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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Tuesday that President Barack Obama’s administration has “fought against religion” and sought to substitute a “secular” agenda for one grounded in faith.

Yale University is condemning the monitoring of Muslim college students across the Northeast by the New York Police Department, calling it “antithetical to the values of Yale, the academic community, and the United States,” while Rutgers University and leaders of student Muslim groups are calling for investigations into the monitoring.

Rachel Held Evans, author of the recently published “A Year of Biblical Womanhood,” spoke at Chapel on Monday about her year-long project to discover how to live the life of a “biblical woman” according to laws set forth in Scripture.

Wanted: People who love to dance. Poppers, Lockers and Breakers is a hip-hop organization — the only one of its kind at Baylor — that has been dancing on campus at the McLane Student Life Center for three years.

Fifteen months after losing his bid for re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives, former Rep. Chet Edwards is not finished bringing attention to the issues on which he staked his political career.

Social Security disability laws, homeowners associations, the McDonald’s hot coffee case, privacy laws and the health care reform act will be new additions to the previously featured courses at the Seventh Annual People’s Law School on Saturday.

A special investigation will be launched to determine if a former prosecutor who is now a judge hid evidence in a trial that sent a man wrongly convicted of his wife’s murder to prison for nearly 25 years, Texas’ chief justice ordered Thursday.

Police arrested 17 students at Texas Christian University early Wednesday morning, including four members of the football team, as part of an investigation into students selling drugs.

The debate over the line between religious freedom and federal health care mandates has made its way into Massachusetts’ closely watched U.S. Senate race, with Republican Sen. Scott Brown accusing his chief Democratic rival of wanting to “dictate to religious people about what they should believe.”

“I like to read poetry, and I especially love to write it,” Amanda Hixson said. “I knew there were other writers out here in Waco like me, and I wanted to give them the opportunity to express themselves openly.”

The last of the once-ubiquitous FEMA trailers has been removed from New Orleans more than six years after floodwalls and levees broke during Hurricane Katrina and caused the city to fill with floodwater.