Confirming what some had previously feared, federal agencies say they can confiscate travelers’ laptops at U.S. borders for virtually any reason, and read and share with others the contents of…
Complaining that they are being besieged by the tabloid photographers, celebrities met with Los Angeles officials yesterday to seek protection from further harassment.
A 1928 aerial photo taken of Mission Canyon, Calif., 10 minutes from downtown Santa Barbara, shows four houses and two roads leading in and out of the scenic spot. Decades…
Setting the stage for Massachusetts to become the second state in the country to allow out-of-state couples of the same gender to marry, the state’s house of representatives voted today…
It wasn’t just political affiliation that some top officials at the Department of Justice may have considered when making decisions about hiring and firing.
Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska has been indicted on seven counts of lying on Senate financial disclosure forms, the U.S. Justice Department announced in a press conference this afternoon.
Seeking to save pedestrians from themselves, Illinois lawmakers have been considering a new law that would ban them from walking and text-messaging or, apparently, otherwise using a cell phone while…
Housing legislation expected to be passed by the Senate next week and then signed by President George W. Bush is billed as an effort to rescue individuals struggling to pay…
With a stroke of the pen today, California’s health-conscious Republican governor, movie actor and bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger, terminated restaurants’ use of trans fats.
Legislators in Pennsylvania are scurrying to close a loophole in state law that recently allowed a cell phone provider to give prosecutors’ personal records to a defense lawyer in a…
Critics have sued the director of Georgia’s public defender system for closing an office that handles conflicts cases in the Atlanta area and hiring contract lawyers to do the work.
Visa applications are now being processed under an expanded program to help Iraqis who are in danger because they were employed by the U.S. government.
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