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In oral arguments today, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said that black scientists would benefit from going to less challenging schools than they do under affirmative action.

Campus has been notified to lock doors and shelter in place, according to the university. No shots were fired or injuries reported.

Her research suggests that if the Supreme Court struck down the consideration of race in admissions policies, the share of African Americans at elite universities would fall by as much as 50 percent.

Lohan has also been showing off her vocal chops, performing with Duran Duran at a recent concert in London.

About 80 percent of first-year students at the University of Texas-Austin are automatically admitted under a program that reserves places for the top 10 percent of Texas high school students regardless of race. “Really competent blacks” would win admission without...

Despite strong anti-Microsoft campaigns, the console has managed to outsell the Xbox 360 on a year-by-year basis. Guardians bundle will cost $450, the Xbox One Elite bundle will cost $450, and the 1TB Xbox One bundle will cost $350; bundles are available at most US game retailers.

“There are African-American students for whom the local community college might be better than the University of Texas, Austin, but guess what?” (Justice Elena Kagan had recused herself the case, having participated in it in her previous career as a lawyer for the...

The officers used electrical shock, burning and mock executions to elicit confessions from suspects, mostly African-American, from the early 1970s through the early 1990s.

The latest video produced by Everytown for Gun Safety, a group founded in 2014 that advocates for gun violence prevention, is a mashup of clips of about 30 cultural icons and 30 survivors or moms saying the words “we can end gun violence”.

So that’s the context in which Scalia was saying schools like the University of Texas might be too hard for black students-a lawsuit about a white student who did not make the cutoff for admission to the school.

Mobiles and smartphones sold like hot cakes, according to online shopping data released by Adobe.

Using Google’s search algorithm, users can search for words in their photos like “dog” or “graduation”. Google stated it would be released before the end of the year and today we see the official announcement. The new shared albums feature works with...

As with many cases before the Roberts court, attention has turned to Justice Anthony Kennedy.

A Japanese probe has successfully entered the orbit of Venus, the country’s space agency confirmed today, five years after it missed on the first attempt due to an engine failure.

Antonin Scalia, the U.S. Supreme Court’s most blunt justice, grabbed the spotlight during Wednesday’s debate over college affirmative action programs when he said that perhaps the University of Texas “ought to have fewer” racial minorities. “I...