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Last week, two Motel 6 establishments in Phoenix, Arizona, were accused of calling U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to detain undocumented guests, the Phoenix New Times reported. According to the Times, the motels were presumably responsible for 20 arrests made since February.
Capitol Hill’s newest flashpoint is the surprise budget deal President Trump struck with Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-New York, and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-California.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos declared last week the methods by which college campuses handle sexual assault constitute a “failed system.” In a speech at George Mason University, DeVos said the Obama administration “burdened schools with increasingly elaborate and confusing guidelines” that her department now intends to review and improve.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said last week that she will review the guidance for addressing sexual assault on college campuses. DeVos said she thinks the Obama administration went too far in an attempt to protect victims, ultimately infringing on the due process of those accused.
Desiree Fairooz, a member of the social justice activist group Code Pink, faces a retrial this month for charges of unlawful conduct for disrupting Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ confirmation hearing because of her laughter. She faces up to six months in jail.
The stock price of consumer credit reporting agency Equifax has dropped by nearly 14 percent after announcing Sept. 7 that hackers had gained access to the personal information of up to 143 million Americans. This included 209,000 credit card numbers and unspecified amounts of driver’s license numbers, full names, birthdates and social security numbers.
The RAND Corporation, a nonpartisan public policy organization, is arguing that later school start times could lead to a large financial payoff. But it may not be worth the extra consequences.
Bill Levin, the leader of the First Church of Cannabis, came home one day in August to find his pet, a 13-year-old peacock named Bert, lying dead under a bush, the Indianapolis Star reported.
An environmental disaster such as Hurricane Harvey does a funny thing to humanity. It lays bare what kind of nature lies beneath our fractured social relations.
Any organization that collects donations in the name of public service should be openly communicative with the public about how the donations are spent. If it is too difficult or even impossible to tell how a nonprofit is spending the funds it raises, then it becomes reasonable to suspect that these funds might be being mishandled.
L’Oreal has fired its first transgender model, Munroe Bergdorf, over inflammatory comments made on Facebook regarding the Charlottesville, Virginia, riots.
Last week, a petition asking for the removal of a mural currently residing in Woodburn Hall surfaced on Change.org. The mural, painted by the late local artist Thomas Hart Benton, depicts several Ku Klux Klan members burning a cross.
The Bloomington Plan Commission has announced that it is making moves to make more land available for adult businesses. The commission altered the existing ordinance on where "sexually oriented businesses," — as the Herald Times dubs them — can exist in the city. The alterations expand the amount of space available for these businesses, but still have to be approved by the city council.
Several Indiana brewing companies are facing scrutiny for using sexually suggestive designs of women on their beer labels. Accompanying these illustrations are names including “Leg Spreader,” “Sex and Candy” and “Naughty Girl.”
Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-California, reprinted Section Four of the 25th Amendment in a resolution this month that called for a panel of psychiatrists to be formed to “determine whether the President suffers from mental disorder or other injury that impairs his abilities and prevents him from discharging his Constitutional duties.”
Law enforcement agents in Johnson County, Indiana, swept the county Wednesday to serve 63 felony warrants to people suspected of drug dealing. Johnson County, which is just northeast of Monroe County, suffered 70 drug overdose deaths in 2016.
Long before President Trump began rallying for a wall along the United States-Mexico border, the U.S. was experiencing a resurgence in anti-immigration rhetoric, both illegal and legal.
Since we’ve all clearly decided not to abide by the trite little guideline, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all,” we’re going to need another way to filter our speech.
The departure of Steve Bannon from President Trump’s White House will be a far less historical moment than his arrival.
Jefferson Davis, John C. Calhoun and Robert E. Lee have a lot of things in common. They all were instrumental in either the creation or oversight of the Confederate States of America. They provided the structure, ideas and strategies behind the Civil War.
