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News Obama Will Leave Deeper Mark on Top Court
President Barack Obama’s election victory on Tuesday may give him the opportunity to deepen his liberal imprint on the U.S. Supreme Court. A Harvard law graduate who taught constitutional law, Obama, a Democrat, named two liberals to the high court during his first four-year term. With his re-election, the retirement of one or more justices…
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Fast Forward Gabrielle Giffords Stares Down Shooter in Court
Former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords stood in federal court to face her would-be assassin on Thursday moments before he was sentenced to life in prison for killing six people and wounding 13 others, including Giffords, last year. Jared Loughner, 24, a college dropout with a history of psychiatric disorders, received seven consecutive life terms plus…
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Fast Forward Window for Iran Deal Opens After Obama Win
The reelection of President Barack Obama could create an opportunity for new negotiations with Iran on its nuclear programme as sanctions pile economic pressure on its theocratic leaders. With no more elections to fight, Obama, who has so far resisted calls in the United States and Israel for military action against Iran, appears free to…
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Fast Forward Israeli Teams Aid Ghana Mall Collapse Effort
More people than initially thought remain trapped beneath a collapsed four-storey department store in a suburb of Ghana’s capital Accra that killed at least seven people the previous day — and Israeli rescue teams were dispatched to help with the rescue, officials said on Thursday. The authorities had initially estimated that around 55 people were…
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News Nate Silver Proves ‘Em Wrong by Getting Vote Right
So much for gut feeling. After correctly predicting the results in 49 of the 50 states that have been called in the U.S. election (Florida remains too close to call), Nate Silver, the statistician behind the popular FiveThirtyEight blog, woke on Wednesday to find himself the poster child of what is sure to be a…
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News Graham Spanier Arraigned in Penn State Sex Case
Former Penn State University President Graham Spanier was freed on bail on Wednesday after his arraignment on charges he covered up the Jerry Sandusky child sex scandal in what prosecutors called a “conspiracy of silence.” Spanier’s lawyer, Elizabeth Ainslie, told reporters that her client pleaded not guilty to the charges but later said in an…
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Fast Forward Onetime Etan Patz Suspect Quickly Rearrested
Jose Ramos, for long a suspect in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz from a New York City street, was freed from prison on Wednesday after serving 20 years for molesting children but immediately was rearrested pending other charges. Police said Ramos, 69, took a few steps from the prison gate at the State…
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Fast Forward ’10 Commandments’ Judge Back in Alabama
A former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court who was removed from office nine years ago for refusing to take down a Ten Commandments monument has won back his job. Republican Roy Moore defeated Democrat Bob Vance, a circuit judge, in Tuesday’s election for the Supreme Court seat. Moore won 52 percent of the…
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