Immigration. A bill that aims to ban ethnic studies in Arizona schools was signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Jan Brewer, cheering critics who called such classes divisive and alarming others who said it's yet another law targeting Latinos in the state.
New U.K. Prime Minister. Prime Minister David Cameron has said the U.K.'s first coalition in decades could mark a "historic and seismic shift" in British politics.
Egypt. After years of the government’s promising to end Egypt’s state of emergency, Parliament on Tuesday approved a government request to extend for two years its right to arrest people without charge, detain prisoners indefinitely, limit freedom of expression and assembly, and maintain a special security court.
Quote of the Day. “It was kind of an epiphany. We were giving them nice land to live on when what they were doing -- and what they needed -- was an underground railway.” Alan Rabinowitz, zoologist and president of Panthera, an organization that studies and promotes conservation of large cats, on the development of corridors to serve as migration routes between wildlife sanctuaries. (New York Times)
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