The president of a Christian college in Massachusetts is defending his decision to sign a letter requesting a religious exemption to a forthcoming federal ban on anti-gay discrimination by federal contractors.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
While some California legislators hope to implement a statewide ethnic-studies curriculum in coming years, one school district has decided not to wait.
http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-ethnic-studies-20140708-story.html
Los Angeles TImes
Less than two weeks after a Supreme Court ruling struck down a Massachusetts law requiring protesters to stay outside a 35-foot buffer zone around abortion clinics, cities around the country are moving to repeal similar laws or are not enforcing the buffer zones.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-buffer-zone-laws-struck-down-20140707-story.html
Los Angeles Times
Marlene Pinnock is a mother of two who once studied bookkeeping and accounting. But her life has not been simple.
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In no longer heeding federal immigration requests to hold inmates who might be deportable past their jail terms unless a judge has vetted the request, the Los Angeles Police Department is joining scores of other cities and counties that have stopped the practice.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lapd-immigrant-holds-20140708-story.html
Los Angeles Times
Orange County now ranks as the third-largest Asian American population nationwide, with nearly 600,000 Asian Americans living in a county once defined by its dominantly white communities, a study to be released Tuesday shows.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-oc-asian-american-growth-20140707-story.html
Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — It was one of the final pieces of legislation signed into law by President George W. Bush, a measure that passed without controversy, along with a pension bill and another one calling for national parks to be commemorated on quarters.
The New York Times
PHOENIX — A federal appeals court on Monday blocked Arizona’s policy of denying driver’s licenses to young immigrants who have received work permits and avoided deportation under an Obama administration program.
The New York Times
WASHINGTON — President Obama is requesting almost $4 billion in emergency funding from Congress to confront an immigration crisis from a wave of unaccompanied children surging across the southern border of the United States, White House officials said Tuesday.
The New York
WASHINGTON — Civil rights groups have spent a decade fighting requirements that voters show photo identification, arguing that this discriminates against African-Americans, Hispanics and the poor. This week in a North Carolina courtroom, another group will make its case that such laws are discriminatory: college students.
The New York Times