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... a driver could still refuse to take the test and face lesser charges for obstruction of a warrant than for violating drunken driving test laws. Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the state could simply change the law to make penalties more severe for obstruction. Several justices seemed to be searching for ...
This week, a human rights group in Argentina said a man who disappeared more than 40 years ago under the country’s military dictatorship had been identified and reunited with his sister. But there are concerns that the current government is reversing longstanding policy to continue searching for tens of ...
... Department of Homeland Security searched two university residences with a warrant Thursday evening. No one was arrested, and it was unclear whom the authorities were searching for, but by Friday afternoon U.S. officials had announced developments related to two people they had pursued in connection with the demonstrations. A ...
... today. I still miss her every day. It's been a very long and painful journey, but we finally got the answers we have been searching for all these years.Amna Nawaz: Van der Sloot's plea agreement carries a 20-year term for trying to extort money from Holloway ...
... guidelines for looted art restitution. The document included guidelines for collectors who are facing a claim by prewar owners and says the parties should aim for a “just and fair solution.”“This has nothing to do with money. It is about justice and a duty to remember." -- Leone Meyer, Holocaust ...
After officially announcing that terrorists were responsible for attacks on a U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, the U.S. intelligence community is pursuing alleged suspects. Margaret Warner talks to The Wall Street Journal's Siobhan Gordon and Greg Miller of the Washington Post for more on the state of security ...
... looking at this-- I know I looked at the letters initially-- when we look at those, there are so many points, Margaret. Let's say, for example, the date, September 11. We know the letters were mailed a week and three weeks later but the writer tried so hard to ...
... the people that he's seeking to surveil or wiretap don't have the intent to cause death or imminent harm. He's basically asking for emergency authority under emergency circumstances and not to play one Justice off against the other but Oliver Wendell Holmes, who we view as a ...
... to the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council to find another prosecutor to take the case. The council's executive director, Pete Skandalakis, said Tuesday he will begin searching for a new prosecutor to replace Willis but didn't know how long that might take. Skandalakis said that once the new prosecutor is ...
... nearly $2 billion in federal funds meant for Cornell and Northwestern universities. The freeze includes more than $1 billion to Cornell and about $790 million for northwestern. Neither school says it's heard yet from the White House or Department of Education on the basis for the freeze, but the ...
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