Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
US House Republicans seek testimony from Hunter Biden investigators
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Republicans sought testimony on Thursday from more than a dozen officials from the Justice Department, FBI and other government agencies involved in t...
Jun 29, 2023
A ‘great day for America’: Trump, Republicans hail affirmative action ruling
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump and other top U.S. Republican leaders hailed the Supreme Court's rejection on Thursday of race-conscious student admissions programs at two universities, with the f...
Jun 29, 2023
Biden calls on US colleges to consider adversity during admission process
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Thursday urged colleges to take into account challenges that applicants face - including racial discrimination - during the admissions proc...
Jun 29, 2023
Harvard says it will comply with US Supreme Court ruling, preserve its values
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Harvard University said on Thursday it will comply with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down its race-conscious student admissions programs in a way that will preserve...
Jun 29, 2023
Biden admin has been discussing possible executive action on affirmative action – source
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's administration has in recent weeks been discussing possible executive actions he could take in response to the Supreme Court's decision on affirmative acti...
Jun 29, 2023
Reactions to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action
By Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) -Here are reactions to the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on affirmative action on Thursday, on Twitter and elsewhere. FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, DEMOCRAT: "Like an...
Jun 29, 2023
Explainer-What the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action means for colleges
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down race-conscious policies in college admissions, ending decades of precedent that had allowed schools nationwide to use such progr...
Jun 29, 2023
Post-affirmative action, these law schools may provide path for others
(Refiles to fix spelling error in 2nd paragraph) By Karen Sloan (Reuters) -The experience of two highly selective public U.S. law schools offers a guide for other schools to admitting diverse students...
Jun 29, 2023
Factbox-Who’s who in the Supreme Court’s affirmative action cases
By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down race-conscious admissions policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, a practice called affirmat...
Jun 29, 2023
Key voices in the decades-long debate over affirmative action
By Joseph Ax, Sharon Bernstein and Gabriella Borter (Reuters) - For decades, selective U.S. colleges and universities have considered, among other factors, whether applicants are from underrepresented...
Jun 29, 2023
