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“Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime” was a phrase uttered by Tony Blair pretty early on in his time as Leader of the Labour Party. It was short, punchy sentences like this that symbolised the ‘sound-bite’ style of “New Labour’s...
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AP, San Antonio
Tommy Lee Jones is suing the makers of “No Country for Old Men” for more than $10 million that the Oscar-winning actor claims he is owed for starring in the...
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AP, Miami
The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Hurricane Ike has intensified to a dangerous Category 4 storm with winds sustained at 135 mph.
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AP, Terre Haute
For the second time this year, mechanical problems have forced Democrat Barack Obama to change charter airplanes on short notice.
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AP, Terre Haute
Barack Obama lays out his benchmarks for a government takeover of troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but says he’ll withhold judgment until he...
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AP, Colorado Springs
The banners, buttons and signs say McCain-Palin, but the crowds say something else.
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AP, Mount Laurel
A former New Jersey lawmaker with a national reputation for pushing welfare reform is facing charges of using his political clout to land no-work government jobs as a...
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AP, Colorado Springs
John McCain and Sarah Palin are riding their post-convention wave into competitive Western states, where Democrats have made gains in traditional Republican...
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AP, Washington
A top House Democrat confirmed Saturday that the government is planning to intervene to stabilize troubled mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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AP, New York
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton marched for labor and stumped with Democrats on Saturday, but sidestepped questions about the woman who has taken her place as the...
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AP, Frankfort
Authorities in northern Illinois say an explosion has destroyed a house and the bodies of the elderly couple who occupied the home have been found in the wreckage.
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AP, New York
Nobody draws attention like Lindsay Lohan and gal pal Samantha Ronson.
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AP, Pasadena
Two teenage girls are accused of stabbing a 75-year-old man to death in a robbery that netted them just $15, and police say the mother of one of the teens helped put...
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AP, Miami
The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Hurricane Ike has again intensified to a Category 3 storm with winds sustained at 115 mph.
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AP, Miami
For those who live in its path, hurricane season stirs up anxiety even before devastating winds and rains hit land.
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AP, Seattle
Ron Reagan, the liberal son of the late President Ronald Reagan, is going back on the radio.
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AP, Miami
The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Ike has been downgraded to a Category 2 storm with winds sustained at 110 mph.
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AP, Duryea
The challenge for Barack Obama is to make himself acceptable enough to disgruntled voters eager to toss Republicans from the White House if they see a comfortable,...
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AP, Raleigh
Tropical Storm Hanna accelerated toward New England on Saturday after the storm’s whipping winds and rain didn’t linger long enough over the Southeast to...
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AP, Washington
Flanked by officials from the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center, FBI Director Robert Mueller last year announced with considerable fanfare a new partnership...
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AP, Washington
Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama are putting aside partisan politics for a joint appearance at Ground Zero to mark the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
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AP, Washington
It used to be, when Jack Abramoff needed something, he had an address book full of powerful Capitol Hill contacts to call on, people he plied with expensive meals,...
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AP, Washington
The Justice Department is asking for a dramatic reduction in prison time for imprisoned lobbyist Jack Abramoff in exchange for cooperating with a massive FBI corruption...
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AP, Columbus
Former congressman Bob Ney of Ohio has been released from a halfway house in Cincinnati after serving a sentence in connection with a public corruption scandal.
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AP, Sao Paulo
Officials say a bomb has exploded outside a maximum security penitentiary in southeastern Brazil and opened a hole in one of the prison walls.
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AP, Mexico City
Mexican authorities say two prison guards have been sentenced to eight and 19 years in jail, respectively, for helping suspected drug lord Joaquin “El...
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Capital punishment, more popularly known as the death penalty is the execution of a person by the state as punishment for a crime. The discussion regarding the death...
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AP, Baghdad
In the flatlands north of Baghdad sits a prison with no prisoners. It holds something else: a chronicle of U.S. government waste, misguided planning and construction...
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On the eve of a Lords ruling over US demands for his extradition, a British computer hacker claims that American prosecutors threatened to haul him before a military...
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AP, Kinshasa
At least 26 prisoners have died of hunger in a prison in Congo since the beginning of the year, U.N. officials said.The United Nations Mission in Congo sent a team to...
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AP, Beirut
An international human rights watchdog is urging Syria to order an independent investigation into the shooting of inmates during a prison riot earlier this month.The...
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AP, Beirut
An international human rights watchdog is urging Syria to order an independent investigation into the shooting of inmates during a prison riot earlier this month.The...
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According to the New York Times, children forced to sell their bodies in the US in order to survive are processed by the authorities as criminals.
In Venezuela, the...
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AP, Dublin
Ireland’s prison service says guards armed with clubs and riot shields stormed a recreation area at Dublin’s main prison where 50 inmates had barricaded...
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AP, Dublin
Ireland’s prison service says guards armed with clubs and riot shields stormed a recreation area at Dublin’s main prison where 50 inmates had barricaded...
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AP, Huntsville
Two convicts whose escape from a work detail last year led to the death of a corrections officer pleaded not guilty Thursday to capital murder.Prosecutors will seek the...
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If you treat people badly you can’t expect them to come out of prison treating other people well. This is the idea behind the nearly constructed prison in Venezuela,...
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A man was sentenced to more than 4,000 years in prison Wednesday for sexually assaulting three teenage girls over two years.
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AP, Warren
Authorities say two hostages held by a knife-wielding prisoner inside the Maine State Prison have been released “with minimal or no injury.”Officials say...
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AP, Warren
A knife-wielding inmate took two people hostage on Monday at Maine’s state prison, state officials said.The standoff began in the afternoon. Negotiators sent to...
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Several signs in John Ziegler’s barber shop remind tourist and residents of his hours, historic Route 66, and that the city of Pontiac, Ill., is losing their prison, in Pontiac, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008.
