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Adeel Hassan

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Uganda New York Times world
3 Oct 2019
In one of the most closely watched lawsuits concerning affirmative action and higher education, a federal judge Tuesday ruled that Harvard could continue considering race in its admissions process in pursuit of a diverse class.
5 Takeaways From the Harvard Admissions Ruling
Uganda New York Times world
22 Aug 2019
March for Our Lives, a group led by student survivors of last year’s mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, unveiled an ambitious gun control platform on Wednesday that would ban assault-style weapons, raise the minimum age for buying firearms, create a national gun registry and require gun owners to pay for new licenses each year.
Parkland Survivors Unveil Plan on Guns
Uganda New York Times world
22 Aug 2019
March for Our Lives, a group led by student survivors of last year’s mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, unveiled an ambitious gun control platform on Wednesday that would ban assault-style weapons, raise the minimum age for buying firearms, create a national gun registry and require gun owners to pay for new licenses each year.
Parkland Survivors Unveil Plan on Guns
Uganda New York Times world
31 Jul 2019
To the strains of the hymn “If We Just Talk of Thoughts and Prayers,” the largest Presbyterian denomination in the United States ordained The Rev. Deanna Hollas as its first minister of gun violence prevention this month.
A Ministry Pushing Beyond 'Thoughts and Prayers'
Uganda New York Times world
20 Jul 2019
A murderer with a long history of violence against women — but who had been freed from prison and deemed unlikely to hurt anyone again because of his advancing age — was convicted by a jury in Maine this week in the stabbing death of a mother of twin boys.
Uganda New York Times world
19 Jul 2019
A murderer with a long history of violence against women — but who had been freed from prison and deemed unlikely to hurt anyone again because of his advancing age — was convicted by a jury in Maine this week in the stabbing death of a mother of twin boys.
Uganda New York Times world
8 May 2019
Questions have surrounded the death of Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old black activist, since she was found hanged in a Texas police cell in July 2015 after she was arrested during a traffic stop.
Uganda New York Times world
4 May 2019
In one of the largest settlements of a case involving a fatal police shooting, the city of Minneapolis agreed Friday to pay $20 million to the family of an unarmed woman who was killed by an officer when she approached his car after he responded to her 911 call.
Minneapolis to pay $20 million to family of police shooting victim
Uganda New York Times world
26 Apr 2019
A white supremacist who deliberately plowed his Jeep into a black teenager was sentenced last week to at least 28 years in prison for what is believed to be Oregon’s first hate crime murder conviction in more than three decades. He could have faced as much as 20 additional years in prison if not for an unusual quirk in Oregon law, which imposes softer penalties on anyone who commits a hate crime alone rather than with an accomplice.
Uganda New York Times world
13 Apr 2019
Students at Georgetown University voted Thursday to increase their tuition to benefit descendants of the 272 enslaved Africans that the Jesuits who ran the school sold nearly two centuries ago to secure its financial future.
Georgetown Students Agree to Create Reparations Fund
Uganda New York Times world
30 Mar 2019
With guns drawn, the police officers broke down the door of the suburban Phoenix home in the early hours of a February morning. “Come out with your hands up!” an officer yelled, with the dark front porch and foyer inside suddenly flooded with light from the officers’ flashlights.
Uganda New York Times world
29 Mar 2019
With guns drawn, the police officers broke down the door of the suburban Phoenix home in the early hours of a February morning. “Come out with your hands up!” an officer yelled, with the dark front porch and foyer inside suddenly flooded with light from the officers’ flashlights.