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1 month ago | 
georgetownvoice.com | Sydney Carroll |Katie Doran |Franziska Wild |Cassidy Jensen
Department of Homeland Security agents arrested Dr. Badar Khan Suri, a researcher at Georgetown, outside his home in Rosslyn, Virginia on Monday night, according to reporting by Politico. Khan Suri is an Indian national, and postdoctoral fellow at the Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. He was lawfully in the United States through a student visa, according to a university spokesperson.
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2 months ago | 
georgetownvoice.com | Sydney Carroll |Katie Doran |Elizabeth Foster |Sarah Watson
In September, Anissa Nanavati (SFS ’26) interviewed for an internship with the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) private sector engagement hub. In November, Nanavati received a tentative offer for the job. She was thrilled. “I was very happy, because it basically ticked off all my boxes on something that I wanted to do, and also actually really gave me the opportunity to help people,” Nanavati said.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Katie Doran |Samantha Monteiro |Roman Peregrino |Kevin Huggard
Georgetown students gathered at events on campus and across D.C. to observe Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration on Jan. 20. Freezing temperatures moved the official ceremony indoors to the Capitol Rotunda rather than outdoors on the National Mall, keeping many ticketed guests from attending the ceremony in person. While some Georgetown students lined up with thousands of others for the modified inaugural parade in Capital One Arena, others watched the ceremony at events on campus.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Katie Doran |Andrew Granville |Skyler Coffey |Annemarie Cuccia
News More than eight inches of snow fell in the Georgetown neighborhood beginning early Monday. Campus remains quiet tonight, with a few passerby’s walking dogs and students returning for the start of classes.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Izzy Wagener |Katie Doran |Annemarie Cuccia |Rachel Cohen
More than eight inches of snow fell in the Georgetown neighborhood beginning early Monday. Campus remains quiet tonight, with a few passerby’s walking dogs and students returning for the start of classes.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Sydney Carroll |Katie Doran |Emily Stephens |Jack Townsend
Hundreds of transgender activists and allies rallied outside the Supreme Court on Dec. 4 as justices heard arguments in U.S. v. Skrmetti, a case challenging Tennessee’s law banning gender-affirming care for minors. The rally, titled “Freedom to Be Ourselves,” was hosted by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Lambda Legal, two of the organizations that filed the case against the state of Tennessee, and its Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Katie Doran
On the campaign trail, Trump promised to “take over” the city and “make our capital beautiful again.”That message, and Trump’s focus on D.C., does not inspire confidence for a capital city that is overwhelmingly Democratic. Without D.C. statehood, the incoming Republican trifecta—a combination of a Republican president, House of Representatives, and Senate—will have broad powers to influence D.C.’s local affairs.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Sydney Carroll |Katie Doran |Elizabeth Foster |Noah Telerski
Several hundred protesters gathered on the streets of D.C. in response to President Donald Trump’s reelection, on Nov. 9. The “Time to Resist” rally came only a week after 10,000 people assembled for another Women’s March in anticipation of the election. Protesters met on Massachusetts Ave. outside the headquarters of the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank behind Project 2025.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Katie Doran |Sarah Watson |John Woolley
For 51 years, D.C. has elected its own mayor and city council to manage local affairs. But in the last five decades, residents have not settled for the limited self-government that came with so-called “home rule.” What D.C. really wants, advocates say, is to become the 51st state.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
georgetownvoice.com | Katie Doran |Imani Liburd
Four years ago, in the face of the Jan. 6 insurrection, the D.C. government failed to protect the District’s unhoused population from the heightened threat of political violence. As a result, unhoused residents faced forcible displacement and the disruption of access to food and other resources, in addition to incidents of verbal and physical harassment.
