Colorado congressman bringing daughter of deported man to Donald…

Melecio Andazola Morales, pictured with daughter Viviana Andazola Marquez at her graduation from York International School in Thornton in 2014, was recently deported to Mexico. It has been just over two months since Viviana Andazola Marquez's father was deported , sending her studies at Yale University and plans to apply to law school spiraling.

Will religiously unaffiliated Americans increase support for liberal policies in 2018?

Last fall, the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute noted the growing number of religiously unaffiliated Americans: Nearly one of every four people is unaffiliated - a threefold increase since the 1980s. Often called "nones," this group encompasses agnostics and atheists, as well as those who simply do not belong to a religious community.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. discusses his mission to marvel with ‘100 Amazing Facts About the Negro’

'God put me on earth for many reasons, and one is to integrate the history of the human community by establishing the role that black people played,' he says. Back in the late 1960s, Yale University student Gates dropped by a campus co-op one day and ran across a paperback called "100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof: A Short Cut to the World History of the Negro."

Why nuclear deterrence can work on North Korea

The same logic that kept a nuclear war from breaking out between the United States and former Soviet Union is the best strategy to now pursue with North Korea, several scholars said Tuesday at Stanford. The panel, convened at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation , included political scientist Scott D. Sagan of CISAC; political scientist Mira Rapp-Hooper of Yale University; and political scientist Vipin Narang of MIT.

Meet Christopher Wray, Trump’s supposed nominee for FBI director

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he will nominate former Department of Justice official Christopher A. Wray to take over as FBI director. Wray, who attended Yale University for undergraduate and law school, was nominated by former President George W. Bush to be the assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's Criminal Division.

Judge: Suspect in Yale doctor’s death competent for trial

A judge ruled Monday that a doctor being forcibly medicated to treat his mental illness is now competent to stand trial for the killing of a Yale University physician. The Chinese citizen from Beijing is charged with murder in the 2010 killing of Dr. Vajinder Toor and with attempted murder for allegedly shooting at Toor's pregnant wife outside the couple's Branford home.

23 volunteers of DOJ program pass Bar exams

Some 23 volunteers of the Department of Justice's paralegal immersion program have passed the 2016 Bar Examination, Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II announced Friday. EARLY BIRDS - The gates opened as early as 4:30 a.m. at the University of Santo Tomas campus in Sampaloc, Manila, to accommodate the 6,831 that started taking the Bar Exams (Rio Leonelle Deluvio "For the work that they have done for God, Country and our DOJ, they will get an offer of employment to join us at the DOJ so that they can continue and build on the good work that they have started," Aguirre said in a statement.

Yale student teachers on hunger strike

Protesters walk down College Street on Yale University campus in New Haven, Conn., holding signatures from a petition asking the school to engage in collective bargaining with the graduate student union, April, 2017. Eight graduate student teachers at Yale University have been on hunger strike since last Tuesday in an effort to push a collective bargaining agreement with the university forward.

Swiss voters consider streamlined citizenship for under-25s

High-school student Mercado was born in Switzerland, ... Alec Baldwin, who has scored in guest shots on "Saturday Night Live" with his mocking impersonation of Donald Trump since the campaign's final weeks, presided Saturday night as guest host, serving up yet another... Alec Baldwin, who has scored in guest shots on "Saturday Night Live" with his mocking impersonation of Donald Trump since the campaign's final weeks, presided Saturday night as guest host, serving up yet another Trump masquerade. President Donald Trump's administration is stepping back from a request made by the Obama administration in an ongoing lawsuit over bathroom rights for transgender students.

GOP Reps Face Town Hall Protests Over Obamacare Repeal Efforts

Calhoun College was ... -- North Korea fired off a ballistic missile into the East Sea from Banghyeon North Pyongan Province early Sunday, according to South Korean officials... Farmers in the Klamath Basin, located along the southern Oregon and northern California coasts, are challenging the federal government's decision to cut off irrigation w... Lexington- 3rd Ranked Scottsbluff held off Lexington on Saturday afternoon 73-65 in the final day of the East/West Shootout.

Author lays out free speech strategies

A protester holds a copy of the Bible outside of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington June 15. The court June 18, 2015, ruled that a town in Arizona violated a local church's free speech rights by preventing it from posting signs notifying the public of its worship services. FREE SPEECH: TEN PRINCIPLES FOR A CONNECTED WORLD By Timothy Garton Ash Published by Yale University Press, 504 pages, $30 Timothy Garton Ash, an Oxford professor and director of freespeechdebate.com , presents a tall order in Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World .

Amid deportation threats, universities exploring ‘sanctuary’ status for immigrants

Hundreds of Rutgers University students block College Ave., in New Brunswick, N.J. on Nov. 16, 2016 as they march to protest some of President-elect Donald Trump's policies. Hundreds of Rutgers University students block College Ave., in New Brunswick, N.J. on Nov. 16, 2016 as they march to protest some of President-elect Donald Trump's policies.

Clinton Cruises To Victory In Connecticut, Grabs 7 Electoral Votes

Hillary Clinton won the popular vote Tuesday in Connecticut, the state she called home while a law student at Yale University, NBC News projected shortly after the polls closed. The announcement on television drew some applause and a "Yay Hillary!" from the crowd at the Sheraton Stamford, where supporters of U.S. Rep. Jim Himes had gathered to watch election results.

Francis Wilkinson, Bloomberg View: Trump’s rise signifies slow decay…

After Yale University economist Robert Shiller this week signed a letter supporting Hillary Clinton, he explained that he normally doesn't engage in politics, but that "the destruction that Trump's campaign tactics have done to the institutions of this nation is a great moral issue." Morality and politics are complicated, even for Nobel Prize winners from the Ivy League.

Daily: Things Fall Apart

A new study finds that if you mention a hot-button issue like abortion or guns, what the doctor tells you might depend on how he votes. How bad is that thrice-weekly pot habit? How dangerous is it to keep a gun in your home? A new study by Eitan D. Hersh and Matthew N. Goldenberg of Yale University suggests doctors' responses to those and other hot-button issues could be colored by their political views.

Scholar: Medicare growth is not the real problem

A prominent scholar says that Medicare will not be saved either by vouchers backed by Republican congressional majorities or the national health-care overhaul achieved under Democratic President Barack Obama. Theodore Marmor, who is making several stops in Oregon, says the ideal of Medicare for all - universal coverage based on the 50-year-old federal program of health insurance for people 65 and older - rests on stemming medical cost increases and setting limits for medical care.