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CHICAGO (AP) -- A federal judge in Chicago has refused to issue a subpoena for President Obama to testify at former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's political corruption trial. U.S. District Judge James Zagel ruled Friday that lawyers for Blagojevich had not produced sufficient evidence that Obama would have anything material to say on the witness ...
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PHOENIX (AP) -- Gov. Jan Brewer on Friday signed a follow-on bill approved by Arizona legislators that make revisions to the state's sweeping law against illegal immigration -- changes she says should quell concerns that the measure will lead to racial profiling. The law requires local and state law enforcement to question people about their immigration ...
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CBS3: Trenton Police have arrested a man who attacked his neighbor with a bow and arrow Thursday evening. Just after 11 p.m., police received a report that a man, identified as Anthony Giovannini, 35, was struck with what he believed was a rock as he was walking inside of his house on the 400 block of Franklin ...
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Fox News: Federal officials say they plan to investigate every possible cause of last week's massive explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico -- including the possibility of criminal acts or negligence. Launch Slideshow In the aftermath of the blast, an uncapped underwater oil well continues to leak an estimated 200,000 gallons of ...
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SECOND UPDATE: (PHOENIX) — A veteran sheriff's deputy was shot and wounded Friday after encountering a group of illegal immigrants who apparently had been hauling bales of marijuana along a major smuggling corridor in the Arizona desert — a violent episode that comes amid a heated national debate over immigration. State and federal law enforcement ...
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The Hill: Defense Secretary Robert Gates is pressing the House Armed Services Committee chairman to hold off on scrapping the ban on openly gay people serving in the military. In a letter to Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.), Gates said that he believes “in the strongest possible terms†that Congress should not take any legislative action to ...
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The Hill: Plans for expanded offshore drilling are facing growing political threats amid the worsening Gulf of Mexico oil spill that has begun reaching vulnerable coastal areas. Capitol Hill opponents have taken the offensive in recent days, and Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) said flatly on Friday that Senate climate and energy legislation would be “dead on arrival†...
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Jerusalem Post: Iran on Friday threatened to "cut off Israel's feet" if the latter attacks Syria, AFP reported. During a visit to Damascus, Iranian Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi said: “We will stand alongside Syria against any [Israeli] threat … If those who have violated Palestinian land want to try anything we will cut off their feet," ...
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Washington Times: The rapidly expanding environmental catastrophe caused by the oil spill off the coast of Louisiana is presenting a growing political challenge to the Obama White House, with Mr. Obama and his aides at pains to defend the response and forestall comparisons to the Hurricane Katrina crisis. Nine days after British Petroleum's Deepwater Horizon oil rig ...
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LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Thousands of mostly Hispanic immigrants will march in US cities Saturday to press for immigration reform and condemn Arizona's controversial new immigration law, organizers said. "It's important we unite and take part in a peaceful march to demand respect for our community's rights and dignity," said Eddie "Piolin" Sotelo, America's top Hispanic ...
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Washington Times: The Obama administration is pressing Congress to provide an exemption from Iran sanctions to companies based in "cooperating countries," a move that likely would exempt Chinese and Russian concerns from penalties meant to discourage investment in Iran. The Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act is in a House-Senate conference committee and is expected to ...
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Related - Landmark Ruling: Global Warming Belief Given Same Legal Status As Religion
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Oy vey, already Jerusalem Post: The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Thursday said that it is disturbed by the use of analogies to Nazis and the Holocaust in reaction to the recently-passed law in Arizona, which gives police the authority to detain people they suspect are illegal immigrants. The signing of the Arizona immigration law released a flood of ...
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Washington Post: A splintered Supreme Court displayed its deep divisions over the separation of church and state Wednesday, with the court's prevailing conservatives signaling a broader openness to the idea that the Constitution does not require the removal of religious symbols from public land. A 5 to 4 decision by the court overturns a federal judge's objection ...
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NY Times: A year ago, Tough Mudder was a semifinalist in the Harvard Business School’s annual Business Plan Contest. A British student named Will Dean thought he could attract 500 people to run a grueling race through mud and man-made obstacles. Professors generally considered the plan too optimistic. “That was a big discussion,†said David Godes, a ...
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Louisiana Muslims Nola.com: by James Gill Within minutes Monday a legislative committee repudiated both Islamic and British law. Neither, perhaps, represents an immediate threat to justice in Louisiana, but it was not entirely an alarmist and xenophobic stunt when the committee approved two bills by Rep. Ernest Wooton, R-Belle Chase. Mostly, but not entirely. One of Wooton's bills, which provides ...
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Washington Post: Nation's energy woes, economic crisis stand in contrast to rest of Latin America which is surging. CRISTOBAL, VENEZUELA -- Every day for the past three months, government-programmed blackouts have meant the lights flicker and go dark in a city that once bustled with commerce. And Fifth Street, with its auto parts stores and car repair ...
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ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) -- President Barack Obama said Wednesday that there "may not be an appetite" in Congress to deal with immigration immediately after going through a tough legislative year. With energy legislation on the table and midterm elections approaching, Obama said he didn't want to force an immigration bill through Congress "just for ...
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Hackey ISLAMABAD -- Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud is now believed to have survived a U.S. missile strike earlier this year, but has lost clout within the militant network, a senior intelligence officials said Thursday. The revelation contradicts initial confidence among U.S. and Pakistani intelligence officials that the brash militant leader had been killed in the mid-January ...
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