition to Congress collected nearly seven million signatures.

Haiti factory

Nobel laurate to students: 10k for Haiti business

In response to a challenge by Nobel prize winner Muhammad Yunus, DePaul has started a competition for students that will require them to combine two of the university's greatest assets: Vincentian values and business innovation.

Newt Gingrich

Gingrich wins South Carolina primary

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich stormed to an upset win in the South Carolina primary Saturday night, dealing a sharp setback to former front-runner Mitt Romney and suddenly scrambling the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

Rick Perry

Rick Perry drops out of GOP race

Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination and endorsed Newt Gingrich, adding a fresh layer of unpredictability to the campaign two days before the South Carolina primary.

Anger politics graphic

G8/NATO summits, security could cost up to $65 million

On May 19, the world's most powerful leaders will gather in Chicago for two crucial diplomatic summits. Every year the G-8 and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) hold meetings in various international locations, but this is only the second time in history that both summits are being held simultaneously in the same city.

Harry Burkhart Los Angeles arson

As L.A. burns, Chicago watches: arson suspect arrested

On Monday, Jan. 2, a 24-year-old man named Harry Burkhart was arrested in connection with multiple counts of arson in Los Angeles. Burkhart was a resident of Hollywood and a German national who has repeatedly claimed to officials that he is from Frankfurt.

Obama defense

2012 Defense Act 'detainment policies without due process' could apply to Americans, groups say

What is usually a routine piece of legislation has turned into a controversy between civil rights groups and the U.S. government. President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act for 2012, and some of its provisions have proven unseemly to some Americans.

Cost, security, concerns for upcoming summits in Chicago

Chicago is getting underway on plans for the G8 and NATO Summits that will be held in McCormick Place this May. It will be the first time since 1977, when the events took place in London, that the two events are being held in the same city.

Iraq withdrawl

Last troops exit Iraq in subdued end to 9-year war

Outside it was pitch dark. The six American soldiers couldn't see much of the desert landscape streaming by outside the small windows of their armored vehicle. They were hushed and exhausted from an all-night drive - part of the last convoy of U.S. troops to leave Iraq during the final moment of a nearly nine-year war.

Kim Jong Il

Officials: US weighs NKorea policy after Kim death

The Obama administration is warily watching developments on the Korean peninsula after the death of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il and may postpone decisions on re-engaging the reclusive country in nuclear talks and providing it with food aid, U.S. officials said Sunday.

Kim Jong Il

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, 69, has died

Kim Jong Il, North Korea's mercurial and enigmatic leader whose iron rule and nuclear ambitions for his isolated communist nation dominated world security fears for more than a decade, has died. He was 69.

Kim Jong Il

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, 69, dies of heart failure

Kim Jong Il, North Korea's mercurial and enigmatic longtime leader, has died of heart failure. He was 69.

North Korea farmer

US aid a step toward Korea nuke talks

The United States is poised to announce a significant donation of food aid to North Korea this week, the first concrete accomplishment after months of behind-the-scenes diplomatic contacts between the two wartime enemies. An agreement by North Korea to suspend its controversial uranium enrichment program will likely follow within days.

Virginia Tech

Shootings occur at Virginia Tech after hearing

Soon after Virginia Tech officials at a hearing defended actions taken to notify the campus as a 2007 shooting rampage unfolded, the university on Thursday issued a series of warnings about gunfire on its campus five hours away.

Virginia Tech Shooting

Virginia Tech put on lockdown after police officer, 1 other killed in campus shooting

Virginia Tech officials say a police officer and another person have been shot and killed on the school's campus.

World News Teaser

The economics of moving after college

America has long been known as a cultural melting pot. It is made up of a variety of diverse landscapes, climates and cities. With Atlantic and Pacific coasts, Midwest, South and Northwest, there seems to be something that caters to every taste. Our environment shapes our lives and defines us whether we want it to or not.

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Lord's Resistance Army Uganda

Obama sends 100 military advisors to fight LRA

In recent weeks, President Obama announced he would be sending 100 military advisors into Uganda. The personnel will be on the ground to "provide assistance to regional forces that are working toward the removal of Joseph Kony from the battlefield," Obama wrote recently in a letter addressed to House Speaker John Boehner.

Google logo

Censorship across the globe: Google releases new report

Once again, Google is taking strides previously unseen in the technological world. The company released a "transparency report" to detail government use of Google, giving world citizens the opportunity to learn more about their leaders' place in the online universe.

7 billion people worldwide

Various '7 billionth' babies celebrated worldwide

She came into the world at two minutes before midnight, a tiny, wrinkled girl born into a struggling Manila family. On Monday, she became a symbol of the world's population reaching 7 billion people and all the worries that entails for the planet's future.

Rome riot burning car

Riots hit Europe as students study abroad

Thick, black smoke was billowing up to the sky, helicopters hovering over the buildings, looking down to what was happening in the streets. That was the day Occupy Wall Street went global, but in Italy's capital, the movement was overtaken by riots incited by a group of anarchists in black shirts and masks, referred to as "The Black Bloc."

Libya celebration

Celebrations mark Gaddafi's death as Libyans rebuild a new democracy

Muammar Gaddafi, a man who singlehandedly ruled Libya for 42 years, died of gunshot wounds Thursday in an attempt to flee his hometown of Sirte and evade capture by Libya's revolutionary forces.

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