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By Carol Rosenberg, McClatchy Newspapers – MIAMI — A senior Pentagon official on Friday refused to delay a pre-arraignment phase in the prosecution of five Guantanamo captives accused of conspiring in the Sept.
By Michael Muskal, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The New York Police Department found itself under increasing pressure Friday over how it has investigated Muslims as part of its anti-terrorism probes,
By Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times – LAS VEGAS — Newt Gingrich unveiled a slashing new line of attack against Mitt Romney on Friday, arguing that his main rival for the GOP nomination
By Patrick J. McDonnell and Alexandra Sandels, Los Angeles Times – BEIRUT — Demonstrators took to the streets across Syria on Friday to pay homage to an earlier generation of revolutionaries — Islamic
By Robin Abcarian and Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times – SPARKS, Nev. — As he campaigned around the state the day before Nevadans cast their votes in the Republican presidential nominating contest, Mitt
By Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — Dismissing economic sanctions that are beginning to bite, Iran’s supreme leader said Friday that his country wouldn’t bow to Western demands that it stop
By Lisa Mascaro, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — One of the most sweeping ethics bills covering the personal financial activities of congressional and executive branch employees is now headed to the House
WASHINGTON—Nine men have been indicted in the Western District of Virginia for allegedly conspiring to receive, distribute, possess, and access with intent to view child pornography, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer
DES MOINES, IA—Robin T. Brooks, Jr., age 27, of Des Moines, was found guilty today by a jury in federal court of bank robbery, using a firearm in furtherance of a crime
INDIANAPOLIS — Speaking at a National Football League (NFL) news conference on Thursday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Director of Field Operations
By Christine Vestal, Stateline.org – WASHINGTON — The federal government this week announced a rule change it says will save the federal-state Medicaid program $17.7 billion over the next five years. Called for
By Tim Townsend, St. Louis Post-Dispatch – ST. LOUIS — For 18 years, the Rev. William Rowe has done a little improvising while celebrating Mass on Sunday mornings at St. Mary’s Catholic Church
By Steven Thomma, McClatchy Newspapers – LAS VEGAS — Republicans in Nevada are poised to do what no one has yet done in the 2012 Republican presidential campaign — sustain momentum. Their caucuses
By Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – MILWAUKEE — As federal researchers search for long-term solutions to the threat of an Asian carp invasion of the Great Lakes, the Obama administration on Thursday