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The Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 that districts in Seattle and Louisville, Ky., went too far in their school-desegregation plans by using a student's race to determine which school he or she is assigned to.

The Census Bureau has released new information about immigrants in America. The overall number of immigrants has been rising sharply in this decade. More than 35.5 million immigrants now live in U.S. households.

The Creation Museum opened its doors in northern Kentucky on Monday. Hundreds of people lined up for the opening of the $27 million museum, which promotes the idea that the Bible is more accurate than evolutionary science.

As many as 12 million undocumented workers could achieve legal status under a bill approved by the White House and a bipartisan group of senators. The deal means Congress is a step closer to passing the long-awaited overhaul of U.S. immigration policy.

Author Laura Sessions Stepp has a new book about the emotional lives of young women today. It's called Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both.

Oil industry services company Halliburton is moving its CEO and other corporate leadership to new headquarters in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

Dana Milbank, a columnist for The Washington Post, offers his view of former Vice President Al Gore's appearance on Capitol Hill. Milbank says that Gore's testimony on global warming was solid, but didn't live up to its billing.

Saeid Zeiaei and his wife Hadija Faraji became U.S. citizens last year. They have two young children born in the United States. The family embraces America but continues to preserve their Iranian heritage, too.

Thousands of people turned out Tuesday night for a candlelight vigil in Blacksburg, Va. The mourners remembered those killed Monday in two campus shootings, one of which is blamed on a 23-year-old Virginia Tech student.

Immigration rights activists are calling for rallies and boycotts Tuesday against a federal crackdown on undocumented workers. In Chicago, one woman has avoided deportation for eight months by taking refuge in a church.