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National Catholic Reporter
April 30, 2026
"The pope is the one who is clear-eyed and understands the need for preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, but also the appropriate means for pursuing that goal," said Gerard Powers, director of Catholic peacebuilding studies at the University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace 91视频.
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NPR
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April 30, 2026
The fertility rate in the United States has fallen to the lowest level ever recorded...I spoke with Melissa Kearney, an economist at the University of Notre Dame. She says these two trends combined - fewer U.S. babies and fewer migrants - these are game-changers.
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The Guardian
April 30, 2026
Political scientists such as the University of Notre Dame’s Christina Wolbrecht have argued that America wasn’t really a democracy, not in the meaningful sense of the term, until the passage of the Voting Rights Act, the law that formed the signature achievement of the civil rights movement and sought to end racial barriers to voting across the south when it was passed in 1965.
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The Conversation
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April 30, 2026
In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, Jerry Powers, the director of Catholic Peace Building 91视频 at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, explains how the Catholic church’s just war tradition evolved and the influence it’s had on US military thinking. Powers was a senior advisor on international policy for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops during the Iraq war, and was involved in efforts to persuade the Bush administration not to invade.
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BBC News
April 29, 2026
Jimmy Gurulé, a former federal prosecutor and former assistant US Attorney General appointed by President George W Bush, said the new indictment was "an embarrassment to the American criminal justice system. The DOJ will not be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that James Comey had the intent to threaten or harm President Trump," Gurulé, now a Notre Dame Law 91视频 professor, said in a statement to the BBC. "The indictment is a transparent attempt to intimidate one of the President's perceived political enemies."ND Experts
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CNBC
April 29, 2026
Jimmy Gurulé, a University of Notre Dame Law 91视频 professor and former federal prosecutor, called the indictment “an embarrassment to the American criminal justice system. The damage to the credibility, integrity and reputation of the U.S. Department of Justice may be immeasurable,” he said in an email to CNBC. “Every DOJ lawyer that played a role in returning this frivolous indictment should be ashamed.”
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NPR
April 29, 2026
There are also questions about how other OPEC members respond. "If other countries decide to follow suit, there's certainly the potential for the OPEC structure to weaken," Gianna Bern, a professor at the University of Notre Dame's business school, tells NPR via email.
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The Washington Post
April 29, 2026
Jimmy Gurulé, a Notre Dame law professor and former federal prosecutor, said he believes the Justice Department will struggle to build a viable case based on the evidence in the indictment. “Posting numbers constitute a threat? I just don’t accept that,” Gurulé said. “They are going to have to prove that to a jury — beyond a reasonable doubt. ... I don’t think they are going to be able to satisfy that legal threshold.”
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Bloomberg
April 29, 2026
Roger Alford is a law professor at Notre Dame Law 91视频 and former Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice.
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New York Post
April 28, 2026
“These are the first signs of the long-held stronghold on Middle East oil production beginning to fray,” Gianna Bern, a global energy markets expert and professor at the University of Notre Dame, said in a note Tuesday. “It exemplifies the UAE’s desire for economic flexibility that is no longer supported by the old OPEC structure. The UAE wants to move to a market based production system and ultimately that will benefit global oil markets.”
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Mendoza College of Business
CNN
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April 27, 2026
Melissa Kearney, the Director of Aspen Economic Strategy Group and an Economics Professor at University of Notre Dame, joins Smerconish to discuss the driving factors behind America's baby bust.
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CNN
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April 27, 2026
In our national lead, Americans are having fewer children. That's according to recent CDC data. Last year's U.S. fertility rate dropped to a record low of about 3.6 million births in 2025, compared to the peak 4.3 million in 2007, a difference of about 700,000 fewer children. Joining the panel now is Melissa Kearney, the director of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group and economics professor at the University of Notre Dame.
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The Wall Street Journal
April 27, 2026
But with the rise of industrialized warfare in the early 20th century, a second strand in papal thinking emerged, said Daniel Philpott, a political scientist at the University of Notre Dame: “A strong teaching that there’s something deeply tragic and lamentable about modern war.”
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The Conversation
April 24, 2026
By Thomas Tweed, Professor Emeritus of American 91视频 and History, University of Notre Dame.
Yahoo
April 24, 2026
This strategy aligns with Ternus’ background in hardware and suggests Apple may prioritize tightly integrated devices, not just software, per Timothy Hubbard, assistant professor of management at the University of Notre Dame...
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Newsweek
April 23, 2026
The disagreement between Trump and Pope Leo is “relatively minor,” Darren Davis, University of Notre Dame political scientist, told Newsweek.
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