RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who built a career along the fault lines of racial politics and battled liberals, Communists and the occasional fellow Republican during 30 conservative years in Congress, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86....
PARIS (AP) -- "I cry with joy," Ingrid Betancourt said. And she did. After six years as a hostage in the Colombian jungle, the former Colombian presidential candidate and French citizen flew back to her beloved France to be embraced Friday as an icon by the country that raised her....
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) -- President Bush invoked the memory of Thomas Jefferson Friday in welcoming new U.S. citizens at a naturalization ceremony at Monticello, saying "I'll be proud to call you a fellow American."...
A court has ordered Google to turn over a database that links users to every video they've watched on the popular Web site YouTube. Jennifer Urban, director of the University of Southern California Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic, says the ruling has big implications for online privacy.
The guys in this week's shop — Jimi Izrael, Ruben Navarrette and Nick Charles — are joined by conservative radio talk show host Armstrong Williams. They discuss Gen. Wesley Clark's jab at GOP presidential candidate John McCain's military service record, and the latest contention surrounding the death of an inmate accused of killing a Maryland police officer.
Michael Maslanka warns corporate employers they can say goodbye to the secret ballot when workers vote on unionizing if the Employee Free Choice Act is entacted by a slightly more Democratic Congress and signed by a President Obama.
Senior reporter John Council talks with criminal defense lawyer Gary Udashen about: a battle over exhibits in the Holy Land Foundation trial, when double jeopardy attaches in a prosecution, Darlie Routier's DNA test, and a proposal to limit attorney-client privilege in some cases.
When the Texas Supreme Court ruled in Fairfield, it seemed that the court was signaling that punitive damages assessed against a corporation would not be against public policy. But the 5th Circuit recently came to a different conclusion in a similar case.
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