Obama signs education law rewrite shifting power to states
President Obama signed a major rewrite of No Child Left Behind shifting decision making to states while keeping mandatory statewide tests. The measure emphasizes reduced testing time, local control, and new plans for improving the lowest performing schools alongside ongoing federal standards and preschool support.
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Washington
Barack Obama
White House
Senate
House
Congress
John Kline
R-Minn
Education Department
Associated Press
Patty Murray
D-Wash
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee
U.S
Lamar Alexander
Rtenn
Scalia rebuked for remarks on black students in admissions
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia faces backlash after suggesting that some black students may belong at slower track universities during Texas affirmative action arguments. Critics including Senate Leader Reid and the White House condemn the comments as racist echoes of older times.
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White House
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Senate
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Reid
America
Josh Earnest
Barack Obama
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Clarence Thomas
University of Michigan
Paul Cassell
University of Utah
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Georgetown University Law
Michigan
Arizona
Texas
Officials search for missed red flags before California shootings
U S officials say ex extremist messages between Syed Rizwan Farook and wife to Pakistan surfaced online as early as 2013. Malik entered on a fiancée visa despite radical views. FBI divers searched a lake near San Bernardino as investigators pursue leads of where the couple were that day. Marquez, friend who bought the rifles, was tied to deeper links than previously disclosed and could have plotted a 2012 attack. Federal officials briefed Congress amid questions about missed red flags and in place radicalization.
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Los Angeles
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Rhode Island
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House Intelligence Committee
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Texas
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Enrique Marquez
Previ
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Idaho
Jim Risch
Senate Select Committee On Intelligence
Riverside
Armida Chacon
Los Angeles Times
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Raheel Farook
Tatiana
Mariya Chernykh
Riverside County
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Senate
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Saudi Arabia
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