A 47-year-old MIT professor has died after being shot in his Brookline home Monday night, according to law enforcement officials. Officers from the Massachusetts State Police and Brookline Police ...

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During his remarks at the American Business Forum in Miami earlier this month, Donald Trump tried to defend his renaming of the "Gulf of Mexico" to the "Gulf of America," ignorantly claiming that the ...

This video features a fun street challenge where people are asked basic geography questions with some surprising results. It captures humor, spontaneous reactions, and moments of curiosity while ...

President Trump bungled basic geography on Wednesday, confusing South Africa with South America during a rant about communism. The 79-year-old president said he sympathized with the citizens of Miami ...

SAN ANTONIO – Five staff members have left Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones’ office in less than five months — some of them within days. And whatever may be behind the turnover, a political science expert says ...

Turkey is about as far from Reno as one can get, situated on the other side of the world, but for one researcher, it’s just as much home as Reno is. Jessie Clark, an associate professor in the ...

UC Santa Barbara faculty members Anna Trugman and Gen Li have earned prestigious early-career awards from the American Geophysical Union (AGU). Trugman has earned AGU’s 2025 James B. Macelwane Medal.

Last week Johnathan Bascom traveled 7,500 miles southeast and arrived back in East Africa. “Fewer and fewer geographers focus on sub-Saharan Africa,” said Bascom, a longtime geography professor at ...

Economist Matthias Doepke once believed the U.S. was the pinnacle of academia: open, diverse, global. He immigrated to Chicago from Germany to pursue his doctorate, and most of his classmates were ...