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In the most recent order, Judge O'Connor did raise the prospect that if he decides against precedent that the case belongs in federal court, he might grant the request to temporarily enjoin the deferred action policy on the grounds that 1996 immigration law amendments appear to require ICE agents to at least begin removal proceedings against DREAMers they encounter. But in a Yale Law Journal article, immigration law expert David A. Martin strenuously disputed this proposed statutory interpretation, based on his "extensive involvement as General Counsel of the Immigration and Naturaliz...

Exact figures for second divorces are hard to come by. “Divorce rates are always tricky,” says Skip Burzumato, assistant director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. “People are still married and not divorced yet, so we really don’t know until the generation is gone what the divorce rate is. If everyone would simultaneously die, I could tell you exactly what the divorce rate is.” Burzumato and psychiatrist Mark Banschick, author of The Intelligent Divorce, estimate that approximately two-thirds of second marriages end in divorce. 

For the past 50 years, teams of editors have been copying documents from historical collections scattered around the world that serve as a record of the Founding Era. They have transcribed hundreds of thousands of documents – letters, diaries, ledgers, and the first drafts of history – and have researched and provided annotation and context to deepen our understanding of these documents. These papers have been assembled in 242 documentary editions covering the works of Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison, as well...

A solar-powered wheelchair. Stop and think about that for a moment. If we can devise a solar-powered wheelchair — as a team from University of Virginia did, with some members working out of the National Institute of Aerospace in Hampton — can there really be anything that is beyond the scope of what we can imagine and then make real?

"Given the rising role of women as breadwinners in a large minority of families, it's important to realize that men bring more than money to the parenting enterprise," said W. Brad Wilcox, a sociologist at the University of Virginia who studies marriage and families.

"The government is expressly prohibited from intentionally targeting any person known at the time of the surveillance to be located in the United States," said Molly Bishop Shadel, a University of Virginia law professor who once worked for the Justice Department representing the United States on terrorism-related matters before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. "But that doesn't mean the government can never surveil people in the U.S.; it just means they can't do it under Section 702."

On Sunday, 19-year-old Sarah Sisson will run the Mary Washington Healthcare Cancer 5K Run/Walk for her mother, who is in remission after three bouts of breast cancer. Sisson, a rising junior at the University of Virginia, also ran the Boston Marathon this year for her mother.

When her new lungs do get working for Sarah, doctors say she'll notice the difference immediately. "So you go, if you can imagine, from being short of breath all the time, from going to bed short of breath, from waking up short of breath, always with a sense of chronic suffocation, to being able to breathe normally," Dr. Benjamin Gaston of University of Virginia Hospital told Fox News. 

Thursday night, never before seen films of Charlottesville will be revealed. The rare films were taken by a doctor at the University of Virginia in the 1920s – and now his son is sharing them with the whole community.   

(Commentary co-written by Martha Derthick, professor emerita of government) In their ideal world, school finance reformers would not rely on state-level lawsuits but would look to a reconstituted U.S. Supreme Court, with a liberal majority, to overturn San Antonio v. Rodriguez, the landmark decision of 1973 that declined to strike down Texas’s system of school finance as a violation of equal protection. Were educational equity to be guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, a whole new world of litigation would be open to them, and interstate as well as intrastate differences and inadequacies...

When discussing the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to nuclear war, it is common to frame it within 13 days. This is because the first account of how President John F. Kennedy handled the crisis, written by his brother, then-Attorney General Robert Kennedy, in 1969, was titled “Thirteen Days” and later made in to a film by the same name. David Coleman, the chair of the Miller Center’s Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia, has written a new angle on this much-discussed element of the Cold War.

There are a number of specific conditions that have to be met for a leaker like Snowden to have committed treason, said John Harrison, a University of Virginia law professor who specializes in constitutional law and history. “Unless the potential defendant is someone who engaged in hostilities, … the question is whether he adhered to the U.S.’s enemies and gave them aid and comfort, which, in turn, depends on who is an enemy,” Harrison said. If the enemy is considered to be a member of Al Qaeda, it opens up all sorts of other questions about the definition of enemy tha...

Mark Blatt of Potomac, a 2013 graduate of Landon School, Bethesda; Sarah Lott Wyckoff of Bethesda, a senior at Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, Washington, D.C.; and Aryn Aliya Frazier of Silver Spring, a graduate of James Hubert Blake High School, Silver Spring, were among 33 students from across the globe selected to join the new class of Jefferson Scholars at the University of Virginia.

Nearly 60 years after the Supreme Court outlawed racial segregation in public schools, African-American adolescents of all socioeconomic backgrounds continue to face instances of racial discrimination in the classroom. A new study sheds light on that and points to the need for students of color to rely on personal and cultural assets to succeed academically.

The Florida ocean currents were no match for former Juneau-Douglas High School and Glacier Swim Club athletes Cody Brunette, 21, and Kristin Jones, 23, during Saturday’s 12.3-mile Swim Around Key West. Brunette had the overall fastest time in four hours, 12 minutes and eight seconds. Jones finished in 5:16:37. The cause the duo was swimming for, Friedreich’s Ataxi Research Alliance, was just as powerful as their freestyle strokes. Brunette and Jones applied colored zinc oxide to paint a map of Alaska and FARA on each other’s backs.

Meghan O’Leary was restless. At 25, she was far too young for a midlife crisis. But O’Leary is an athlete, and an athlete – more than an athlete, a competitor – needs to move with power and speed and purpose. To pursue victory. She had done this with volleyball, softball and basketball at Baton Rouge’s Episcopal High School, earning The Advocate’s Girls Athlete of the Year Award in 2003. She played varsity volleyball and softball at the University of Virginia. That background helped her land a job with sports broadcasting giant ESPN, initially as a productio...

Analysts say both Northam and attorney general nominee Mark Herring likely have their home supporters to thank in Hampton Roads and Northern Virginia. Geoff Skelley of the University of Virginia Center for Politics said, "That gives you perhaps a better geographical base of support in some instances, especially when you're running against two guys who have not held office in Virginia."

(Press release) The paper follows the completion of a project in cooperation with a team of technologists from the University of Virginia to create a low energy device to acquire physiological data from the human body, process that data, and transfer it through wireless communication.

When I met him at his cramped studio behind C’ville Coffee, the first thing John D’earth did was offer to teach me the trumpet. He insisted, in fact. We shook hands, and he told me he’d always wanted to be a writer. I said I’d always wanted to play the trumpet. So he cleaned his mouthpiece in the bathroom sink and handed me a horn.

Students at the University of Virginia have developed a new way of purifying water that they say could bring improved water quality for millions in the developing world.  It's called a Madi Drop. Field testing begins this month in South Africa.