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Texas' legal challenge goes beyond voter-ID law

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas on Wednesday asked a federal panel weighing its photo-ID requirement for voters to let the state challenge directly the constitutionality of a part of the Voting Rights Act that has required mostly Southern jurisdictions to get Washington to sign off on election changes.

In a filing ...

Bright Lights in Warsaw

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 15:41
Poland blocks the next step in the EU's anticarbon plans.


U.S. starts to lose its academic reputation

U.S. and U.K. universities still sit at the head of the class in world higher education, but emerging schools in Asia and elsewhere threaten to shift the global balance of academic power, a major study shows.

In its annual World Reputation Rankings, the London-based Times Higher Education magazine gives American ...

The Climate Kamikaze

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 15:41
"The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars" argues that global temperatures have risen in conjunction with our use of fossil fuels. Anne Jolis reviews.


Henninger: The Magician

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 15:41
In a re-election year, the U.S. president is making the world and all its troubles . . . vanish.


Rove: Obama's Money and the Enthusiasm Gap

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 15:41
The president's fund-raising troubles are evidence of disappointed Democrats.


Joseph Sternberg: China's Rare Earths Are Not So Rare

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 15:41
Today the U.S. is whining they're too expensive. Soon we'll complain they're too cheap.


Alex Pollock: Default and the Nature of Government

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 15:41
Because governments always promote government debt and can pressure banks into buying it, future sovereign debt crises are inevitable.


Kasparov and Nemtsov: The Right Way to Sanction Russia

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 15:41
With the repeal of Jackson-Vanik, it's more important than ever to hold the Russian oligarchy accountable.


Rearview Stress Tests

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 15:41
When do taxpayers get to stress-test the government?


The Message of Motown

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 15:41
Detroit and its public unions head toward bankruptcy.


Senate passes $109 billion transportation bill

CNN - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 15:41
A $109 billion transportation bill won approval Wednesday from the Senate but still faces likely political wrangling in the House.
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Teen's death shows perils of helium

Loriann and Justin Earp thought they were sending their daughter, Ashley Long, to the usual neighborhood sleepover when a popular party prank took her life. Ashley inhaled helium - something any 14-year-old girl might do to make her voice sound like a cartoon character - and died when the gas ...

Some air travelers over 75 will get break at checkpoints

CHICAGO — Some air travelers over the age of 75 will soon get a break at airport security checkpoints under a test program announced Wednesday that could allow them to keep their shoes and light jackets on and skip pat-downs.

The new guidelines from the Transportation Security Administration, which take ...

American Scene: 1 dead, 3 hurt in gunfire near Texas courthouse

BEAUMONT — A man opened fire Wednesday outside a Texas courthouse where he was on trial in a family dispute, killing an elderly woman and wounding three other people, including a daughter he ran over with a pickup truck as he tried to escape, authorities said.

Bartholomew Granger, 41, was ...

Wolf hunts to continue as court rejects suit

BILLINGS, Mont. — A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected a lawsuit from conservation groups that want to block wolf hunts that have killed more than 500 of the predators across the Northern Rockies in recent months.

The ruling from a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of ...

Barbers, beauticians are still poles apart

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Friendly arguments aren't hard to find in a barbershop, but try cutting in on a hallowed symbol - that red, white and blue pole - and it may be time to hide the scissors.

Steeped in history and symbolism, those iconic cylinders spinning on storefronts across ...

Best of the Web Today: The American Shengnu

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 15:41
Why Charles Murray may be too optimistic.


Welch: If Santorum is 2nd, watch out

CNN - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 15:41
Question: What do Mitt Romney, John McCain, Bob Dole, George H.W. Bush, and Ronald Reagan (twice!) have in common? Answer: Before winning the Republican presidential nominationt, each man first finished in second place during a GOP primary season.
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