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U.S. executions are all but sure to resume soon after a nationwide halt, cleared Wednesday by a splintered Supreme Court that approved the most widely used method of lethal injection.
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An ailing 81-year-old North Carolina man who escaped from a Maryland prison 43 years ago was taken into custody Friday to face extradition, a move his attorneys decried...
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An out-of-control van jumped a curb and barreled into bystanders near the entrance to a crowded subway station Friday, killing the driver and hurting seven people,...
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A carnival ride spinning with people collapsed at a county fair Friday night, injuring all 24 people aboard.
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I am making a big assumption here – that President George Bush is capable of feeling any sense of embarrassment.
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A bitter 80-day United Auto Workers strike against an auto parts maker that has crippled dozens of General Motors Corp. factories could be coming to an end soon with a...
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The Ohio Lottery says a winning Mega Millions ticket has been sold in Ohio.
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Hours before the California Supreme Court issued its decision on gay marriage, Mayor Gavin Newsom heard rumblings that the justices would uphold the state’s ban.
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A carnival ride spinning with people collapsed at a county fair Friday night, injuring at least 17, including three seriously, an emergency official said.
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Missouri lawmakers gave final approval Friday to a bill that adds new restrictions and requirements for illegal immigrants, the cities in which they live and the...
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Police found three decomposing bodies with multiple stab wounds inside a northern New Jersey home Friday night, a prosecutor said.
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Emergency officials say a carnival ride has collapsed at a fairgrounds, injuring three people severely.
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The federal government isn’t used to being snubbed when it offers to help local governments.
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A minister from a Dallas-area Baptist megachurch was caught in an Internet sex sting and charged with online solicitation of a minor, police said Friday.
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An Illinois appellate court ruled Friday that the city of Chicago cannot be held liable for a 2003 nightclub stampede that killed 21 people and injured dozens more.
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The Supreme Court tossed itself off a big case Monday.
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The Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from a Chinese man who sought asylum in the United States because his wife was forced to have an abortion under...
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The Supreme Court on Monday granted a temporary reprieve to a death row inmate in Virginia to consider whether lower courts correctly weighed his claim that his lawyer...
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The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a federal magistrate may preside over jury selection in criminal cases, as long as the attorney for a defendant explicitly permits...
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The Supreme Court says it can’t intervene in an important dispute over the rights of apartheid victims to sue U.S. corporations in U.S. courts because four of the...
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The Supreme Court is meeting to issue opinions and announce whether it has accepted any new cases.
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Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens says the euthanized Kentucky Derby horse Eight Belles probably died more humanely than death row prisoners do.
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The Supreme Court has refused to block the execution of a prisoner in Georgia, clearing the last obstacle to the resumption of capital punishment in the U.S. after a...
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States can require voters to produce photo identification, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, upholding a Republican-inspired law that Democrats say will keep some poor,...
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Excerpts from Monday’s 6-3 Supreme Court decision upholding Indiana’s law requiring voters to present a picture ID before they vote:
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The Supreme Court has ruled that states can require voters to produce photo identification without violating their constitutional rights. The decision validates...
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Justice Antonin Scalia on Sunday characterized himself as a social conservative and “a law-and-order guy” whose views do not impact his interpretation of...
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A justice was missing, again, when the Supreme Court heard its final argument of the term Wednesday, raising the prospect that the remaining eight justices could split...
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The Supreme Court affirmed Wednesday that police have the power to conduct searches and seize evidence, even when done during an arrest that turns out to have violated...
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The Supreme Court has ruled that police can conduct searches and seizures of evidence after arrests that sometimes violate state law.
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The Supreme Court is ready to hand down opinions and hear arguments for the last time during the current term.
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When Wanda Glenn first sought disability benefits from MetLife Inc. in 2000, she “never in a million years” expected it would end up as a Supreme Court...
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Several members of the Supreme Court expressed doubts Tuesday about using a dead woman’s prior statements against her former boyfriend at his murder trial.
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The Supreme Court’s conservative justices appeared divided Tuesday over a campaign finance law allowing candidates to receives larger contributions when their...
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Prosecutors moved quickly Monday to set new execution dates for three death-row inmates, hours after the Supreme Court lifted a reprieve it granted last fall so it...
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Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, left, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, right, share a laugh with Alzheimer’s Association member Adele Rugg from Hawaii, Wednesday, May 14, 2008, on Capitol Hill in Washington, prior to the start...
