Generations’ worth of racial and class tensions have come to the forefront as a defiant young Latino politician takes on the city’s power brokers. His hero? A 19th century outlaw.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court threw out an Arizona law Monday and by a surprisingly lopsided vote, ruling state officials may not demand a proof of citizenship from residents who register to vote.
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WASHINGTON — Arizona may not require documentary proof of citizenship from prospective voters, the Supreme Court ruled in a 7-to-2 decision on Monday.
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WASHINGTON — Senator Claire McCaskill wandered down the dais at the Senate Armed Services Committee’s first hearing of the year and noticed a startling tableau: women to the left, women to the right.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s judgment against the Spirit Lake Sioux Tribe in its bid to save the University of North Dakota’s Fighting Sioux nickname, whose retirement state voters overwhelming endorsed last summer.
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Chivas USA’s well-publicized drive to return to its Mexican roots has spawned a racial discrimination lawsuit by two former coaches in the Major League Soccer club’s youth academy who allege they were fired because they do not speak Spanish.
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Moms are the top or sole breadwinner in 40% of households in America, a record high rate, according to a new study.
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HOUSTON — As a partner and chief diversity officer at Thompson & Knight, Pauline Higgins was not afraid to press the issue of hiring minorities at the 126-year-old Texas law firm. But when she left in 2008, she was replaced by an associate with less influence.
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GRAPEVINE, Tex. — The Boy Scouts of America on Thursday ended its longstanding policy of forbidding openly gay youths to participate in its activities, a step its chief executive called “compassionate, caring and kind.”
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Since the May 8 beating of David Sal Silva, who later died, residents have remained largely silent while a public outcry grows elsewhere in the state.
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