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Spate american bar association panel voted last week to drop the requirement that law school applicants take the lsat or another standardized test in a debate over the impact of those tests on diversity in law school admissions. the accrediting council voted overwhelmingly to do away with its testing mandate. but critics warned the move could lead to law schools admitting students who are unlikely to succeed. even as they incur significant student debt by the panels decision comes in schools bra...

Kits to families. with a massive testing backlog, will the results come on time. in chicago, this video of a drop box for students and staff is raising concerns. the biden administration has vowed to help insisting widespread testing and keeping schools open is the right way to go. >> our students belong in the classroom and we can do it safely. >> reporter: in miami dade county one in four people are testing positive for the virus and theres no testing mandate for the schools. state law mans th...

>> americas back to work. >> reporter: a lukewarm jobs report shows the pandemic is still the presidents biggest challenge and an ongoing drag on the economy as his first year new years an end. >> were going to be able to control this. >> reporter: still biden promising the new normal wont be worse than the old one. >> covid as were dealing with it now is not here to stay. >> reporter: those comments after cdc director rochelle walensky said this to savannah guthrie. >> we are definitely looking...

Friday. there was plenty of skepticism about the broader osha mandate that required employers of 100 or more to kick in the testing mandate or vaccine for the unvaccinated. primarily because its tied to federal known and groups that accept or entities that accept medicaid or medicare funding know there are strings attached. rules and things tied to the money so its not surprising. interesting make-up. 6-3, 3 dissenting in the osha case, we heard from them last week in some cases hyperbolic and i...

At helpfosterchildren.com it is the top of a very busy hour. im alisyn camerota. >> im victor blackwell. it is a major breaking news day. first this new indictment in the january 6 investigation reveals how one far right group prepared for potential violence. the justice department has charged 11 defendants with seditious conspiracy. meantime the supreme court has blocked president trumps testing mandate for large businesses, but it allows vaccine mandates for health care workers to take effec...

Are suing and this is probably medium-sized businesses who say that many of their workers will simply quit and go to work for smaller companies that they cant force their workers to get vaccines. trucking companies, for example, say it doesnt make sense to impose a testing mandate that there is no parking lot for semi trucks at walgreens or cvs. so the argument in both cases -- and, by the way, these are very consequential cases because they affect potentially 100 million americans, people who e...

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SACRAMENTO—California is to potentially pass legislation that will require all schools to create a COVID-19 testing plan to ...

The Supreme Court of the United States issued its opinions in each of the CMS and OSHA vaccination requirement cases in Biden v. Missouri and Nat’l Federation of Independent Business v. Dept. of Labor, permitting the vaccine mandate for nearly 10 million healthcare workers

The Supreme Court of the United States issued its opinions in each of the CMS and OSHA vaccination requirement cases in Biden v. Missouri and Nat’l Federation of Independent Business v. Dept. of Labor, permitting the vaccine mandate for nearly 10 million healthcare workers