WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Monday injected the Obama administration into the emotional and politicized debate over the future of state same-sex marriage bans, declaring in an interview that state attorneys general are not obligated to defend laws that they
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A brochure for the University
MIAMI ― State lawmakers could approve a bill this session allowing qualified Florida students to pay in-state college tuition even if they are in the country
A relatively strong local economy in Los Angeles, which is stoking the fortunes of its higher-income residents, is helping boost income disparity in the city, the Brookings Institution study shows.
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OXFORD, Miss. — The University of Mississippi said Friday that students could face criminal charges for placing a noose on a statue honoring the college’s first black student, and a fraternity announced that it had expelled three men because of the incident…
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The rise of Rand Paul, a libertarian who is a U.S. senator from Kentucky and is talked about as a Republican presidential candidate, has drawn new attention to the views of a faculty member at Loyola University New Orleans who believes most civil rights laws were wrong, and that restaurants, hotels and employers should be
OXFORD, Miss. — On the campus of the University of Mississippi, a few hundred yards from a monument honoring Confederate soldiers, a statue of the university’s first black student, who enrolled in 1962 amid rioting that left two people dead, stands as what administrators call a powerful symbol of progress.
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INDIO, Calif. — On Friday, Riverside County began its National Date Festival, an annual tribute to a local industry that began in the Middle East. The event, inspired by “One Thousand and One Nights,”
OXFORD, Miss. — The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Tuesday that it had joined the inquiry into an act of vandalism at the University of Mississippi, where a statue of the university’s first black student was found with a noose and a flag with the Confederate battle emblem.
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OXFORD, Miss. ― The FBI on Tuesday was helping investigate who tied a noose around the neck of a University of Mississippi statue of James Meredith, who,
in 1962, became the first Black student to enroll