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DC police adopt new uniform accommodations for Sikhs to don turbans, beards
The Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) is now the first major American police department to adopt a uniform policy allowing Sikhs to wear beards and turbans while serving in uniform as law enforcement officers.

Cooley Welcomes Experienced Securities Litigator Lyle Roberts in Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON, DC-- - Cooley LLP announced today that Lyle Roberts has joined the firm's Washington, D.C. office as a partner in its Securities Litigation practice group. Roberts joins Cooley from Dewey & ...

Obama ed chief criticizes Florida’s GOP-led Legislature on tutoring standard
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan teed off Thursday on Florida’s Republican-ruled Legislature for effectively sidestepping spending flexibility the federal government had granted the state under No Child Left Behind. Speaking in Washington, D.C. ,to the Florida Council of 100, the business-dominated advisory group, Duncan criticized lawmakers for requiring school districts to spend 15 percent ...