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Allegations that U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford when the two were teenagers have not just prompted uncertainty about Kavanaugh's confirmation, they also have prompted discussion about intoxication, sexual assault and how alcohol impacts memory especially in the developing teenage brain. The contentious topic typically arises in discussions of college sexual assault like the case of Brock Turner, a 19-year-old convicted for sexually assaulting a young woman who had passed out from drinking.
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SAN FRANCISCO California technology analyst Brian Solis was having a conversation with a friend while the two were driving through Texas. His friend was buying a ranch in Texas but was having trouble with the financing because it was considered a "barndominium."
The nation's attention is currently on the southern border, where the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy has caused a crisis over separated immigrant children. Forgotten in all this is that an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants continue to live in the United States - and most of them work.
Republicans in Congress spent much of 2017 seeking to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. After repeated attempts failed, they celebrated a victory with the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.
"They have no damn right," former Vice President Joe Biden said on Feb. 16, denouncing Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Biden spoke for many Americans who are indignant over the mounting evidence of a multifaceted effort by the Kremlin to sow discord among Americans and tilt the election in favor of Donald Trump.
The election of Donald Trump may have surprised some observers, but many Californians felt a sense of dA jA vu. Just over 20 years ago, the state passed Proposition 187.
The future remains uncertain for a group of young people who were brought to the U.S. as children without legal authorization. Some of these so-called "Dreamers" were temporarily shielded from deportation through an Obama-era program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.
As a scholar of African-American and Southern politics for the last 25 years, I've witnessed a lot of election upsets and surprises. None has been more interesting than the Democrat Doug Jones' election to the U.S. Senate in a Dec. 12 special election against Republican Roy Moore.
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