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The West Los Angeles VA Medical Center is a nearly 400-acre campus whose onetime sole purpose was to house veterans, but some say it has lost sight of that mission. The Department of Veterans Affairs has been renting chunks of the land, mostly to enterprises that have nothing to do with helping veterans.

Sasse, a Republican U.S. senator from Nebraska, pledged not to be involved in partisan political activities as university president — a position he called "political celibacy."

Just 18 facilities were converted into Rural Emergency Hospitals so far. Advocates and lawmakers say tweaks to the law are needed to widen the reach and keep health care in rural communities.

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed legislation requiring The Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public classrooms. The ACLU said they will fight the law in court.

Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 took effect, African Americans had a hard time finding public attractions. But Silver Springs Paradise Park changed...

Tropical Storm Hanna — the earliest recorded “H” storm — developed late Thursday evening in the western Gulf of Mexico. Tropical Storm Warnings are in...

Stephen Carter's novel New England White centers on a prominent African-American family in a largely white New England college town. The thriller, which offers keen observations on race, focuses on two murders separated by 30 years.

In the period after the Civil War, former slaves were made promises of equality and citizenship by the federal government. Historian Eric Foner analyzes the fate of those promises in Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction.

Hundreds of Nigeria’s best and brightest young people attend universities around the world as part of that country’s Petroleum Technology Development…

Tony Award-winning theater, craft beer, and a chance to help fight crime and cancer are on tap this weekend on the First Coast.Friday, February 21 -…