He could have been the main character in one of the many books stacked wall to wall in his Parisian book store. George Whitman , 98, lived a large life — even though most of it from 1948 onwards, was spent in a tiny store across the river from the Notre Dame. Whitman, the owner of Shakespeare and Company bookstore, died in his apartment above the store Wednesday morning. Read full article > >

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Budget pressures must not limit spending such that the military is unable to defend American interests, the defense secretary told graduates at Notre Dame.

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PARIS — France’s new ban on Islamic face veils was met with a burst of defiance Monday, as several women appeared veiled in front of Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral and two were detained for taking part in an unauthorized protest.

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If Notre Dame and Texas A&M could invest heavily in women’s sports, it would seem to be a better gender-equity metric than how many seats were left empty this Final Four.

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The onetime Notre Dame defensive tackle sat in an underground auditorium of the U.S. Capitol, discomfited. Mike Kelly had come to Congress to change the ways of Washington. But first he had to be schooled in them.

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Declan Sullivan, a 20-year-old Notre Dame student, fell to his death on Wednesday when the tower he was standing on collapsed while he was filming the school’s football practice. Shortly before he fell, he tweeted about being on the tower, “Holy…

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Tens of thousands of Roman Catholic worshippers were evacuated from Lourdes in southwest France after a bomb threat, officials with the Notre Dame de Lourdes confirmed Sunday.

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