The Board of Regents of the University of Colorado approved a measure on Thursday that calls for hiring a nonpartisan group to conduct a “climate survey” on all of the system’s campuses to help determine whether the university respects political diversity, The Daily Camera reported.
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As the Supreme Court considers overturning California’s ban on same-sex marriage, gay people await a ruling that could change their lives. But the case has already transformed one gay man: Ken Mehlman, the once-closeted Republican operative who orchestrated President George W. Bush’s 2004 re-election on a platform that included opposition to same-sex marriage.
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Conservatives are crying foul over a bill that would allow transgender students to use the bathrooms and locker rooms of the gender they identify with, rather than the sex they were born into.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s eagerly awaited decisions on same-sex marriage, affirmative action and voting rights will have to wait until next week, as the justices finished this week’s public session with three rulings of much more limited interest.
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A controversial Christian ministry that was devoted to changing people “affected by homosexuality” had become “imprisoned” by its own world view and judgment against the gay community and had to close, according to a statement posted on the ministry’s website.
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WASHINGTON — Congressional budget analysts, providing a positive economic assessment of proposed immigration law changes, said Tuesday that legislation to overhaul the nation’s immigration system would cut close to $1 trillion from the federal deficit over the next two decades and lead to more than 10 million new legal residents in the country.
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In fall 2007, Danielle Powell enrolled in Grace University in Omaha, Neb., to pursue a degree in psychology. She chose to study at Grace, a Christian college, because her older sister lived in Omaha and she was “offered generous scholarships.” Powell played on the women’s volleyball team and did well in school.
As the Congressional Budget Office finds that newly legal immigrants would generate more than enough money to offset the bill’s costs, senators’ differences on border security seem to narrow.
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The Vietnamese cultural district in Orange County — the largest outside Vietnam — began as a home for refugees. Now the second generation has taken charge.
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Any difference can set schoolchildren apart from their peers and potentially make them a target for bullying. But a severe food allergy is a unique vulnerability: It takes only one lunch or cupcake birthday party for other children to know which classmates cannot eat nuts, eggs, milk or even a trace of wheat. It can