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Supreme Court upholds ban on affirmative action in college admissions — The Supreme Court delivered another setback to affirmative action Tuesday, easing the way for states to bar public colleges from considering race in admissions. — The 6-2 decision upheld a Michigan constitutional amendment …
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Supreme Court Upholds Michigan's Affirmative Action Ban — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a Michigan voter initiative that banned racial preferences in admissions to the state's public universities. — In earlier cases, including one from June concerning the University of Texas …
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Washington Monthly, Los Angeles Times, Liberaland and Wall Street Journal
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
No stopping Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — Midway through Monday's arguments at the Supreme Court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg appeared to be fading. — She was looking down at her case material, her head resting in her hand, her face just a few inches above the desk.
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Fox News:
Supreme Court upholds Michigan affirmative action ban — Oct. 15, 2013: People line up to hear oral arguments, including the case Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, at the Supreme Court in Washington.reuters — The Supreme Court has upheld Michigan's affirmative action ban …
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Associated Press:
High court upholds Mich affirmative action ban — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Michigan's ban on using race as a factor in college admissions despite one justice's impassioned dissent that accused the court of wanting to wish away racial inequality.
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Steve Pokin / Springfield News-Leader:
Marionville mayor resigns — Marionville Mayor Dan Clevenger resigned Monday night for making anti-Semitic comments in the wake of the arrest of white supremacist Frazier Glenn Miller and after aldermen voted 4-1 to start the impeachment process. — Clevenger, 59, said he was personally hurt …
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Mayor Who ‘Kind Of Agreed’ With Alleged Jewish Center Shooter Resigns
Mayor Who ‘Kind Of Agreed’ With Alleged Jewish Center Shooter Resigns
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Washington Post:
President Obama, disregarding his own red line, dithers on Ukraine — AFTER AN agreement to “de-escalate tensions and restore security” in Ukraine was announced Thursday, Secretary of State John F. Kerry was very explicit about U.S. expectations. “We fully expect the Russians . . …
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Adam Goldberg / Associated Press:
U.S. Warns That Russia Has ‘Days, Not Weeks’ To Comply With Ukraine Accord
U.S. Warns That Russia Has ‘Days, Not Weeks’ To Comply With Ukraine Accord
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New York Times:
Who Will Win The Senate? … Every day, our computer churns through the latest polls and reams of historical data to calculate both parties' chances of winning control of the Senate. Although the Democrats currently have a 51 percent chance, that doesn't mean we're predicting the Democrats …
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Darren Goode / Politico:
Horses, teepees arrive on Mall for Keystone protest — Horses, Daryl Hannah, sacred fires and Neil Young — these are some of the things you'll see on the National Mall starting Tuesday as part of the latest protest against the Keystone XL pipeline. — The “Reject and Protect” …
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Lachlan Markay / Washington Free Beacon:
Union Hammers Obama for ‘Gutless’ Keystone XL Delay
Union Hammers Obama for ‘Gutless’ Keystone XL Delay
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
One in Four in U.S. Are Solidly Skeptical of Global Warming — Nearly 40% are “Concerned Believers” in global warming, others are mixed — PRINCETON, NJ — Over the past decade, Americans have clustered into three broad groups on global warming. The largest, currently describing 39% of U.S. adults …
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CNN:
First on CNN: 15 cities in running for 2016 Democratic Convention — Washington (CNN) - The Democratic Party has asked 15 mayors to submit formal bids to host the 2016 Democratic National Convention, an event that could cost a city as much as $60 million but the payout could be triple the investment or more.
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David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Supreme Court seems inclined to bolster truth-in-labeling laws — High court justices take a dim view of Coca-Cola's selling juice labeled as pomegranate-blueberry that is mostly apple and grape juice. — Pom Wonderful, which says its product contains 100% pomegranate juice …
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Sally Kohn / The Daily Beast:
The GOP's Limp ‘Emasculate Obama’ Ploy — Republicans can mock Obama for having a ‘manhood problem,’ but they're woefully out of touch with the new masculinity. — Out and about this weekend, I saw no less than three men who appeared to be heterosexual wearing little buns on the tops of their heads.
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Crooks and Liars, Hot Air and National Review
Wall Street Journal:
Mrs. Clinton's New Memoir — Yesterday on a panel on “Face the Nation,” we briefly discussed Hillary Clinton's forthcoming memoir of her four years as secretary of state. It is called “Hard Choices”—they appear to be running low at the book-title store—and will be published June 10.
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Gregory Korte / OnPolitics:
IRS revokes group's tax exemption over anti-Clinton statements
IRS revokes group's tax exemption over anti-Clinton statements
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Washington Free Beacon
Alex Roarty / The Atlantic Online:
The Class War Inside the Republican Party — It took David Perdue about 20 seconds of speechifying to expose a tension roiling the Republican Party. Speaking in January, the former business executive turned Georgia candidate for U.S. Senate asked a group of local Republicans to parse the resumes of his primary foes.
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Jon Krakauer / News Desk:
Death and Anger on Everest — For many years, the most lucrative commercial guiding operation on Mt. Everest has been a company called Himalayan Experience, or Himex, which is owned by a New Zealand mountaineer named Russell Brice. In the spring of 2012, more than a month into the climbing season …
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Julia O'Donoghue / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Lawmaker pulls bill to make Holy Bible Louisiana's official state book — The Louisiana House of Representatives was scheduled to take up a bill to declare the Holy Bible that official state book on Monday evening. — Rep. Thomas Carmody, R-Shreveport, scrapped his proposal to make the Holy Bible …
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Daniel Shuchman / Wall Street Journal:
Thomas Piketty Revives Marx for the 21st Century — An 80% tax rate on incomes above $500,000 is not meant to bring in money for education or benefits, but ‘to put an end to such incomes.’ — Thomas Piketty likes capitalism because it efficiently allocates resources. But he does not like how it allocates income.
Abby Goodnough / New York Times:
Looking at Costs and Risks, Many Skip Health Insurance — LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Steve Huber, an affable salesman who is still paying off an unexpected medical bill, was not among the millions of Americans who signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act during the enrollment period that ended March 31.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Morning Plum: What does ‘running on Obamacare’ look like? — Ever since President Obama seized on the announcement of eight million Obamacare sign-ups to urge Democratic candidates to run proudly on the law, commentators have been debating whether Dem candidates should — or would — listen.
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Talking Points Memo, Mediaite and Washington Examiner
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Student Loans Can Suddenly Come Due When Co-Signers Die, a Report Finds — For students who borrow on the private market to pay for school, the death of a parent can come with an unexpected, added blow, a federal watchdog warns. Even borrowers who have good payment records can face sudden demands for full …
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