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Northwestern University has named a new dean for its Medill School of Journalism.The Evanston school says Indiana University journalism dean Bradley Hamm will succeed John Lavine.Hamm has been dean at Indiana's journalism school since 2005, where he created the country's first master's degree progra

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder broke the Obama administration’s silence on the legal justification for its decision to kill American-born al Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki yesterday.

Listen to this conversation on Eight Forty-Eight Suicide is the third-leading cause of death in adolescents. Gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual youth and especially vulnerable.

CHICAGO (AP) — A 22-year-old graduate from Northwestern University is among the 32 Rhodes Scholars.Sarah Smierciak says she was shocked to hear the good news.The awards announced early Sunday provide all expenses for study at Oxford University in England.

College students around Chicago are expected to walk out of their classes at 5 p.m. on Wednesday in a show of support for the Occupy Wall Street movement.

It is the rare CEO whose death prompts a public outpouring of grief and memories, but Apple co-founder Steve Jobs wasn’t the average head honcho in the corner office.

When Lee Gettler got married six weeks ago, he didn't realize that with the "I do" came a change in his testosterone levels.