Oberlin College was forced to pay a local bakery  $36.59 million last week after a court ruled the school had defamed the bakery following a 2016 incident with three black students.

Federal, state, and local authorities along the U.S.-Mexico border have been readying for a possible rise in the already record numbers of migrant crossings if COVID-era restrictions are lifted this week, with some estimating tens of thousands of people are waiting in Mexico for news of the policy change.

In a 4-3 decision, North Carolina’s Supreme Court struck down the state’s voter identification requirement on Friday, with the Democratic majority ruling that it violated the state’s constitution and that it was “enacted with a racially discriminatory purpose.”

A former English teacher in Ohio alleges she was forced to leave her position because she insisted that using pupils’ preferred pronouns went against her religious convictions.