WASHINGTON — An affirmative action plan at the University of Texas seemed to be in trouble at the Supreme Court on Wednesday. By the end of an unusually long and tense argument, a majority of the justices appeared unpersuaded that the plan was constitutional.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court heard a major case on affirmative action in higher education on Wednesday, one that has the potential to limit or do away with racial preferences in admissions decisions at colleges and universities.
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Once more, with his unparalleled ability to provoke, the unsinkable Donald Trump has thrust himself to the fore of the 2016 presidential campaign, stoking a fierce debate over immigration, tolerance and the best means to fight terrorism.
The latest discord grew out of a two-paragraph statement Monday in which the Republican hopeful ignored legal niceties and
If there was any bright spot in the circumstances surrounding last week’s massacre in San Bernardino, it was the performance of law enforcement officers.
Police officers, sheriff’s deputies and federal agents worked together to stop the killers, search the area and investigate the circumstances.
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Black and Hispanic student activists demonstrate outside the U.S. Supreme Court whenever it debates affirmative action in college admissions, but this time around, they are already protesting throughout the nation.
As the court prepares to hear oral arguments on Wednesday in Abigail Noel Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin (No. 14-981), a lawsuit challenging that institution’s consideration
Community-college students, many of them adults, often face the challenge of balancing coursework with jobs and families. But some students face a more basic, urgent struggle: feeding themselves and finding a place to stay at night.
One in five community-college students went hungry in the last month because they couldn’t afford enough food, according to a
The morning 14 people were killed at a California office party, Hassanah El-Yacoubi was on her way to class at the University of California at Riverside.
Around noon, her classmates started asking, “Did you hear about the shooting?” Ms. El-Yacoubi, a Ph.D. student in religious studies, had not.
She checked her phone and saw a text from
Shortly after the news came out that the assailants in the San Bernardino shooting had ties to the local Muslim community, the national leadership of the Islamic Circle of North America gathered on a conference call.
They needed to issue a statement, but as they began to talk, they found themselves pushed into a corner. Yet
In a historic transformation of the American military, Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said on Thursday that the Pentagon would open all combat jobs to women.
“There will be no exceptions,” Mr. Carter said at a news conference. He added,
Our Response To Terror
After the horrific mass attacks directed at France, Russia, Mali, Lebanon, Tunisia and Turkey, in recent weeks, the terror threat has understandably reemerged as the most significant concern of the American public. Respondents overwhelmingly, at a level of 83 percent, believe “Islamic terrorists will try to launch an attack on U.S.