#Zelensky marks 500 days of Russia-Ukraine war

#Zelensky marks 500 days of Russia-Ukraine war

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky marked 500 days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in a pre-recorded public address Saturday. Speaking from Snake Island — the small Black Sea landmass which Russian warships bombarded in the first day of the war, capturing its small Ukrainian garrison who resisted surrender — Zelensky pledged neither the island nor…

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#Harvard faces civil rights complaint over its legacy admissions

#Harvard faces civil rights complaint over its legacy admissions

Harvard is facing a civil rights complaint over the school’s legacy admissions after the Supreme Court ruled against race-conscious admissions practices. “Each year, Harvard College grants special preference in its admissions process to hundreds of mostly white students — not because of anything they have accomplished, but rather solely because of who their relatives are,”…

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#Gen Zers make ‘difficult’ employees, managers say

#Gen Zers make ‘difficult’ employees, managers say

Three-quarters of bosses find Generation Z workers a trifle difficult, a corporate survey has found.  A poll of 1,344 managers and business leaders by ResumeBuilder.com found that 74 percent consider Gen Z employees more challenging than older staffers.   Pressed for specifics, employers did not mince words.  “They think they’re better than you, smarter than you,…

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#Justice Jackson rips Supreme Court’s ‘ostrich-like’ logic on affirmative action 

#Justice Jackson rips Supreme Court’s ‘ostrich-like’ logic on affirmative action 

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson blasted the Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action Thursday, warning that its decision “makes things worse, not better” for race relations. “The best that can be said of the majority’s perspective is that it proceeds (ostrich-like) from the hope that preventing consideration of race will end racism,” Jackson wrote in a dissenting…

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#Supreme Court hands down blow to college affirmative action

#Supreme Court hands down blow to college affirmative action

The Supreme Court severely limited the use of race as a factor in college admissions, upending decades of affirmative action programs that U.S. institutions have used to select students from their applicant pools. The court’s six conservative justices invalidated Harvard’s and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s (UNC) admissions policies by ruling they did not comply…

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#Biden using CPAP machine to treat sleep apnea

#Biden using CPAP machine to treat sleep apnea

President Biden began using a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine in recent weeks to improve his sleep quality, the White House confirmed Wednesday. “Since 2008, the President has disclosed his history with sleep apnea in thorough medical reports. He used a CPAP machine last night, which is common for people with that history,” deputy…

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#Supreme Court hands defeat to North Carolina GOP in election law clash

#Supreme Court hands defeat to North Carolina GOP in election law clash

The Supreme Court on Tuesday in a 6-3 decision rejected a bid to give state legislatures sweeping authority in drawing congressional maps and regulating federal elections, declining to endorse the so-called “independent state legislature” theory. The decision preserves the ability for state courts to hear partisan gerrymandering lawsuits in congressional redistricting and review other federal election…

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#Supreme Court tosses Trump DC hotel records case

#Supreme Court tosses Trump DC hotel records case

The Supreme Court will no longer hear a case on whether Democratic lawmakers should have been able to sue to obtain documents related to a Washington, D.C., hotel former President Trump owned during his presidency. Congressional members dismissed the lawsuit last month. After the high court last month agreed to hear the Biden Justice Department’s…

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