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

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#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…

How Might the Trump Administration Target D.E.I. in Public Schools?
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How Might the Trump Administration Target D.E.I. in Public Schools?

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines What counts as a D.E.I. program in a school? And how do such programs differ from simply learning and talking about race and identity? Those questions have been central to local education debates over the past five years. Now, they are most likely…

Opinion | Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. America’s Police State Has Arrived.
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Opinion | Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. America’s Police State Has Arrived.

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines And then there was a German green card holder at Boston’s Logan Airport who was allegedly stripped and deprived of sleep and his medications by Customs and Border Protection — actions that could fit the legal definition of torture. (The agency has denied…

As Bangladesh Reinvents Itself, Islamist Hard-Liners See an Opening
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As Bangladesh Reinvents Itself, Islamist Hard-Liners See an Opening

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The extremists began by asserting control over women’s bodies. In the political vacuum that has emerged after the overthrow of Bangladesh’s authoritarian leader, religious fundamentalists in one town declared that young women could no longer play soccer. In another, they forced the police…

In Myanmar’s Earthquake, Some See Political Omens
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In Myanmar’s Earthquake, Some See Political Omens

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The dust from the devastating earthquake on Friday was still churning in Myanmar when an existential question swirled into the mix: Could this fatal clash of tectonic plates, which added yet another layer of trauma to a country already plagued by civil war,…

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

ByNews Polite

#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…

Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing
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Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines I became stateless when I was 14 and my family left the Soviet Union. In exchange for granting my parents, my brother and me exit visas, the U.S.S.R. stripped us of citizenship. For nearly a decade after we arrived in the United States,…

Trump Tries to Use White South Africans as Cautionary Tale
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Trump Tries to Use White South Africans as Cautionary Tale

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines To hear President Trump and some of his closest supporters tell it, South Africa is a terrible place for white people. They face discrimination, are sidelined from jobs and live under the constant threat of violence or having their land stolen by a…