Home Daily News Sharecropper’s son who rose from poverty… Obituaries Sharecropper’s son who rose from poverty to become first Black New Jersey justice dies at 91 By Debra Cassens Weiss August 5, 2024, 10:18 am CDT Former New Jersey Supreme Court Justice James H. Coleman Jr. died at age 91 on Aug. 2, rising from…
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University of Texas at Austin alumnus Clark Patterson loves his alma mater. But he’s worried. In May, as protests over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict roiled college and university campuses, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and UT Austin leadership ordered police to arrest peaceful protesters demonstrating on public university grounds. This order clearly violated the protesters’ First Amendment rights. After watching these…
Home Daily News California National Guard prosecutors will… Prosecutors California National Guard prosecutors will focus on county following ‘surge operations,’ bringing concern from PDs By Debra Cassens Weiss August 5, 2024, 1:56 pm CDT Prosecutors with the California National Guard’s Counterdrug Task Force will help prosecute state cases originating in Alameda County, California, according to…
Listen to the article 6 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: A damning 176-page independent investigative report into a questionable $238 million gift to Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University concluded that the donation was fraudulent. Florida A&M officials announced the gift — from Gregory Gerami, a…
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Overseers urgently comb college textbooks and syllabi for disfavored terms and ideas to purge. It might sound like the chilling opening of a dystopian novel, but it’s just another Monday for public college faculty in Florida. Last Monday, to be exact, when State University System of Florida Chancellor Ray Rodrigues reportedly directed the system’s 12 public…
Home Daily News AI-generated court filing had name, bar number… Technology AI-generated court filing had name, bar number of lawyer who had nothing to do with case, complaint says By Debra Cassens Weiss August 5, 2024, 2:53 pm CDT Florida foreclosure lawyer Matthew Weidner has said his name and his bar number were used in…
He certainly didn’t couch his words. Last night, Democratic vice presidential pick and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz came to FIRE’s hometown of Philadelphia to campaign with presidential nominee Kamala Harris. “And I got to tell you, I can’t wait to debate the guy — that is, if he’s willing to get off the couch and…