Hair cares: A Catholic school in Louisiana and the Archdiocese of New Orleans have moved a lawsuit regarding the school’s policy forbidding hair extensions to federal court. Attorneys for the Christ the King Parish School and archdiocese say federal court is the proper venue for a case alleging violations of the U.S. Constitution. The lawsuit by the families of two black students at the school say the policy is discriminatory because it blocked the girls from attending class. The school says it has since rescinded the policy. Read the full story.
Jobs abound: The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment aid fell to near a 49-year low last week and private payrolls rose steadily in August, Reuters reports. The Labor Department announced this morning that initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 10,000 to a seasonally adjusted 203,000 for the week ended Sept. 1, the lowest level since December 1969. Read the full story.
Big money: Hong Kong surpassed the Big Apple as the city with the highest population of people worth at least $30 million, Bloomberg reports. The former British colony saw its number of ultra-wealthy increase 31% last year, to about 10,000, research firm Wealth-X found, higher than the nearly 9,000-strong population of the U.S.’s largest city. Tokyo came third, while Paris beat out London to take the European crown as Brexit weighed down the U.K. capital. Read the full story.
