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    Justice O'Connor's Legacy

    Jul 01, 2005 04:00 AM EST

    ... decisions for everyone.RAY SUAREZ: And, quickly before we go, I guess the protégé is becoming the colleague. Tell us about the course you're teaching with her. RONNELL ANDERSON JONES: Justice O'Connor has agreed to teach a class here at the University of Arizona entitled, appropriately enough, the ...

  • News Hour West signs off

    News Hour West signs off

    Dec 19, 2025 11:25 PM EST

    ... to miss all of you. You made my job awesome. And I love you. Thank you. Geoff Bennett: Well, thanks to all of you there for your hard work over the years and for the terrific reporting you have brought to the "News Hour." We are most appreciative. And, Stephanie ...

  • Digital archive aims to preserve Bayard Rustin's legacy as a queer Civil Rights activist

    Digital archive aims to preserve Bayard Rustin's legacy as a queer Civil Rights activist

    Jul 08, 2025 06:47 PM EST

    ... just that moment but of the movement, has enabled so many of us to continue to do things that are a direct result of his teaching and sacrifice,” said Johns. He is the CEO and executive director of the National Black Justice Collective, which attributes its advocacy successes in the ...

  • Bryan Kohberger pleads guilty to murder after admitting to brutal stabbing deaths of 4 Idaho students

    Bryan Kohberger pleads guilty to murder after admitting to brutal stabbing deaths of 4 Idaho students

    Jul 02, 2025 06:25 PM EST

    ... Kohberger as a possible suspect and accessed cellphone data to pinpoint his movements the night of the killings. At the time, Kohberger was a criminal justice graduate student at nearby Washington State University who had just completed his first semester and was a teaching assistant in the criminology program. Kohberger ...

  • Judge blocks Trump push to cut public school funding over diversity programs

    Judge blocks Trump push to cut public school funding over diversity programs

    Apr 24, 2025 09:39 PM EST

    CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday blocked Trump administration directives that threatened to cut federal funding for public schools with diversity, equity and inclusion programs. The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by the National Education Association and the American Civil Liberties Union, which accused the Republican ...

  • Pope Francis, history's first Latin American pontiff, dies at 88

    Pope Francis, history's first Latin American pontiff, dies at 88

    Apr 21, 2025 08:54 AM EST

    ... the pope had intervened on behalf of prosecutors. While earning praise for trying to turn the Vatican’s finances around, Francis angered U.S. conservatives for his frequent excoriation of the global financial market that favors the rich over the poor. Economic justice was an important themes of his papacy ...

  • Vatican notes 'exchange of opinions' with Vance over migrants and prisoners

    Vatican notes 'exchange of opinions' with Vance over migrants and prisoners

    Apr 19, 2025 05:14 PM EST

    ... administration’s plans to deport migrants en masse. Francis has made caring for migrants a hallmark of his papacy and his progressive views on social justice issues have often put him at odds with members of the more conservative U.S. Catholic Church. Francis also changed church teaching to say ...

  • World leaders react to former President Jimmy Carter's death

    World leaders react to former President Jimmy Carter's death

    Dec 29, 2024 11:15 PM EST

    Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is remembering Carter as a man steeped “in devotion to public service and peace.” The California Democrat said in a statement Sunday that Carter was committed to “honoring the spark of divinity within every person,” something she said manifested in “teaching Sunday school in his ...

  • The barriers women still face in the legal profession decades after O'Connor's appointment

    The barriers women still face in the legal profession decades after O'Connor's appointment

    Dec 18, 2023 11:35 PM EST

    ... successful women partners, because we need the role models for these women who are coming up through the ranks that there is indeed a future for them in this profession. John Yang: Talk about role models, to what extent was Justice O'Connor a role model when she became the ...

  • State Rep. Justin Pearson reinstated to Tennessee House after expulsion

    State Rep. Justin Pearson reinstated to Tennessee House after expulsion

    Apr 13, 2023 05:28 PM EST

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The second of two Black Democrats who were kicked out of the Republican-led Tennessee House followed his colleague back to work at the Capitol on Thursday, a week after their expulsion for participating in a gun control protest propelled them into the national spotlight. State Rep ...