By Todd C. Frankel @ WashingtonPost.com, Nov. 9

By Masha Gessen @ NewYorker.com, Nov. 8

A new sculpture project thoughtfully grapples with the school’s participation in slavery.

By Jacoba Urist @ TheAtlantic.com, Nov. 9

By Tina Nuygen @ The Hive @ VanityFair.com, Nov. 9

As Trump’s North Korean saber-rattling continues Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Bob Corker looks to curtail his brinkmanship.

Of note that The Hive has a created a news category titled "The Senate Rebellion."

By Dan Diamond @ Politico.com, Nov. 8

Why the health landscape might change more than we imagine.

By Sarah Ellison @ The Hive @ VanityFair.com, Nov. 6

The news that 21st Century Fox may be selling many of its assets to Disney may end one of the great dynastic parlor games in media history.

By Reid Wilson @ TheHill.com, Nov. 7, 11:17 pm

By Max Greenwood @ TheHill.com, Nov. 7, 11:41 p.m

Hoboken, N.J. City Councilman Ravi Bhalla won the city's mayoral race on Tuesday, making him the first Sikh mayor in the state's history, The Jersey Journal reported.

By Brandon Carter @ TheHill.com, Nov. 8, 12:40 am

The city of St. Paul, Minn., has elected its first African American mayor in Melvin Carter.

By Brandon Carter @ TheHill.com, Nov. 7, 11:46 pm

Charlotte, N.C., has elected its first female African American mayor in Democrat Vi Lyles, according to the Charlotte Observer.

Lyles won 58 percent of the votes over the Republican challenger, Kenny Smith [....]

By Peter Sullivan @ TheHill.com, Nov. 6

A record number of people signed up for ObamaCare in the first few days of open enrollment this year compared to the same period in previous years, several sources close to the process told The Hill.

By Sara Stefanini @ Politico.com, Nov. 7

BONN, Germany — Syria announced today it will join the Paris climate agreement, leaving the U.S. as the only country outside the international accord.

The Syrian delegation announced it would ratify the 197-party agreement during a plenary meeting on the second day of the U.N.’s two-week COP23 climate summit, hosted by Fiji in Germany [....]

By Stef W. Kight @ Axios.com, Nov. 7

As the world’s moneyed princes, dictators and oligarchs look for more places to park their billions, mountains of money may be coming to Silicon Valley.

By Farhad Manjoo @ NYTimes.com, Nov. 6

We need to talk about the tsunami of questionable money crashing into the tech industry.

By Robert Samuels @ WashingtonPost.com, Nov. 6

NORMAN, Okla. — The newest state legislator in Oklahoma leaned over his bathroom sink, teasing his tousled hair to get that John F. Kennedy bouffant. The blue suit came from J.C. Penney and fit snugly [....] Jacob Rosecrants, a 39-year-old single father [.....]

By Greg Jaffe @ WashingtonPost.com, Nov. 5

PETERS TOWNSHIP, Pa. — The new Swedish ambassador to the United States was wedged into the back seat of a Honda Civic headed south out of Pittsburgh in search of some true-believing, climate-change-denying, anti-free-trade, “America first” Trump voters.

Excerpt from 26 dead in Texas church shooting, with children among the victims

By Matt Pearce & John Savage @ from Sutherland Springs, TX for LATimes.com, Nov. 5

[....] Kelley was in the U.S. Air Force from 2010 to 2014 but left with a “bad conduct” discharge and was sentenced to 12 months’ confinement after he was convicted of assaulting his wife and their child, according to an Air Force representative.

By Michael Forsythe @ NYTimes.com, Nov. 5

By Dan Balz & Scott Clement @ WashingtonPost.com, 29 minutes ago

By Nicole Gallucci @ Mashable.com, Nov. 4

When a group of civil rights activists saw the mounting need in Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico following devastating hurricanes, they had an epiphany: It's on us. Unsatisfied with the speed in which disaster relief flowed into ravaged areas, they made a choice. They weren't going to wait for the government or established nonprofits to respond. They would do it themselves. But how?