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28 Feb 2021, 1:11 pm
A student group filed suit against Yale University on the grounds that the school discriminated against Asian-American and white applicants, pressuring federal judges to pick up a similar case the Biden administration recently abandoned. [read post]
9 Apr 2017, 9:42 am
Labor giant Service Employees International Union spent $60 million on politics and lobbying as well as $19 million on the Fight for 15 movement in 2016, and now finds itself laying off headquarters staff. [read post]
24 Jul 2018, 9:50 am
On insurance coverage issues, sometimes the boat seems to be listing in the wrong direction. [read post]
3 Oct 2020, 12:51 pm
The number of students being disciplined for exercising free speech on college campuses has skyrocketed in recent months as schools crack down on criticism of Black Lives Matter, according to a legal nonprofit that offers free assistance to students. [read post]
3 Nov 2015, 9:43 am
But as cynical as most of us have become about the national security policy of this White House, it did nevertheless seem jarring that rather than announce the deployment himself, the president left the task to the Pentagon and to the ironically named Josh Earnest. [read post]
13 Dec 2013, 10:23 am
A Chinese naval vessel tried to force a U.S. guided missile warship to stop in international waters recently, causing a tense military standoff in the latest case of Chinese maritime harassment, according to defense officials. [read post]
30 Nov 2015, 5:19 pm
The Pentagon’s Joint Staff warned in a recent intelligence briefing that Islamic State terrorists are entering Europe “mostly unimpeded,” according to defense officials. [read post]
25 Jun 2020, 11:53 am
The New York Times continues to shake up its editorial page after the resignation of James Bennet, the opinion editor who angered many of his former colleagues by publishing an op-ed written by a Republican. [read post]
9 Apr 2017, 5:11 am
Graduate students at Harvard University said Donald Trump's presidential victory pushed them into an "existential" crisis of sadness and despair. [read post]
31 Aug 2020, 4:08 pm
The residents of a Whitefish neighborhood surrounding a pleasant lake with a racist name filed documents in Flathead County District Court earlier this month to officially rename it Lost Loon Lake. [read post]
20 Mar 2020, 9:59 am
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30 Jun 2016, 6:32 pm
Wildlife officials are going to great lengths but hopes are dimming as they continue to search for a bear that killed a West Glacier man riding his mountain bike on a forested trail south of Glacier National Park. [read post]
23 Oct 2009, 5:50 pm
[Post by Venkat] I mentioned last week that a group of plaintiffs sought to intervene in the class action filed against Facebook in the Northern District of California. [read post]
25 Sep 2015, 3:16 pm
The United States has backed down from plans to impose economic sanctions on China for cyber attacks after both countries agreed to curb economic spying, President Obama indicated Friday. [read post]
5 Jan 2015, 10:04 am
“Is it possible that 1.6 billion people (Muslims worldwide) should want to kill the rest of the world’s population—that is, 7 billion people—so that they themselves may live? [read post]
19 Feb 2014, 6:41 am
Celebrity Rabbi Shmuley Boteach lashed out a former Pink Floyd rocker Roger Waters for engaging in a “shocking Jew hating colonic” during an interview with the anti-Semitic website Counterpunch. [read post]
18 Nov 2015, 6:13 pm
The Obama administration spent $400,000 on oil portraits between 2012 and 2013, according to ABC News. [read post]
5 May 2021, 11:18 am
Cornell University students expressed support for racial segregation after the school allowed white students to enroll in a rock climbing class originally restricted to minority students. [read post]
7 Dec 2016, 11:17 am
The academy’s Center for Teaching and Learning is holding two events on Friday, one for faculty and staff and another for midshipmen. [read post]
14 Jan 2016, 7:40 am
The Internal Revenue Service may still be unfairly targeting conservative organizations for audit due to flaws within their interior controls, Americans for Tax Reform reported Wednesday. [read post]
