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Edward Blum, the legal strategist behind the Supreme Court case that dismantled affirmative action in college admissions, has filed a lawsuit against the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Latino over an internship program that strives to increase Latino representation in key museum roles.

The Smithsonian Institution said it’s moving as quickly as it can to repatriate remains of about 30,000 people acquired for research more than 100 years ago.

Stacker explored the fascinating lives and achievements of the 20 remarkable women celebrated by the U.S. Mints American Women Quarters Program.

Edward Blum, the legal strategist behind the Supreme Court case that dismantled affirmative action in college admissions, has filed a lawsuit against the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Latino over an internship program that strives to increase Latino representation in key museum roles.

If the staid residents of Washington should see a dinosaur ambling through Rock Creek Park, they would be surprised. Logically they should be just as…

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Celebrity couple Caroline Stanbury and Sergio Carrallo book 'best seats on plane', but end up 'mortified and uncomfortable' in a TikTok video that's gone viral

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 26, 2024 - The planning team came in after the weekend to see another beautiful Martian drill hole on the target Mineral King! Mineral King is named after a silver mining district in Sequoia National Park, Cal

By Aaron Morrison | The Associated Press Residents of Baltimore gather during the community’s response to the 2015 in-custody death of Freddie Gray. The

“I like selling to museums; Needless to say this is a bit bigger than the museum down the road.”