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Unemployed lawyers sue schools over promises of jobs

Passing the bar isn't the meal ticket it used to be.

Once the surest path to a six-figure salary and a life of luxury, a law degree in the aftermath of the Great Recession comes with far fewer guarantees, leaving many graduates with mountains of debt while confronted by a ...

Plouffe: Immigration not a political move

CNN - Politics - Tue, 2024-11-26 16:16
White House Senior Adviser, David Plouffe. weighs in on Obama's immigration change and says it is not a "political move."
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A Tale of Two Conservatives

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 16:16
Sixteen Senate Republicans, including Marco Rubio, vote to preserve the sugar quota program.


Pell Grants Flunk Out

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 16:16
The subsidy program has strayed far from its origins.


Notable & Quotable

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 16:16
Steven Greenhut on California's latest good-government scheme.


Ron Williams: Why I No Longer Support the Health Insurance Mandate

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 16:16
Should ObamaCare be overturned by the Supreme Court, insurers have solutions ready to go.


Karen House: Saudi Succession and the Illusion of Stability

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 16:16
Much like the Soviet Union in its final years, the Saudis are likely to pass the crown from one old man to another.


Von Eschenbach and Hall: FDA Approvals Are a Matter of Life and Death

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 16:16
Today the medical-device industry flourishes overseas, even as it struggles under unnecessary regulatory burdens in the U.S.


American Scene: Immigration law ruling likely to prompt lawsuits

PHOENIX — Police agencies that would enforce the most controversial part of Arizona's 2010 immigration law are expected to get squeezed by legal challenges from opposite sides if the U.S. Supreme Court upholds the law in the coming days.

Opponents of the Arizona law, known as S.B. 1070, are likely ...

Stiff winds fuel wildfire; looting a worry

DENVER — Crews in northern Colorado are facing powerful winds as they battle a blaze that has scorched about 86 square miles of mountainous forest land and destroyed at least 181 homes, the most in state history.

Meanwhile, local authorities are focusing on another concern looting.

The destructiveness of the ...

Missing Japanese climbers believed dead on Mount McKinley

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A shallow avalanche on Alaska's Mount McKinley may not have killed four Japanese climbers, but the slide pushed them into a crevasse more than 100 feet deep and beyond the reach of any possible rescue, the National Park Service said Sunday.

Spokeswoman Kris Fister said Sunday that ...

Crovitz: The U.N.'s Internet Power Grab

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 16:16
Leaked documents show a real threat to the international flow of information.


John Schnapp: The Man Who Brought You Discount Shopping

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 16:16
The late Eugene Ferkauf transformed the American retail industry.


Credibility a focus of Sandusky's defense strategy

BELLEFONTE, Pa. — After a gripping, emotionally charged four days of testimony that saw eight men ranging in age from 18 to 28 tell jurors that Jerry Sandusky sexually abused them as children, the former Penn State assistant football coach soon will get to tell his side of the story.

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Romney won't say he'll overturn immigration order

AP - Politics - Tue, 2024-11-26 16:16
BRUNSWICK, Ohio (AP) -- Mitt Romney in an interview aired Sunday repeatedly refused to say that he would overturn President Barack Obama's new policy allowing some young illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. He claimed Obama's decision was political, while senior White House adviser David Plouffe said the move wasn't motivated by politics....

WILLIAMS: A return to old-fashioned entrepreneurship

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

Have you ever stopped to think about how the breakup of AT&T revolutionized the information and communications technology market? Most people probably haven't, but in 1984, the end of the regulated monopoly ushered in an era of unprecedented competition and innovation.

For those who are not familiar, AT&T broke ...

Search ends for Japanese climbers in Alaska

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The National Park Service has halted a search for four Japanese climbers believed buried on Mount McKinley because of dangerous search conditions.

The agency announced Sunday that 10 rescuers including a handler with a dog reached on Saturday the debris zone where an avalanche is believed ...

A Resentful Imagination

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 16:16
Purely political criticism is a vulgar exercise. But it may be necessary when literary ambition is compromised by toxic politics. Sohrab Ahmari reviews José Saramago's "The Lives of Things."


Ruling among court's most important

CNN - Politics - Tue, 2024-11-26 16:16
In the Supreme Court, five majority votes among the nine members are enough to fundamentally change lives and legacies.
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