Nation Jun 23 McChrystal Relieved of Afghan Post; Obama Names Petraeus as Successor President Obama relieved Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, from command Wednesday after the general and his aides disparaged Obama administration officials and policy in a magazine article. President Obama announced that he was nominating Gen.
Politics Jun 21 Supreme Court Upholds Anti-Terror Law, Rejecting Free Speech Claims In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that a federal law making it a crime to provide "material support" to organizations designated as terrorist groups by the State Department is not unconstitutionally vague. The case, Holder…
Politics Jun 17 Supreme Court Says City Did Not Violate Rights in Reading Cop’s Texts The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that the city of Ontario, Calif., did not violate a police officer's Fourth Amendment rights when it searched his work pager for text messages. The case, Quon v. City of Onatrio, involved…
Politics Jun 07 Oil Spill Liability a Complicated Legal Web As oil continues to leak into the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank, the amount of legal damages that BP and other companies might owe is an evolving issue before Congress.
Politics Jun 01 Supreme Court Rules Suspects Must Tell Police They Wish To Remain Silent The Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision Tuesday that suspects under interrogation must tell police that they wish to remain silent, as opposed to simply remaining silent. Van Chester Thompkins challenged his murder conviction on the grounds that by…
Science May 28 Obama Tells Gulf Residents That “Buck Stops With Me” _pap_embed_custom('news01s4013qebd',482,304,""); President Barack Obama said Friday that the U.S. government is doing everything it can to permanently stop the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico and to mitigate the damage done to the local ecosystem and economy. In televised…
Science May 27 Liveblogging Oil Leak Developments: Spill Now Worst in U.S. History UPDATED: 6:13 PM: The New York Times is reporting that the top kill procedure has been halted by BP Thursday afternoon "when engineers saw that too much of the drilling fluid they were injecting into the well was escaping…
Politics May 24 Supreme Court Rules NFL May Face Antitrust Lawsuit The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that the National Football League could face an antitrust lawsuit over its exclusive apparel contract with Reebok. The court reversed the decision of two lower courts, which had dismissed the lawsuit from American Needle,…
Politics May 20 Video: Calderon Asks Congress to Pass Immigration Reform _pap_embed_custom('news01s3fcdqebd',482,304,""); In an address to a joint session of Congress, Mexican President Felipe Calderon described the flow of immigrants from his country into the United States as a shared problem and asked the Congress to consider comprehensive immigration reform.
Politics May 19 Lincoln, Halter to Face Each Other in Runoff in Arkansas Primary Incumbent Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln and Lt. Gov. Bill Halter will face each other again in a June 8 runoff after neither candidate received 50 percent of the vote in Tuesday's Democratic primary. Lincoln, elected to the Senate in 1998,…