The University of Pittsburgh has received about 100 bomb threats in the last few months, some written on the stalls in restrooms on the main campus and others e-mailed to Pittsburgh newspapers. A group calling itself the Threateners recently claimed responsibility for some of the threats.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/An-Expelled-Transgender/131678/
LYONS, Ga. — Norman Neesmith was sleeping in his home on a rural farm road here in onion country when a noise woke him up.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/26/us/spotlight-eludes-black-youths-killing-in-georgia.html?src=me&ref=us
In a decision hailed by advocates for transgender people, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has ruled that a California woman who was denied a job at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives after revealing that she was transitioning from her former life as a man can seek legal redress under sex-discrimination regulations.
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WASHINGTON — Justices across the ideological spectrum appeared inclined on Wednesday to uphold a controversial part of Arizona’s aggressive 2010 immigration law, based on their questions at a Supreme Court argument.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/26/us/considering-arizona-immigration-law-justices-are-again-in-political-storm.html?src=me&ref=us
LOS ANGELES — When racially charged riots blazed here two decades ago, South Central became a national symbol of rage in a poor black neighborhood.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/us/in-south-los-angeles-a-changed-complexion-since-the-riots.html?src=me&ref=us
WASHINGTON — Less than a month after the Supreme Court heard three days of arguments over President Obama’s health care law, the justices on Wednesday will consider another major politically charged case about the scope of federal power, this one concerning Arizona’s aggressive 2010 immigration law.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/26/us/considering-arizona-immigration-law-justices-are-again-in-political-storm.html?_r=1&hp
Laws such as Arizona’s SB 1070 are not natural responses to undue hardship but are products of partisan politics….
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-gula-immigration-law-politics-20120424,0,3567514.story
The largest wave of immigration in history from a single country to the United States has come to a standstill. After four decades that brought 12 million current immigrants—more than half of whom came illegally—the net migration flow from Mexico to the U.S. has stopped and may have reversed. The standstill appears to result from
The study by the Pew Hispanic Center cites the economic downturn and increased enforcement at the U.S.-Mexico border as factors in the drop in the number of Mexicans coming to the country…..
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-immigration-20120424,0,27569.story
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will consider whether Arizona’s approach to illegal immigration clashes with federal law. Alabama has also run into controversy. How can states address their concerns about illegal immigration, without overstepping their power?
Read the discussion in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/04/22/how-states-should-approach-immigration