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NSA surveillance in perspective
President Barack Obama is under harsh attack for stating the obvious: No amount of government ingenuity will guarantee the American people 100 percent security, 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience. He was answering a burst of more heated...Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Executive Branch, Justice System, Political Corruption, Judges
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Chicago's gun registry on the ropes
Chicago's 3-year-old gun registry could go away as part of the concealed carry law state lawmakers recently passed, but few are publicly mourning the loss of a database once heralded as a key part of the city's gun control laws. The registry, put in...
Tags: Richard M. Daley, Chicago Police Department, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Firearms, University of Chicago
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James Holmes can wear street clothes during movie massacre trial
CENTENNIAL, Colo. -- The judge in James E. Holmes' murder trial in the Aurora movie theater massacre ruled Tuesday that the defendant can wear street clothes to court and that prospective jurors will not be sequestered during what is expected to be a...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Trials, Arts and Culture, Justice System, Judges
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Tall Ship Amistad Missing In Action
Connecticut residents who wish to visit the state's tall ship Amistad will have a hard time figuring out its whereabouts. Those wishing to donate to Amistad America Inc., the nonprofit that owns the ship, will run into a similar dead end. The website...
Tags: The Amistad, Internal Revenue Service
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L.A. Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey makes a case for justice for all
Fifty years after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in Brady vs. Maryland, which established that prosecutors have a constitutional obligation to disclose information favorable to defendants, the debate continues over whether prosecutors...
Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Defendants, Labor Legislation
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Did State Democrats Just Ruin Connecticut's Campaign-Financing System?
Once upon a time (like just a few years ago), Connecticut's public campaign finance system had the look of a bright knight on a white horse guarding a goddess of political purity who held aloft a torch to light the way for other states. We'd done away...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Regional Authority, Executive Branch, Republican Party, Democratic Party
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10 things you might not know about Wrigley Field
Amid all the wrangling over renovations and increased signage at Wrigley Field, we'd like to explode a few myths about the 99-year-old ballpark. As Ernie Banks might put it, let's play 10: 1 The ballpark you know as Wrigley Field, home of the Cubs, used...
Tags: Chicago Cubs, Soldier Field, Arts and Culture, Grantland Rice, Sports
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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer pushes through Obama's Medicaid expansion
TUCSON — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer won a battle with state lawmakers this week, defying most other conservatives in her party to get a key component of President Obama’s Medicaid expansion through the Legislature. The Arizona Senate voted...
Tags: Regional Authority, Medicaid, Executive Branch, Justice System, Government Health Care
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Doctors brace for pain as 10% cut to Medi-Cal rates looms
In a office decorated with Chinese art and diagrams of body parts, Dr. George Ma cares for more than 4,000 patients. Nearly three-quarters are covered by Medi-Cal, the state's public insurance program for low-income Californians, and Ma said he receives...
Tags: Medicaid, Government Health Care, Medical Specialization, Hospitals and Clinics, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Justice delayed in Maryland
The retirement next month of Chief Judge Robert M. Bell of the Maryland Court of Appeals is a critical event, the first transition in the leadership of Maryland's courts in nearly 20 years. A matter of central importance for the new chief judge must...
Tags: Politics, Justice System, Executive Branch, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges
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BRCA gene decision hailed
Jewish breast cancer survivors were among the people celebrating a recent United States Supreme Court decision. The high court ruled unanimously that patents cannot be held on naturally occurring human genes. The decision came in a case in which...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Biology, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Genetics
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Review: "Roberts Court" by Marcia Coyle
At his confirmation hearings for the position of chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, John G. Roberts Jr. parried skeptics with a reassuring metaphor: "Judges are like umpires," he testified. "Umpires don't make the rules, they apply them. The role of...
Tags: Sandra Day O'Connor, Politics, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges
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