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Medill and SESP junior Anavi Prakash will be The Daily Northwestern’s next editor in chief, the paper’s publisher announced Monday. A current managing editor, Prakash previously served as city editor, multimedia managing editor, development & recruitment editor and audio editor for the paper. “It’s always just really exciting because I get to see all of...

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After an early-season stumble, Northwestern rebounded at the Hub City Invitational, going 4-0 with two victories apiece over Cornell and Boston College as its win streak reached five. Offensive production and late rallies were the keys to victory in the Wildcats’ (5-2, 0-0 Big Ten) successful outings in Spartanburg, South Carolina.  In their first game...

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Northwestern picked up its seventh win of the season against DePaul on Sunday as it defeated the Blue Demons 6-1. The Wildcats (7-4, 0-0 Big Ten) have now won two matches in a row since their four-match losing streak. In doubles, sophomore Erica Jessel and freshman Margot Phanthala won their match at the No. 2...

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Northwestern will need to win out and receive help to qualify for the Big Ten Tournament that starts March 4. Despite only having two games left on the schedule, five games involving seven Big Ten teams need to go the Wildcats’ way for the team to sneak into the tournament as the 15th seed. Four...

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Welcome to The Daily’s photo blog: Captured. This is a space for The Daily’s photographers to share their best work, including photos from weekend performances and events around the community. You can contact the photo editor by emailing photo@dailynorthwestern.com. Northwestern’s women’s basketball extended their losing streak to nine games Sunday, as the Wildcats (8-19, 2-14...

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Scholars gathered at the first Indigenous research presentation event at Northwestern on Saturday, hosted by Research for Indigenous Social Action and Equity Center and the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research. The six-hour event, “Celebrating Emerging Indigenous Research and Knowledge,” featured fifteen presentations on scholars’ academic research pertaining to Indigenous knowledge, history and heritage....

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Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre hosted its third annual “That Art Thing We Do” panel with Black Evanston artists at the Noyes Cultural Arts Center on Saturday. The event invited vocalist and author Dejah Gomez, textile artist and writer Melissa Blount and designer and letterpress printer Ben Blount to explore drawing inspiration and support from the Evanston community. ...

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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration started Operation Metro Surge in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area of Minnesota in December 2025 as part of its deportation agenda. In January, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent killed Renee Good, a couple of weeks before two Customs and Border Protection agents killed Alex Pretti, both U.S. citizens. After weeks...

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Students shared their experiences and reflections on the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and its ongoing impacts, as part of a Friday panel hosted by Northwestern’s Ukrainian Club at the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs. The conflict began Feb. 24, 2022. Four days before its fourth anniversary this Tuesday, the students discussed life before,...

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In Today’s Crossword, 1-Down, 5-Letters: A battle to remember

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The Daily Northwestern brought home 31 awards at the Illinois College Press Association’s annual convention in Chicago on Saturday. The organization’s conference took place Friday and Saturday. At the awards luncheon Saturday afternoon, The Daily received six first-place awards, 10 second-place awards, seven third-place awards and eight honorable mentions in both the Open and Large...

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At first glance, “AQUÍ O ALLÁ: a circus story” is a clown show. Red-nosed actors perform gravity-defying acrobatics, other performers ride unicycles and the word ‘circus’ in the title is certainly appropriate. But on a deeper level, the production has immense artistic value. The show is the Actors Gymnasium’s Winter Circus and is directed by...

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Northwestern won its third Central Collegiate Fencing Conference team championship Saturday, followed by sophomore foilist Daphne Chan taking home an individual conference title Sunday. The team title was NU’s first since 2024 after Ohio State won the title last year. The ’Cats also shared the inaugural 2021 title with OSU. The No. 6 ’Cats defeated...

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Midway through “Black and Highly Flavored” — a hysterical revue featuring seasoned Black Second City alumni that opened Feb. 5 — a substitute teacher walks into a classroom filled with rowdy students. Stone-faced, he tells them: “I just got an email that DEI needs to D-I-E.”  The sketch quickly devolves into chaos. Instead of learning...

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After getting its first taste of ranked competition last weekend, Northwestern headed to Fayetteville, Ark. for a five-game set with No. 8 Arkansas and Southeast Missouri. The Wildcats (6-9, 0-0 Big Ten) went 2-3, losing a trio of games against the No. 8-ranked Razorbacks (13-1, 0-0 SEC). NU experienced two ends of possible results, as...

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This review contains spoilers. The adage goes, “money can’t buy happiness.” Director John Patton Ford’s “How to Make a Killing” makes a tremendous attempt to debunk this piece of sage advice. While entertaining, the film struggles to achieve its grandiose goal primarily due to its one-dimensional characters and overly ambitious theme. The film follows Becket...

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Following the global success of Baz Luhrmann’s 2022 biopic “Elvis” starring Austin Butler, the Australian filmmaker has jumped on yet another opportunity to bring America’s King of Rock ‘n’ Roll back to theaters.   Constructed from over 50 years of previously unseen footage from Elvis Presley’s Las Vegas residency, “EPiC” serves as America’s brand new concert...

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After an almost 11-year hiatus, star of Disney Channel’s “Lizzie McGuire,” Hilary Duff returned Feb. 20 with her sixth studio album, “luck… or something.” Duff doesn’t have much newfound maturity to compensate for her decade away in this new record. While she is now 38 years old, the album’s songwriting is indistinguishable from her teenage...

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Medill School of Journalism’s Cause Marketing Initiative held its annual kick-off party Friday, marking the first time the 2026 cohort of Integrated Marketing Communications graduate students met with their nonprofit partners.  CMI is a student-run committee that partners with organizations in the Chicago area. Since 2008, the program has offered pro-bono marketing services to help...

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Northwestern’s Big Ten Tournament chances have slipped further out of reach after a 92-65 loss to Illinois Sunday. The Wildcats (8-19, 2-14 Big Ten) entered the home matchup against the Fighting Illini (19-8, 9-7 Big Ten) with the chance to avenge a tight 74-71 loss that came down to the final buzzer in January. Instead,...

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