Recent Updates
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Bush Pushes Congress on 'No Child' Law
Legal News Feed 10/10/2007[##_1L|1085345589.jpg|width="110" height="128" alt=""|_##]President Bush said that he's open to new ideas for changing the "No Child Left Behind" education law but will not accept watered-down standards or rollbacks in accountability. The president a...
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Atlantic City Mayor Robert Levy Resigns
Legal News Feed 10/10/2007[##_1L|1325225912.jpg|width="80" height="59" alt=""|_##]The mayor of Atlantic City has handed in his resignation, after he vanished for two weeks amid allegations that he lied about his military service, his attorney said Wednesday. Levy's departure ...
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Bush faces GOP foes on budget cuts
Legal News Feed 10/09/2007[##_1L|1137419019.gif|width="135" height="114" alt=""|_##]Congressional Democrats have found an unexpected ally in their budget showdown with President Bush: Republicans. The president is pushing to cut and even eliminate some popular domestic progra...
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Democrats demand interrogation memos
Legal News Feed 10/05/2007[##_1L|1284010540.jpg|width="140" height="135" alt=""|_##]Senate and House Democrats demanded Thursday to see two secret Justice Department memos that reportedly authorize painful interrogation tactics against terrorism suspects. The memos -- legal o...
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Craig to Stay in Office for Time Being
Legal News Feed 09/27/2007[##_1L|1137693142.jpg|width="130" height="93" alt=""|_##]Craig's lawyers asked a Minnesota judge Wednesday to let the three-term senator withdraw his guilty plea in a sex sting at a Minneapolis airport restroom. Afterward, Craig issued a statement sa...
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Is Vermont lawyer being wiretapped?
Legal News Feed 09/23/2007A Vermont lawyer representing a client being held at Guantanamo, Cuba, is worried that his phone is being tapped by the federal government. He ought to be. The federal government may have interpreted the revised federal surveillance law to allow it t...
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Senators Urge More Stringent Rules for Toy Safety
Legal News Feed 09/13/2007[##_1L|1035764337.jpg|width="140" height="135" alt=""|_##]Mattel's chief executive apologized to Congress on Wednesday for failing to stop toys coated in lead paint from reaching consumers and vowed to take immediate steps to prevent it from happenin...
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Immigration Divides Romney and Giuliani
Legal News Feed 08/15/2007[##_1L|1205330119.jpg|width="180" height="135" alt=""|_##]Mitt Romney accuses former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani of making his city a haven for illegal immigrants. Giuliani denies it, insisting he cracked down on lawlessness of every kind. It's the ...
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Candidates stop short on same-sex marriage
Legal News Feed 08/10/2007[##_1L|1023953721.jpg|width="137" height="110" alt=""|_##]Melissa Etheridge confronted Hillary Rodham Clinton about her husband's gay rights record, accusing Bill Clinton of throwing gay and lesbian supporters "under the bus" by pushing for the "Don'...
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Bush signs intelligence surveillance bill
Legal News Feed 08/05/2007President Bush on Sunday signed into law an expansion of the government's power to eavesdrop on foreign terror suspects without the need for warrants. The law, approved by the Senate and the House just before Congress adjourned for its summer break, ...
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US Senate panel backs FDA tobacco regulation bill
Legal News Feed 08/02/2007A Senate committee Wednesday embraced legislation that would for the first time allow federal regulation of cigarettes.The bill, approved 13-8 by the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, would require the Food and Drug Administration to r...
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GOP senator wants probe; Spitzer says no
Legal News Feed 07/31/2007Gov. Eliot Spitzer said there is no need for a deeper investigation into his aides' roles in a scheme to discredit a lead political rival, something the head of the Senate Investigations Committee called for Monday. "Given that the attorney general a...