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AP: Many Defendants' Cases Kept Secret
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AP - Despite the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of public trials, nearly all records are being kept secret for more than 5,000 defendants who completed their journey through the federal ...
Senate ends feuding over pension negotiators WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate ended weeks of bickering over how many members of each party could participate in talks with the House on pension legislation, after a former ...
Puerto Rico gov. denounces statehood vote proposal ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Puerto Rican Gov. Anibal Acevedo-Vila denounced on Friday a new congressional proposal for a two-part referendum on the Caribbean island's legal status ...
Senate faces tough vote on raising debt limit WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A nasty budget fight is brewing in Congress as Senate Democrats and some conservative Republicans said on Friday that they will not support efforts this month to ...
Bush defends nuclear pact with India NEW DELHI (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Friday defended a controversial nuclear agreement with India against criticism from Democrats in the Congress who say the deal ...
Liberal California backs death penalty SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Californians overwhelmingly back the death penalty, according to a poll released on Friday, the latest indication most Americans continue to back a punishment ...
Jon Stewart: Won't spoil party as Oscars host LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - He is America's leading anti-establishment comic, chosen to host Hollywood's biggest insider event. But Jon Stewart knows that he dare not spoil Oscar's party.
SEC can partly roll back Sarbanes-Oxley: Oxley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Rep. Michael Oxley, an author of the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate reform law passed after Enron and other corporate scandals, said federal regulators have the ...
Playboy says won't pull Jessica Alba issue LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Playboy won't pull its March issue over actress Jessica Alba's claim that she was made an unwitting cover girl to fool readers into thinking she is nude ...
Northwest Airlines, pilots in tentative deal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Northwest Airlines and its pilots union reached a tentative agreement on $358 million in annual cost savings on Friday, in a deal that would resolve a bitter ...
Calif. girl's twice-stolen prosthetic legs returned LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two prosthetic legs stolen from a 16-year-old California girl have mysteriously turned up in her mother's van, the second time in three months that an ...
NY lawyer convicted in terrorism case has cancer NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York lawyer Lynne Stewart, a long-time defender of the poor and unpopular convicted of aiding terrorism, has breast cancer, according to a court letter filed ...
US lawyers attack Israeli security agent "thugs" CHICAGO (Reuters) - A confession extracted by torture at the hands of Israeli security "thugs" should not be allowed in an American court, lawyers for a Palestinian immigrant accused ...
Battle brews as S. Dakota abortion law nears KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - U.S. abortion-rights defenders and opponents are preparing for battle as South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds considers whether to sign a state abortion ...
Bush takes a swing at cricket in Pakistan ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush, an avid baseball fan, on Saturday tried his hand at a sport hugely popular in parts of the old British empire -- cricket -- and ...
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