Gay rights groups voiced cautious optimism Tuesday that this week’s Supreme Court decision exempting some corporations from offering contraceptive coverage for female workers will not trigger a widespread assault on same-sex benefits or anti-discrimination laws protecting gays and lesbians in the workplace.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-court-gays-20140702-story.html
Los Angeles Times
The two women climb out of the car in front of Planned Parenthood on Commonwealth Avenue and Eleanor McCullen reaches them in two quick steps. She tries to hand them a white rose and a pamphlet about alternatives to abortion, and beseeches them to let her help.
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Los Angeles Times
At a raucous town hall meeting in Murrieta Wednesday night, city officials had a message for residents who a day earlier successfully blocked immigrant detainees from entering a local Border Patrol processing facility: Blame the federal government.
Los Angeles Times
A day after hundreds of protesters forced three buses carrying 140 immigration detainees away from a Border Patrol processing station in Murrieta, immigration
“You can be someone different,” he told Omar Cruz, his tone as soothing as the sounds of the fountain, gurgling nearby. “You can be an asset to yourself and others.”
Daily News
In another cell, an inmate who seemed to be hearing voices paced back and forth, muttering to himself. Still, he seemed better off than an inmate a few doors down whose cell had a sign that read “suicidal.”
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SAN FRANCISCO — Jess Delegencia came out as a gay man to his Baptist mother about six years ago, but she hasn’t actually said the word “gay” yet. It’s not as if she could have forgotten his sexual orientation either because, whenever she leaves her native Philippines to visit her son, she stays at the
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that requiring family-owned corporations to pay for insurance coverage for contraception under the Affordable Care Act violated a federal law protecting religious freedom.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/01/us/hobby-lobby-case-supreme-court-contraception.html
The New York Times
Dr. Ersula Ore, a Black rising-star professor at Arizona State University, had wrapped up her summer class for the evening last month and was heading home, when nearby construction had forced her and several other pedestrians to jaywalk across a busy thoroughfare near campus.
Diverse Issues in Higher Education
As the U.S. population ages and becomes more racially diverse, the country is seeing a widening demographic gap between older whites and young minorities — a shift with significant social and economic implications for the future.
http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-na-census-demographic-gap-20140626-story.html
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