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Justice Ginsburg Says The Death Penalty Should Be Abolished
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was speaking about her love of opera music with New York’s WQXR radio program earlier this week when, somehow, the death penalty came up.According to Think...
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LA High-Speed Car Chase Ends In A Huge Ball Of Flames
Via KTLA, @nycsouthpaw, and @lock, a high-speed chase in LA ended in a massive ball of flames last night.Thankfully the driver was rescued.Please follow Getting There on Twitter and Facebook.Join the...
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Rep. Issa Slams Prosecutors For How They Handled The Aaron Swartz Case
U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa is blasting prosecutors for what he says was an overzealous prosecution of famed Internet activist Aaron Swartz.After Swartz killed himself in his New York apartment, his family...
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Former FBI Agent Says Alabama Standoff Was A 'Classic, Textbook Situation'
Bomb technicians have found no more explosive devices after an arduous search of the rural Alabama property of Jimmy Lee Dykes, the gunman who shot dead a school bus driver and held a boy captive for...
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Manhattan Attorney Allegedly Threw Himself A Lavish Going-Away Party Before...
A Manhattan attorney reportedly hosted a lavish going-away party under the pretense he was going on a years-long European vacation when he was really going to prison, according to the New York Post.The...
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NRA's Efforts To Stop Anti-Gun Lobbying In Kansas Could Also Crush...
The American Cancer Society says that a bill being pushed by the National Rifle Association (NRA) in Kansas to ban lobbying against guns would also restrict anti-smoking and anti-drinking...
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Obama's Nominee For CIA Director Is Going To Get Grilled From Both Sides
The release Monday of a secret Justice Department memo outlining the legal case for drone strikes against American citizens is likely to raise some big questions at today's confirmation hearing for...
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A Photographic Tour Of Russian Corruption
Russia's corruption is the stuff of legend, and, despite the country leaving the "Wild East"-tag of the 1990s behind, still endemic.Just last year Transparency International ranked it 33rd-most corrupt...
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Lawyer Sums Up The Enormous Stakes Of The NDAA Indefinite Detention Lawsuit
Hedges v. Obama, the lawsuit challenging the indefinite detention provision of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), continued Wednesday at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second...
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Florida Supreme Court Could Decide Whether A Judge Can Be Facebook Friends...
Florida's top lawyer is asking the state's highest court to decide whether judges may be Facebook friends with prosecutors who argue in their courts.Florida Attorney General Pamela Bondi asked the...
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A Hip-Hop Promoter That Rubbed Elbows With P. Diddy Was Just Convicted Of...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Commodities trader and hip-hop promoter Tyrone Gilliams was arrested Wednesday on charges of running a $4 million investment scam, according to a criminal complaint filed by...
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Chihuahua's Body Exhumed So Its Alleged Killer Can Be Punished
Illinois police took unusual steps to bring a Chihuahua's alleged killer to justice, the Peoria Journal Star reports.A Peoria prosecutor got a search warrant to exhume the body of a tiny dog called...
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There's A Shockingly Realistic New Combat Simulator For Kids In NYC
A shockingly realistic "live action" shooting game that caters to children has opened in Queens.The game, called iCombat, "outfits children like SWAT officers— with fake assault rifles and other toy...
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UBS Wins End To 'Travesty' Of Lawsuit Over Tax Evasion
(Reuters) - Calling them "tax cheats" and their lawsuit a "travesty," a U.S. appeals court threw out an effort by some American customers of UBS AG to recover damages over bank services that resulted...
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REPORT: The Justice Department May Sue Moody's For Fraud Too
Reuters is reporting that the U.S. Department of Justice is considering bringing a lawsuit against Moody's for fraud.This comes hot on the heels of a DoJ lawsuit filed Monday against another credit...
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Big Bear Turns Into 'Ghost Town' As Manhunt Drags On For Ex-Cop Allegedly...
The winter resort Big Bear 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles turned into a virtual "ghost town" Thursday as police hunted for an ex-cop who allegedly vowed to take down the LAPD, The LA Times reported...
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Anderson Cooper Got A Bullet-Hole Riddled Memento From An Allegedly Homicidal...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Law enforcement officials are inspecting a package CNN's Anderson Cooper received from a former Los Angeles police officer who allegedly killed three in a shooting spree.CNN...
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Hacker Accesses Bush Family Emails And Photos
Bush family emails apparently hacked, private photos leaked; criminal investigation launchedAn investigation has been launched into how a hacker managed to access the email accounts of the former US...
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China Finally Has A Reason To Reform Its Copycat Economy
The Chinese are voracious copycats. It's not a new observation. In the late 17th century a Spanish missionary called Domingo Navarrete noted the tendency in his memoirs."The Chinese are very ingenious...
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This Is The Best Law School In America To Snag A Date
If you're going to pay up to $150,000 to go to law school, you might as well have some fun along the way.Graduateprograms.com has ranked law schools across the United States on the quality of social...
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