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A two-year investigation conducted by the Department of Justice finds Yale University’s undergraduate admissions process has been “illegally discriminating” against Asian and white applicants, AP reports. “Yale grants substantial, and often determinative, preferences based on race to certain racially-favored applicants and relatively and significantly disfavors other applicants because of their race,” Civil Rights Division official Eric Dreiband wrote in the letter to […]
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is the subject of a new Department of Justice indictment. Though the superseding indictment doesn’t contain any additional charges other than the 18 the DOJ unsealed in 2019, prosecutors argue that it “broadens the scope” of alleged efforts by Assange to gather and release classified information. Among the mentions in […]
One day after vowing to look into the handling of Ahmaud Arbery’s death, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr is requesting that the U.S. Department of Justice step in, WSB-TV Atlanta reports. “We are committed to a complete and transparent review of how the Ahmaud Arbery case was handled from the outset,” Carr said. “The family, […]
Days after the Justice Department said it won’t be bringing civil rights charges against Daniel Pantaleo, the officer responsible for choking Eric Garner to death, the victim’s daughter, Emerald, launched a petition on Change.org demanding that he be fired from the NYPD. “Hello I am the youngest daughter of Eric Garner, Emerald Garner, please hear my message and […]
On Feb. 3, it was reported that 21 Savage had been arrested in Atlanta, along with his cousin and fellow rapper Young Nudy, and taken into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. ICE alleges that the father of three, who grew up in Atlanta, is a national of the United Kingdom. The agency claims […]
A Fox News host apologized on air on Thursday, when a guest equated Hillary Clinton to herpes. On Thanksgiving, the network ran a segment on a recent New York Times report which revealed Donald Trump thought about instructing the Department of Justice to prosecute Clinton. To discuss the report, Fox host Rick Leventhal brought on Anna Paulina, the director […]
Donald Trump repeatedly sought the prosecution of his political foes back in spring, The New York Times reported Tuesday. Sources familiar with the matter claim POTUS wanted the Department of Justice to indict his 2016 presidential opponent Hillary Clinton, as well as former FBI director James Comey. When he brought this up to then-White House counsel Don McGahn, Trump was […]
