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    Jun 14, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Commander in Nazi SS-led unit lied to enter U.S.

    A top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit accused of burning villages filled with women and children lied to American immigration officials to get into the United States and has been living in Minnesota since shortly after World War II, according to evidence uncovered by the Associated Press.
    Associated Press
    A top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit accused of burning villages filled with women and children lied to American immigration officials to get into the United States and has been living in Minnesota since shortly after World War II, according to...

    Tags: Nazi Party, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Crime, Law and Justice, Criminals, U.S. Department of Justice

    2. Jun 3, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Minors detained at adult immigration facilities, report says

    WASHINGTON — More than 1,300 minors — including several dozen 14 or younger — were held for days in immigration detention facilities for adults over a four-year period when the Obama administration ramped up deportations, according to a new report by an advocacy group.
    WASHINGTON — More than 1,300 minors — including several dozen 14 or younger — were held for days in immigration detention facilities for adults over a four-year period when the Obama administration ramped up deportations, according to...

    Tags: Justice and Rights, American Civil Liberties Union, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Migration, Politics

    3. May 24, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. No moms in macro trading? Paul Tudor Jones backpedals on comments

    Anne-Marie Slaughter. Marissa Mayer. Sheryl Sandberg. Paul Tudor Jones?
    Anne-Marie Slaughter. Marissa Mayer. Sheryl Sandberg. Paul Tudor Jones? The founder of Tudor Investment Corp. seems, almost by accident, to be the newest voice in the debate about women at work. The hedge fund honcho, ranked 123rd on Forbes’...

    Tags: Saudi Arabia, LEGO Group, Marissa Mayer, Walmart, The Washington Post

    4. Apr 23, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. George W. Bush Presidential Library opens this week, chads and all

    President Obama and all four living ex-presidents will attend the official dedication of the <a href="http://www.georgewbushlibrary.smu.edu/">George W. Bush Presidential Library</a> on Thursday on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas.&nbsp;
    President Obama and all four living ex-presidents will attend the official dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library on Thursday on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas.  According to the website, the library's mission...

    Tags: Gun Control, George W. Bush, Libraries, White House, Interior Policy

    5. Mar 25, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. FBI puts UFOs on Ten Most Wanted list. Not so much.

    A screaming comes across the sky. Is it Superman? <a href="http://www.thomaspynchon.com/mason-dixon/extra/compare.html" target="_blank">Thomas Pynchon</a>? Or just a meteor en route to <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50141258n" target="_blank">Chelyabinsk, </a>Russia, that somehow made a wrong turn and got lost over New Jersey?
    A screaming comes across the sky. Is it Superman? Thomas Pynchon? Or just a meteor en route to Chelyabinsk, Russia, that somehow made a wrong turn and got lost over New Jersey? Well, if you really want to know, here’s a tip: Don’t ask the...

    Tags: Police Investigations, Stranger Than Fiction, Russia, Crime, Law and Justice, Unexplained Phenomena

    6. Mar 6, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Aaron Swartz is gone, but his story refuses to go away. Why?

    By now, Web users should know about Aaron Swartz, because it's getting hard not to hear about him.
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    By now, Web users should know about Aaron Swartz, because it's getting hard not to hear about him. The 26-year-old computer prodigy helped develop RSS and Reddit; he was also a folk hero to the open Web movement, which argues for greater information...

    Tags: Police Investigations, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, John Cornyn, Crime, Law and Justice, Prisons

    7. Feb 8, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. In FBI records, clues about a photographer's work as an informant

    Ernest Withers watched the trajectory of the civil rights movement from behind his camera lens.
    Ernest Withers watched the trajectory of the civil rights movement from behind his camera lens. He was in Mississippi in 1955 when an all-white jury acquitted two white men accused of brutally murdering Emmett Till, a visiting black Chicago teenager,...

    Tags: Police Investigations, Arts, Judges, Emmett Till, Martin Luther King Jr.

    8. Jan 4, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Justifying assassination

    A federal judge in New York ruled this week that the Obama administration may withhold from the public a document providing the legal rationale for the targeted killing in Yemen of Anwar Awlaki, an Al Qaeda operative who was also a U.S. citizen. But even as she did so, U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon eloquently expressed her concerns about the existence of a secretive government program that not only assassinates those deemed to be enemies of the United States, but does so without judicial oversight.
    A federal judge in New York ruled this week that the Obama administration may withhold from the public a document providing the legal rationale for the targeted killing in Yemen of Anwar Awlaki, an Al Qaeda operative who was also a U.S. citizen. But...

    Tags: National Government, Yemen, Judges, Pakistan, Government

    9. Jan 18, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Aaron Swartz suicide has U.S. lawmakers scrutinizing prosecutors

    Congressional criticism is mounting against U.S. prosecutors for pursuing prison time for a popular hacker in a case that's morphed into a posthumous cause celebre.
    Congressional criticism is mounting against U.S. prosecutors for pursuing prison time for a popular hacker in a case that's morphed into a posthumous cause celebre. Aaron Swartz, 26, a cofounder of Reddit and an open-Internet advocate, committed suicide...

    Tags: Suicide, The Huffington Post, John Cornyn, Darrell E Issa, Prisons

    10. Dec 22, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Rep. Schiff to seek inquiry into Station fire response

    A local House member says he will ask Congress to launch an inquiry next month into the U.S. Forest Service's response to the Station fire, including a decision to withhold water-dropping aircraft during the critical second day of the blaze.
    Los Angeles Times
    A local House member says he will ask Congress to launch an inquiry next month into the U.S. Forest Service's response to the Station fire, including a decision to withhold water-dropping aircraft during the critical second day of the blaze. Rep. Adam B....

    Tags: U.S. House Committee on Appropriations, Adam B. Schiff, Fires, Dianne Feinstein, Michael Antonovich

    11. Jul 5, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. Aerial expert's report on L.A. County's biggest wildfire flies in the face of official review

    Just after first light, a tactical observation plane took off from its old military base in Hemet for an urgent mission above the cathedral peaks of the Angeles National Forest.
    Los Angeles Times
    Just after first light, a tactical observation plane took off from its old military base in Hemet for an urgent mission above the cathedral peaks of the Angeles National Forest. The two-man crew had been deployed to direct an air assault on the few acres...

    Tags: Conservation, Forests, Environmental Issues, Transportation Accidents, Forestry and Timber

    12. Aug 4, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. Federal inspector general launches probe of Station fire

    A federal inspector general has launched an investigation and the Obama administration has invited Congress to order a broad inquiry into last summer's disastrous Station fire after learning that dispatch recordings had been withheld from a U.S. Forest Service review team.
    Los Angeles Times
    A federal inspector general has launched an investigation and the Obama administration has invited Congress to order a broad inquiry into last summer's disastrous Station fire after learning that dispatch recordings had been withheld from a U.S. Forest...

    Tags: Radio, Agriculture, Services and Shopping, Politics, Entertainment

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