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Mukasey rapped on reporter shield bill
Associated Press WriterLawmakers chided Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Wednesday for claiming national security concerns in opposing legislation that would allow reporters to protect the identities of confidential sources. "Ten angels swearing on Bibles that that bill is...Tags: Political Candidates, National Government, News Media, Freedom of the Press, Upper House
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Villaraigosa seeks to build Latino support for Obama
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWhen a Spanish-language radio ad slammed presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama for just discovering the "importance of the Latino vote," his campaign called on Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to knock the attack down. Villaraigosa issued a public...Tags: Political Candidates, Local Elections, Teaching and Learning, James Hahn, Pets and Pet Supplies
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Obama vs Jesse: not just jealousy?
The Swampby Frank James The ever thoughtful Shelby Steele has an interesting take on why Jesse Jackson obviously isn't feeling Sen. Barack Obama the way so many other African Americans are. The editors of The Wall Street Journal's op-ed page gave......Tags: Political Candidates, Elections, Martin Luther King Jr., Booker T. Washington, NAACP
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Italy Drops Plan For Fingerprinting
Italian officials carrying out a survey of the country's Gypsy population will only fingerprint those who don't have a valid ID, the Interior Ministry said Tuesday, apparently dropping plans to fingerprint all Gypsies after critics called it...Tags: Human Rights, Local Authority, Civil Rights
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Court affirms Va. council's prayer policy
Associated Press WriterThe Fredericksburg City Council's policy prohibiting a member from opening meetings with a prayer mentioning Jesus does not violate his free-speech rights, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of...Tags: Trials, Belief and Faith, National Government, Heads of State, Government
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Watching spies
Should police be able to spy on our neighbors within limits? That's the challenging, post- 9/11 question a committee of Maryland legislators will have to confront this fall as it investigates a wasteful, lengthy state police intelligence unit's...Tags: Martin O'Malley, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Punishment, Police, Government
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Arrest may turn page for Serbia
Chicago Tribune reportersOver the past decade, as borders and barriers across an increasingly integrated Europe seemingly fell with each passing day, new ones were being constructed around Serbia. Most Serbs chafed under their deepening isolation, but a sense of national...Tags: Political Candidates, Civil Unrest, National Government, Police, International Court or Tribunal
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Ex-Haitian strongman testifies at NY fraud trial
Associated Press WriterCivil rights groups claim he was a killer in Haiti but when Emmanuel "Toto" Constant took the witness stand Wednesday, it was to challenge a more mundane label: real estate swindler. The former Haitian paramilitary leader, testifying in his own...Tags: Trials, Real Estate, Punishment, Extradition, Prisons
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He's hired. She's fired. Same worker.
Associated PressATLANTA — A former Georgia state employee claimed Tuesday in a federal lawsuit that top legislative officials fired her because she said she would come to work dressed as a female as she prepared for a sex-change procedure to transform from man to...Tags: Trials, Glenn Richardson, Eric Johnson, Georgia, House
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History captured in glory, shame
The nickname for athletic teams at Iowa State University is "the Cyclones." The nickname for athletic teams at the University of Iowa is "the Hawkeyes." So I made a mistake in a recent column about former U.S. Naval Academy wrestlers Lloyd Keaser and...Tags: Demonstration, Movies, University of Iowa, Society, National Football League
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