Labor Lawyer Charged With Beating Female Coworker Found Dead In Jail
A senior Labor Department lawyer charged with sexually assaulting a longtime coworker he had a "crush" on was found dead in jail with his throat slashed, the Washington Postand other sources reported....
View Article2 NY Men Accused Of Trying To Create X-Ray Weapon To Secretly Sicken...
ALBANY, New York (AP) — Federal authorities on Wednesday accused two upstate New York men of assembling a portable X-ray weapon that they intended to use to secretly sicken opponents of...
View ArticleFormer Investigators Say Deadly TWA Flight 800 Could Have Been Struck By A...
On the evening of July 17, 1996, Trans World Airlines Flight 800 exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after takeoff from New York's JFK Airport. All 230 people onboard were killed.After...
View ArticleVillanova University On Lockdown As Police Search For Armed Robbery Suspect
Villanova University in Pennsylvania is on lockdown as police search for the last in a group of armed suspects who held up a bank on Wednesday.ABC 6 in Philadelphia reports that the suspected robbers...
View Article7 Depressing Charts About America
As if the recent string of high-profile scandals over Benghazi, AP phone records and the IRS weren't enough to land the Obama administration in political hot water, the controversial news of the...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Could Issue A Chaotic Surprise Ruling On The Defense Of...
A lot of gay rights activists have predicted the Supreme Court will overturn Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, which deprives gay couples of federal benefits associated with marriage.But the...
View ArticleA Syrian Man's Chilling Account Of Being Held In A State Prison
“Prison is for real men” is an old saying we have in Syria, and one that I kept repeating to myself as I paced anxiously back and forth across my small, dingy cell in an almost hypnotic trance of...
View ArticleWest Virginia Senator Blasts The NRA In An Ad Premiered On 'Morning Joe'
U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), a lifetime NRA member, fired back at the association on Thursday in an ad debuted on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."The ad served as a response to the NRA's attack ad on Manchin...
View ArticleSenators Are Closing In On A Major Breakthrough In Immigration Legislation...
A pair of Republican senators has spearheaded an amendment that could lead to a major breakthrough in Senate support for the immigration reform bill, leading to hopes that it could provide a whopping...
View ArticleBritish Lawmakers Say Ad Mogul Charles Saatchi Was Let Off Too Easily For...
LONDON (AP) — A British lawmaker questioned Thursday whether police may have treated Nigella Lawson's husband too leniently after he admitted assaulting the celebrity chef in a restaurant.Opposition...
View ArticleEdward Snowden's Flight To Hong Kong Is Looking Smarter And Smarter
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has several potential ways to avoid trial in America if and when the U.S. government files criminal charges against him, extradition experts and law enforcement...
View ArticleChief Justice John Roberts Takes A Stand For AIDS Groups' Right To Free Speech
The Supreme Court has struck down a government policy forcing HIV/AIDS groups to have policies opposing sex trafficking and prostitution to get federal money to combat those diseases overseas.Chief...
View ArticleMarco Rubio Has Managed To Alienate Just About Everyone In The Immigration...
Somewhere along the line in what has become a heated debate over how to reform the nation's immigration laws, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) lost his base.That much became clear during a marathon "press...
View ArticleJob Prospects For Entry-Level Lawyers Are Looking Terrible
Annual employment statistics for the legal industry came out today, and at first glance, jobs prospects for graduates look grim.Just 85% of the of the class of 2012 had a job of some kind...
View ArticleHow The Supreme Court's Decision On American Express And Class Actions Could...
While the marquee decisions expected from the Supreme Court still haven't dropped — like the two gay marriage cases — each of the Court's rulings is of course significant.Today's opinion in American...
View ArticleREVEALED: The Top Secret Rule That Lets The NSA Use US Data Without A Warrant
Top secret documents submitted to the court that oversees surveillance by US intelligence agencies show the judges have signed off on broad orders which allow the NSA to make use of information...
View ArticleThe Craziest Quotes From The Paula Deen Deposition
Some incriminating quotes from Food Network star Paula Deen's lawsuit deposition came out yesterday.They were just the tip of the iceberg.Deen is currently being sued by the former general manager of...
View ArticleHow To Know If Your Summer Internship Is Illegal
This week, a federal judge ruled that Fox Searchlight violated minimum wage laws for not paying two production interns. So what are those laws? Are unpaid internships ever OK?Here are some answers to...
View ArticleLAWYERS: Casey Anthony Might 'Disappear' If She's Tried For Defamation
Casey Anthony filed for personal bankruptcy recently after being sued for defamation.In court documents this month, Anthony's lawyers argued against the two defamation suits moving forward in state...
View ArticleApple Warns Of 'Chilling Effect' As Antitrust Trial Ends
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc, on trial for allegedly colluding to raise the price of e-books, said on Thursday an adverse ruling would have a "chilling effect" on how businesses investigate new...
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