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Michelle Obama, Sasha visit Md. State House
September 8, 2010 A visit to Maryland's State House billed as a sort of First Family summer school for 9-year-old Sasha Obama and her cousins briefly halted work inside the state capital and produced a spectacle in Annapolis on Tuesday as police pushed crowds further from the capital. A spokesman for Gov. Martin...
A deep bench of substitute justices goes unused
September 8, 2010Justice John Paul Stevens has been retired from the Supreme Court for more than a month. Maybe it's time to bring him back.
Elena Kagan sworn in as 112th U.S. Supreme Court justice
September 8, 2010Vowing to "administer justice without respect to persons and do equal right to the poor and to the rich," Elena Kagan was sworn in by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. as the 112th justice to the Supreme Court on Saturday.
Oxford, from A to Yoknapatawpha
September 8, 2010Some people think of the Deep South town of Oxford as just a college town. True, it's home to the University of Mississippi. It may even have been named after that other college town across the Atlantic.
Chicago Mayor Daley says he's served his last term
September 8, 2010CHICAGO -- Mayor Richard M. Daley, who wielded more control over Chicago than anyone but his father decades before, said Tuesday he will not seek re-election, bringing a surprising end to a dynasty whose name became synonymous with the city's legendary political machine.
San Francisco reconsidering gun ban in transit ads
September 8, 2010SAN FRANCISCO -- The image of a woman brandishing a gun is gracing more than a dozen San Francisco bus stop shelters after the city suspended a policy banning firearms in advertisements on public transportation.
Today in History
September 8, 2010 -- Today is Tuesday, Sept. 7, the 250th day of 2010. There are 115 days left in the year.
Appeals court panel denies stay for Wash. inmate
September 8, 2010YAKIMA, Wash. -- A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has denied a Washington state death row inmate's request for an emergency stay of his execution.
NY cigarette tax plans raise reservation tensions
September 8, 2010CATTARAUGUS INDIAN RESERVATION, N.Y. -- As New York Indian Nation leaders battle in courtrooms to preserve their tax-free cigarette market, tensions are rising on reservations, where the state's renewed efforts to tax sales to non-Native customers is viewed as yet another attack on Native American...
Convicted killer Alfredo Prieto returning to Fairfax County court for resentencing
September 8, 2010Alfredo R. Prieto, convicted of three murders and two rapes, will return to a Fairfax County courtroom for a sentencing trial Tuesday morning, when Fairfax prosecutors will try for a third time to obtain the death penalty.
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