NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City municipal pool that maintains female-only hours so that Hasidic Jewish women can swim with no men present has raised alarms among critics who say the accommodation violates the constitutional separation of church and state as well as laws against discrimination by sex.
But defenders say the women-only swim sessions at the Metropolitan Recreation Center give women whose community separates the sexes a rare chance to exercise.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump's comments about a U.S.-born judge of Mexican heritage are the "textbook definition of a racist comment," U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday. Later in the day, Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, said his remarks have been "misconstrued" and he is justified in questioning the fairness of legal proceedings overseen by the jurist in San Diego.
Ryan, the highest elected GOP official, told reporters that "claiming a person can't do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment. I think that should be absolutely disavowed. It's absolutely unacceptable."
