Arguments Heard in Federal Challenge of Virginia’s Same-Sex Marriage Ban
Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriage was challenged in federal court on
Behind Retreat on Immigration, a Complicated Political Interplay
WASHINGTON — Speaker John A. Boehner would sorely like to help engineer an overhaul of immigration policy to bolster his legacy, help his party politically and address a difficult social and economic problem. He just cannot seem to persuade other Republicans, who see the immigration debate as a
Ruling Could Be Near on Fisher v. Texas
The case of Abigail Fisher, a Texas woman who sued the state’s flagship university, the University of Texas at Austin, for racial discrimination in
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Venice’s famed tolerance is being tested by the homeless
As the beach neighborhood continues to gentrify, friction between traditional residents and a growing number of homeless is increasing.
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Displaced by trendy coffee shops and rising rents, many gang members have been forced out of Echo Park, returning to their old turf on weekends. A new injunction targets those who are left.
In Talk of Economy, Obama Turns to ‘Opportunity’ Over ‘Inequality’
WASHINGTON — Like so many political fights, the one between President Obama and Republicans over income inequality has become a battle over language. Is it about inequality of incomes or of opportunity? On this question, the president and his party have moved in Republicans’ — and voters’ — direction.
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Why Nobody Intervened
When authorities in November charged a group of white students at San Jose State University with months of tormenting their black suitemate, many at the institution and elsewhere asked: How could this have gone on for so long?
‘Triple Package,’ Ethnicity and Success
Many people first learned about Amy Chua, a law professor at Yale University, from her 2011 op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, which ran with the headline “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior.”
UCLA Police Dept. Clears Officers Accused of Excessive Force
The University of California at Los Angeles’s police department has cleared two officers who were accused by an African-American judge of racial profiling and using excessive force after he was stopped last year for not wearing a seat belt.
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San Jose State Did ‘Everything It Could’ in Racial Bullying Case, Report Says
An independent investigator’s report on San Jose State University’s handling of a racially charged case in which a black student was bullied for weeks by his white roommates has found that the university acted quickly and did “everything it could” once it learned of the alleged harassment, the San Jose Mercury News reported.
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