Alex Nester is an intern at the Washington Free Beacon and will begin a fellowship with The Public Interest in September. She graduated from Hillsdale College this spring with a bachelor of arts in economics.
Gun violence near the epicenter of anti-police protests in Portland doubled this year, newly updated Portland Police Bureau data show.
Welcome back to Campus Insanity, a weekly roundup of the craziest developments at our nation's 4,000-plus institutions of higher education. 
The San Francisco Unified School District will consider renaming one-third of its public schools, including one elementary school named after California Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein.
A record number of officers left the Seattle Police Department in September, according to department data released Thursday. 
A Black Lives Matter cofounder who trained as an activist under domestic terrorist Eric Mann has signed a contract with Warner Bros. Television group to produce children's programming and other content. 
House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) has raised more than $100 million in support of Republican efforts to take back the House this cycle, more than double what any Republican leader has raised in history.
A Democrat running for mayor of Vallejo, Calif., admitted to serving prison time for domestic violence charges, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Tuesday. 
The National Latino Officers Association criticized New York City mayor Bill de Blasio (D.) and police commissioner Dermot Shea for undermining minority cops after the highest-ranking Hispanic police officer announced his retirement Tuesday. 
The number of shooting victims and incidents in New York City has nearly doubled this year compared to 2019, according to the latest NYPD crime data.
Two confirmed cases of coronavirus were traced to campaign events for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in Minnesota.
