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The three law schools in Washington state are located in Seattle and Spokane. (zimmytws/Adobe Stock)
Washington state law schools are aiming to recruit more Latino and Native American students through a program at a central Washington university.
The state's three law schools at Gonzaga University, Seattle University and the University of Washington are collaborating with Heritage Univer...
January 13, 2022
Once more, 2021 demonstrated that constant change should become your friend and ally. After a second year of global uncertainty caused by the formidable challenges of the COVID-pandemic, we all long for a return “back-to-normal.” However, chances are that 2022 will continue to present drastic and unpredictable challenges.
Let us start with the consequences of the pandemic that are already vis...
January 13, 2022
Tourists pass a large statue of John Marshall, who served as the fourth Chief Justice of the United States, at the U.S. Supreme Court building. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Some students and alumni want Cleveland-Marshall College of Law renamed before graduation
A Chicago law school has already removed 19th century justice John Marshall from its name due to his slaveholding and jurisprudence uphol...
January 13, 2022
On Thursday, the House passed an omnibus voting rights bill that included the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, an effort to restore and revitalize the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA). The bill is now before the Senate, where despite bipartisan support it faces an uncertain future due to the filibuster.
The VRA was the most successful civil rights legislation in our country’s histo...
January 13, 2022
A Hungarian education foundation paid Dennis Prager $30,000 in public funds for two appearances during an August youth festival where he and Fox News host Tucker Carlson touted the country’s far-right stances on the media, immigration and LGBTQ issues, according to a contract obtained by Hatewatch.
The Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) invited Prager, who hosts a popular talk radio show and co...
January 13, 2022
Martinez
When Washington State University freshman Sam Martinez died two years ago in a hazing-related incident at his fraternity, Alpha Tau Omega, 15 current and former ATO members were charged with furnishing liquor to minors, a gross misdemeanor.
Roughly half pleaded guilty last year, with sentences between one and 19 days in jail and a $500 fine. The others are continuing their cases...
January 13, 2022
DENVER -- Nigeria's top Olympic medal hopeful was thrilled. The drugs her doctor sent were working.
“Eric my body feel so good,” Blessing Okagbare said in a text not long after running the 100 meters in a personal-best 10.63 seconds. “Whatever you did is working so well.”
“Eric” is Eric Lira, a naturopathic doctor in Texas, who on Wednesday became the first person charged under a landmark U.S...
January 13, 2022
Blessing Okagbare, of Nigeria races in a women's 200 meter heat at the World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, Sept. 30, 2019. U.S. prosecutors charged a Texas man on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022 with providing performance-enhancing drugs to athletes competing in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, including Okagbare. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, file)
DENVER (AP) — Nigeria’s top Olympic medal hopef...
January 13, 2022
Texts, pictures lead to 1st doping case under new US law Daily Union
January 13, 2022
Pro-life advocates are seen near the U.S. Supreme Court Dec. 1, 2021, the day justices heard oral arguments in a case about a Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks of gestation. (Credit: Tyler Orsburn/CNS.)
NEW YORK – New Jersey bishops expressed “profound disappointment and deep concern” about the passage of a bill on Jan. 12 that codifies the right to an abortion in the state, ...
