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October 10th, 2012
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is questioning the University of Texas' use of race in college admissions in a case that could lead to new limits on affirmative action.
The justices heard arguments Wednesday in a challenge to the program from a white Texan who claims she was discriminated against when the university did not offer her a spot in 2008. The court's conservatives cast doubt on the...
October 10th, 2012
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PHOENIX (AP) — A federal appeals court on Sept. 25 denied a Arizona sheriff's request to reverse a lower-court decision barring his deputies from detaining people solely on the suspicion that they're illegal immigrants.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco issued a 23-page ruling after considering the narrow question of a preliminary injunction while a Phoenix trial court considers...
October 10th, 2012
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JOS, Nigeria (AP) — Violence across central and north Nigeria killed 21 people, as gunmen attacked both security forces and civilians in a region where ethnic and religious tensions still simmer, officials said Wednesday.
The majority of the killings happened in Plateau state, where rioting and violence between Christians and Muslims of different ethnic groups have killed hundreds in recent years...
October 9th, 2012
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BERKELEY, California (AP) — U.S. officials are investigating anti-Semitism allegations at the University of California, Berkeley.
The Los Angeles Times says recent graduates claim university officials created a hostile campus climate for Jewish students by failing to curb anti-Israel protests.
They say a protest against Israel's treatment of Palestinians was one of several February campus events...
October 9th, 2012
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York taxpayers paid more than $5 million in the last two years to settle more than a dozen sexual harassment cases against state workers, according to records obtained Oct. 4.
The cases include $1.79 million paid to a woman who worked for the state prisons system in western New York. The incident reported in 2000 and not settled until 2009, showed $1.1 million going to...
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