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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by Vanessa Leggett, the Houston-based writer who spent 168 days in prison for refusing to turn over her interviews about a Texas murder case to a federal grand jury.

Elizabeth Farnsworth gets an on-the-scene perspective of the Middle East violence from James Bennet, Jerusalem bureau chief for The New York Times.