In The News: College of Liberal Arts

While taking their husband's surname was once the norm, women are increasingly choosing to keep their maiden name after marriage.
Once upon a time it was considered custom for women to take their husband’s name after marrying.
Visiting my family in the Midwest over Thanksgiving, I returned to a topic that’s become very familiar ever since I became engaged a little more than a year ago: Whether I plan to change my last name after I get married.

President Donald Trump’s top budget man, Mick Mulvaney, solved a mystery Tuesday. Asked who put $120 million into Trump’s spending plan to restart licensing for a Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository and other interim storage, Mulvaney said he did.

Oct. 8, 10:03 p.m. “Sweet dreams beautiful girls,” Anna Kopp wrote in a Facebook message to four women with whom she fled the storm of bullets that rained down over the Route 91 Harvest festival a week earlier.

It’s been more than two weeks since a shooter killed 58 people and wounded 546 others at a country music concert outside Mandalay Bay.

“You never think it’ll happen to you. You see these horrific events on TV and try to imagine how you would react, or how you would survive, or IF you would survive,” wrote Brianna Hicks, a 22-year-old local who was at the Route 91 Harvest festival on Oct. 1 when bullets tore into the crowd.
Arguments may rage over the authenticity of certain dishes but there is no doubt about the impression our spicy cuisine has made on the US

After violence pierces U.S. cities and towns, Americans come together. Later politics can drive them apart.

The creators of a remembrance garden in north Las Vegas have invited people to leave messages and reflect as the city tries to process its grief.
Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock killed Sunday 58 people and injured nearly 500 others. But he has also traumatized a whole city, which now seeks to relieve his anguish.
A chain of solidarity was formed to help people affected by the massacre.