WASHINGTON — The bipartisan push to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws took a major step forward Monday evening when the Senate endorsed a proposal to substantially bolster security along the nation’s southern borders as part of a measure that would provide a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants already in the country.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday effectively struck down the heart of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by a 5-to-4 vote, ruling that Congress had not provided adequate justification for subjecting nine states, mostly in the South, to federal oversight.
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on Monday in a lawsuit challenging race-conscious admissions at the University of Texas at Austin does not substantially alter the legal landscape for colleges, but it does put them under more pressure to justify such affirmative-action policies than they had been under before.
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BEAUMONT, Tex. — There is little agreement on anything, even when it all started, but sometime in the last decade the Beaumont Independent School District became a battle zone.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that lower courts did not apply a sufficiently tough level of scrutiny to the University of Texas’ use of race in admissions decisions, sending the case back to one of those lower courts to be reconsidered.
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The Board of Regents of the University of Colorado approved a measure on Thursday that calls for hiring a nonpartisan group to conduct a “climate survey” on all of the system’s campuses to help determine whether the university respects political diversity, The Daily Camera reported.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s eagerly awaited decisions on same-sex marriage, affirmative action and voting rights will have to wait until next week, as the justices finished this week’s public session with three rulings of much more limited interest.
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A controversial Christian ministry that was devoted to changing people “affected by homosexuality” had become “imprisoned” by its own world view and judgment against the gay community and had to close, according to a statement posted on the ministry’s website.
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The Vietnamese cultural district in Orange County — the largest outside Vietnam — began as a home for refugees. Now the second generation has taken charge.
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Any difference can set schoolchildren apart from their peers and potentially make them a target for bullying. But a severe food allergy is a unique vulnerability: It takes only one lunch or cupcake birthday party for other children to know which classmates cannot eat nuts, eggs, milk or even a trace of wheat. It can