Colleges have found a workaround to the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling this summer. While schools are now prohibited from accepting students based on race, there is a way for administrators to learn about a student’s ethnicity — the college essay. Colleges and universities across the U.S. are releasing essay prompts for student applications on…

The Biden administration launched a new beta website for its income driven repayment program called SAVE that was announced after the Supreme Court struck down its student loan forgiveness plan. The site will accept applications which take about 10 minutes to complete.  According to the Education Department, the new plan will help the typical borrower…

The Justice Department is asking a federal judge to order Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, R, to remove buoys in the Rio Grande that Abbott said are designed to deter illegal immigration. Attorneys argued if the buoys aren’t removed, it will cause irreparable harm to foreign relations, public safety and navigation.  The Justice Department also filed…

UPS and its union workers avoided a nationwide shipping crisis after agreeing to a work contract Tuesday, July 25. Had a deal not been reached by July 31, roughly 340,000 workers would have gone on strike in the largest single-employer strike in U.S. history. “We averted a catastrophe,” Patrick Penfield, a professor of supply chain…

Just weeks after the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action, the Department of Education launched a civil rights investigation into Harvard University’s legacy admissions policy. The practice of giving preferential treatment to the children or other relatives of alumni in college or university admissions has come under scrutiny since the affirmative action decision came down.…

A Biden administration policy that imposes limits on asylum seekers has been blocked by a federal judge. And we have an update on the condition of LeBron’s James’ son Bronny after he suffered cardiac arrest during basketball practice. It’s time for The Rundown for Wednesday, July 26, 2023. Judge blocks Biden asylum policy A federal…