A Pennsylvania judge on Wednesday refused to grant an injunction on a new voter identification law that Democrats say could harm President Obama’s re-election chances by unfairly targeting minorities, college students and others in a key swing state.
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LOS ANGELES — With their expectations soaring, young illegal immigrants across the country are preparing to apply for a temporary reprieve from deportation that the Obama administration is offering. For the first time, as many as 1.7 million of them could be allowed to work legally and live openly in this country without fear of
The Obama administration on Monday joined a long list of higher-education associations, civil-rights groups, and other organizations in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold race-conscious admission policies in a case involving the University of Texas at Austin.
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The University of California’s president, Mark G. Yudof, convened an advisory group to study the experiences of Jewish and Muslim students on six of the system’s campuses, and some of the resulting recommendations have now drawn the ire of students, faculty members, and alumni, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Students from minority racial and ethnic groups at colleges where minorities are underrepresented experience more stereotyping, harassment, and other forms of discrimination than those on campuses that are more diverse, according to a recent report from the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles.
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MILWAUKEE — The shooting rampage by an avowed white supremacist that killed six people at a suburban Sikh Temple near here came at a time of both growth and disarray in the supremacist movement.
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Law enforcement has pored through more than 100 leads following the shootings that left six people dead at a Sikh temple this week, trying to determine whether gunman Wade Michael Page acted alone or was part of a group bent on carrying out acts of neo-Nazi violence.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-sikh-temple-shooting-20120809,0,6891673.story
Anaheim officers have killed five people since Jan. 1. Police say the shootings are intertwined with the rise in violent, gang-related crimes.
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The hate-filled music subculture is gaining attention amid news that Wade Michael Page, the suspect in the deadly Wisconsin shooting, played in white power bands.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-hate-rock-20120808,0,7798877.story
The night before Susan and Rob allowed their son to go to preschool in a dress, they sent an e-mail to parents of his classmates. Alex, they wrote, “has been gender-fluid for as long as we can remember, and at the moment he is equally passionate about and identified with soccer players and princesses, superheroes