Suns employee sues team for discrimination, harassment
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Suns employee sues team for discrimination, harassment

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A current employee for the Suns has sued the team, alleging discrimination, harassment based on race and unlawful retaliation. The suit was filed by lawyers representing Gene Traylor in U.S. District Court in Arizona on Tuesday, according to documents obtained by The Associated…

Trump Welcomes White South African Refugees as He Shuts Out Afghans and Others
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Trump Welcomes White South African Refugees as He Shuts Out Afghans and Others

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines On the same day that dozens of white South Africans arrived in the United States as refugees, at the invitation of President Trump himself, his administration said thousands of Afghans could be deported starting this summer. Mr. Trump’s immigration policies are riddled with…

Coming Out of the Closet Was a Liberation. Why Are Some Peeking Back In?
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Coming Out of the Closet Was a Liberation. Why Are Some Peeking Back In?

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines To some, it also feels — there is no way to express this that is culturally or politically defensible, so let’s lay that aside for the moment — kind of hot. Many people get off on the transgressive, and there’s an argument to…

Fencing Is the Latest Sport Caught in the Transgender Athlete Debate
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Fencing Is the Latest Sport Caught in the Transgender Athlete Debate

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A forfeited match and a viral video. An angry knock on the door. Death threats. An avalanche of political pressure, leading to a hearing scheduled for Wednesday in Washington. The niche sport of fencing is usually not one that elicits fevered emotion beyond…

India’s Muslims Fear a Growing Backlash After Kashmir Attack
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India’s Muslims Fear a Growing Backlash After Kashmir Attack

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Widespread detentions and demolitions of property targeting Muslims in India have provoked concerns that right-wing Hindu nationalists are exploiting last week’s terrorist attack in Kashmir to deepen a campaign of oppression against the country’s largest minority group. Public anger has swelled after 26…

Inside Trump’s Pressure Campaign on Universities
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Inside Trump’s Pressure Campaign on Universities

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Follow live updates on the Trump administration. As he finished lunch in the private dining room outside the Oval Office on April 1, President Trump floated an astounding proposal: What if the government simply canceled every dollar of the nearly $9 billion promised…

Glenn Youngkin, an Anti-D.E.I. Governor, Once Championed Diversity
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Glenn Youngkin, an Anti-D.E.I. Governor, Once Championed Diversity

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Before Glenn Youngkin was a culture warrior who cheered the demise of diversity, equity and inclusion programs, he was a financial executive who worried about a lack of diversity in his field. “One of the clear challenges in the financial sector broadly is…

Vandalism of Muslim Prayer Room at N.Y.U. Is Investigated as Hate Crime
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Vandalism of Muslim Prayer Room at N.Y.U. Is Investigated as Hate Crime

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A prayer room used by Muslim students at New York University was struck by vandals who etched and drew graffiti on the walls and soaked Islamic prayer mats with urine, according to N.Y.U. officials and members of the university’s Muslim community. The soiled…

University of Michigan to Scuttle Its Flagship D.E.I. Program
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University of Michigan to Scuttle Its Flagship D.E.I. Program

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The University of Michigan will eliminate its central diversity, equity and inclusion program, the school announced on Thursday, seeking to overhaul an ambitious and expensive initiative that it had long cast as a model for American higher education. Michigan — one of the…

Venezuelan T.P.S. Holders Will Ask Judge to Maintain Deportation Protections
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Venezuelan T.P.S. Holders Will Ask Judge to Maintain Deportation Protections

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Immigrant rights lawyers on Monday will urge a federal judge in San Francisco to delay two decisions by the Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that would prevent migrants from Venezuela from staying in the United States under the Temporary Protected Status program. The…