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Arizona's limits on immigrant driver's licenses upheld
TUCSON — Young people granted immigration relief and work permits under a new Obama administration program still won't be able to obtain driver's licenses in Arizona, a federal judge has ruled. Although the decision is a win for Republican Gov....
Tags: Government, Migration, American Civil Liberties Union, Barack Obama, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013)
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In Mexico, immigrants' relatives watch U.S. debate, and hope
TONATICO, Mexico — Armando Guadarrama was navigating his taxi through the narrow streets of this central Mexico pueblo on a recent Saturday morning, some 2,000 miles from the Beltway. But like many here, Guadarrama was up-to-the-minute with the...
Tags: Mexico, Migration, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Barack Obama, U.S. Congress
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Private security patrols pull out of downtown Arts District
Private security patrols and cleanup crews have pulled out of the downtown Los Angeles' Arts District after a court ordered the city to dissolve a special district that had assessed property owners as much as $1.3 million a year to spruce up and protect...
Tags: Civic Center, Lifestyle and Leisure, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Lotteries
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Enron's Jeff Skilling doesn't deserve a break
As if you didn't know this already, we're coddling criminals in America. By that I don't mean the petty drug dealers, three-strikes necklace-snatchers and other mooks filling up our state prisons; many of them are doing hard time. I'm talking about...
Tags: Finance, Criminals, Securities, Punishment, Trials
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Attorney angrily defends handling of O.J. Simpson case
LAS VEGAS — Over a day of often-vitriolic cross examination, O.J. Simpson's former defense attorney faced a barrage of pointed challenges that his representation was so shoddy and even duplicitous that the fallen football star deserves a new trial...
Tags: Criminals, Punishment, O.J. Simpson, Trials, Crime, Law and Justice
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Judge temporarily delays 12-week abortion law in Arkansas
An Arkansas law that bans most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy was temporarily blocked by a federal judge on Friday. In a ruling from the bench, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Webber Wright in Little Rock granted a preliminary injunction...Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, Women's Health, Mike Beebe, Trials, Social Issues
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'The Roberts Court' captures an important transformation
At his confirmation hearings for the position of chief justice of the United States, John G. Roberts Jr. parried skeptics with a reassuring metaphor: "Judges are like umpires," he memorably testified. "Umpires don't make the rules, they apply them. The...
Tags: Healthcare Laws, Antonin Scalia, Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, Book
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Jorge Rafael Videla dies at 87; Argentine dictator
BUENOS AIRES — Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, who presided over that country's so-called dirty war in which up to 30,000 dissidents were murdered or disappeared, died Friday while serving a 50-year prison sentence. He was 87. He...
Tags: Government, Wars and Interventions, Punishment, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Rebellions
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Simpson's ex-lawyer Yale Galanter says O.J. knew about the guns
LAS VEGAS — The lawyer who unsuccessfully defended O.J. Simpson against armed robbery charges testified Friday his client knew two companions had guns in a 2007 confrontation with memorabilia dealers. Miami attorney Yale Galanter contradicted much...
Tags: Litigation, O.J. Simpson, Trials, Theft, Justice and Rights
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Trial postponed for teen accused of killing girlfriend's parents
A judge on Friday postponed opening statements in the murder trial of a teenager charged with killing his girlfriend's mother and stepfather, whose bodies were discovered buried in separate shallow graves. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Ricardo...Tags: Dwayne Johnson, AEG, Murder, Litigation, Trials
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LAPD reformed as federal oversight lifted, city leaders say
Los Angeles leaders say the Los Angeles Police Department has undergone a dramatic transformation since federal oversight of the agency was ordered 12 years ago. The dismissal Wednesday of the so-called consent decree, which arose largely out of the...
Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, AEG, Los Angeles Police Department, Antonio Villaraigosa, Crime, Law and Justice
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Defense official says U.S. has authority to target terrorists anywhere
WASHINGTON — A senior Pentagon official told a Senate committee Thursday that the U.S. would be at war with Al Qaeda for 15 to 20 more years and said the military could target terrorists anywhere under a law passed after the Sept. 11 terrorist...
Tags: Angus King, Pakistan, Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, George W. Bush
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