( Reuters)-The U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights is investigating whether Harvard racially discriminates by favoring applicants with ties to donors and alumni in its admissions process, according to a letter from the agency. The probe comes in response to a complaint filed on July 3 by three civil rights groups, who argued that Harvard College's preference for" legacy" undergraduate applicants overwhelmingly benefits white students, violating a law that bans race discrimination

Mayor Sokhary Chau addresses the assembly during the Lowell City Council swearing-in ceremony on Jan.... He also became the city's first Asian American mayor.... I was a refugee, now I'm mayor of a major city in Massachusetts," the 49-year-old, who works for the U.S. Social Security Administration, said after being officially sworn in....

BOSTON--A refugee who survived the Khmer Rouge’s brutal rule has become the first Cambodian American mayor in the United States. Sokhary Chau, a city councilor in Lowell, Massachusetts, was unanimously picked by his council peers to assume the legislative body’s top post on Monday.... He also became the city’s first Asian American mayor.“ God bless America, right?... I was a refugee, now I’m mayor of a major city in Massachusetts, ” the 49-year-old, who works for the U.S. Social Security Admin