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Did Joe Biden overcome the reasons America rejected him as president before, or just outlast them?

One of Watergate’s less obvious but lasting effects was that a politician’s “character”—a capacious term that would eventually encompass all kinds of supposed virtues and flaws—became an object of increasingly obsessive scrutiny for the press and the public. This was a noticeable shift.

A prominent board member of the Boys Scouts of America is calling for an end to the group's ban on gay scouts.

James Turley, CEO of Ernst & Young and member of the Boy Scouts of America's National Board, said he will work from within to change the ban on gay troops and leaders.

Turley announced his decision after a lesbian den mother, Jennifer Tyrell of Bridgeport, Conn., was

Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru and St. James School v. Biel, are difficult cases, which the Court will hear in a rare teleconferenced oral argument next Monday. They concern whether two Catholic school teachers qualify as “ministers,” and are therefore beyond the reach of workplace civil rights laws.

In Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC (2012), the Supreme Court held that the First

The top elected official here says he had limited authority to tackle enormous problems and quell racial tensions.

"I make $350 a month before taxes for being part-time mayor of Ferguson," Mayor James Knowles told USA TODAY. "You want to hold me accountable for not knowing that some employees were sending racist e-mails. I have no executive authority. I have no administrative authority