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Apr 17 2024
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Nassau Community College consolidates departments
Nassau Community College is overhauling its academic structure. The Long Island institution plans to consolidate 21 academic departments into six departments this coming fall. The college’s leaders say the move is necessary for the long-term financial health of the institution. But faculty union officials believe it will weaken academic quality. The Nassau Community College Federation of
Inside Higher EdApr 19 2024
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Schulz departing as Washington State University president
Washington State University President Kirk Schulz announced Friday that he will retire at the end of next year, bringing his nearly decade-long stint as the university’s top leader to an end. Schulz, who was appointed to the role in 2016, announced his plans at the tail-end of a Board of Regents meeting on the university’s Spokane campus Friday morning. The announcement comes as the university
Spokesman ReviewJul 28 2023
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Justice Department investigating Memphis policing methods
Kristen Clarke, the assistant U.S. attorney general for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, speaks during a news conference on Thursday in Memphis, Tennessee. (AP photo) MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday it is investigating how Memphis Police Department officers use force and conduct arrests, nearly seven months after the violent beating of Tyre Nichols
Minnesota LawyerApr 08 2024
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Justice for Ashli Babbitt! - Judicial Watch
Judicial Watch Asks Court to Deny Biden Justice Department Request to Transfer Ashli Babbitt $30 Million Wrongful Death Lawsuit from California to Washington, DC Judicial Watch announced recently that it has asked a federal court to deny the U.S. Government’s request to transfer the Ashli Babbitt wrongful death lawsuit from California to Washington, DC. Among other legal points, Judicial Watch
Judicial WatchNov 08 2023
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Justice Dept. launches investigation into City of Lexington, police department
HOLMES CO., Miss. (WLBT) - The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into the City of Lexington, Mississippi, and the Lexington Police Department (LPD). The investigation will seek to determine whether there are systemic violations of the Constitution and federal law. The investigation will focus on the police department’s use of force and its stops, searches, and arrests
WLBT 3Apr 22 2024
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UChicago scholar wants Students for Justice in Palestine punished
Institution fears bad press if it punishes activists who break rules: scholar The University of Chicago should punish Students for Justice in Palestine for disrupting campus events and effectively shutting down free speech, according to a longtime professor. Jerry Coyne, professor emeritus of ecology and evolution, said he believes his school has betrayed its well-known commitment to free
The College FixJan 18 2024
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Read the full 500-page Uvalde shooting report released by US Department of Justice
The U.S. Justice Department's 500-page report comes as residents of Uvalde demand accountability for a series of failures that compounded the tragedy. The report found state and local law enforcement's response to the worst school shooting in Texas history a "failure," with no one taking full command and the school's police chief taking actions that delayed the effort to save lives and to
Austin American-StatesmanJan 18 2024
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Justice Department Confirms Authenticity of Hunter Biden Laptop, Says It Matches ICloud Data
New court filings confirm the authenticity of a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden that was left behind at a computer shop and obtained by federal investigators. Federal prosecutors have confirmed in a new court filing the authenticity of the infamous Hunter Biden laptop and that when investigators took possession of the device and searched it, they found its contents largely overlapped with
The Epoch TimesApr 25 2024
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Supreme Court justices skeptical of sweeping immunity claims by Trump
Justices on the Supreme Court voiced skepticism Thursday to assertions from former President Trump’s attorneys that presidential immunity could extend to an attempted coup or the assassination of a political rival, even as they seemed ready to offer some protections from criminal prosecution.
Such a ruling could create a new cycle of legal battles that in turn could delay Trump’s
The HillDec 01 2023
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Tennessee's penalties for HIV-positive people are discriminatory, Justice Department says
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee's decades-old aggravated prostitution statute violates the Americans with Disabilities Act, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday after an investigation, warning that the state could face a lawsuit if officials don't immediately cease enforcement. Tennessee is the only state in the United States that imposes a lifetime registration as a “violent sex
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