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• Judge to retire after sending racist Obama email

  April 3, 2013 in Nation/World, Region HELENA — Montana’s chief federal judge will retire following an investigation into an email he forwarded that included a racist joke involving President Barack Obama. U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull … 40

• Ex-Sen. Craig loses bid to dismiss FEC lawsuit

  March 28, 2013 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge refused on Thursday to dismiss a Federal Election Commission lawsuit that accuses former Sen. Larry Craig of misusing $217,000 in campaign funds for his … 24

• Records provide new look at Ariz. shooting spree

  March 27, 2013 in Nation/World PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities investigating the shooting rampage that killed six people and wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 11 others compiled nearly 3,000 pages of documents released Wednesday that provide …

• Italian court orders new trial for Amanda Knox

  March 26, 2013 in Nation/World ROME (AP) — Italy’s highest criminal court on Tuesday overturned Amanda Knox’s acquittal in the slaying of her British roommate and ordered a new trial, prolonging a case that has …

• Knox must wait 1 more day for high court decision

  March 25, 2013 in Nation/World ROME (AP) — Italy’s highest court says it will issue a decision Tuesday morning on whether to overturn American student Amanda Knox’s acquittal in the murder of her roommate. The … 1

• Bork nomination fight altered judicial selection

  December 19, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservatives wanted Robert H. Bork on the Supreme Court. They wound up with Anthony Kennedy, the key vote in reaffirming a woman’s right to an abortion. The …

• Hearing on voting rights turns partisan

  December 19, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats and Republicans sparred Wednesday over whether voter ID laws, attempts to purge voter rolls and restricted early voting were legitimate efforts to stop fraud or …

• Court lets slaves’ descendants sue Cherokee chief

  December 14, 2012 in Nation/World OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Descendants of slaves owned by members of the Cherokee Nation can sue the current chief in an attempt to restore their tribal memberships, a federal appeals …

• Senate takes step toward banning stalking software

  December 13, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — A loophole that permits software companies to sell cyberstalking apps that operate secretly on cellphones could soon be closed by Congress. The software is popular among jealous …

• Man shoots himself inside Ala. federal courthouse

  December 13, 2012 in Nation/World BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A worker who killed himself inside an Alabama federal courthouse Thursday went through an employee entrance to avoid a security check that could have caught the …

• Obama to match FDR’s record of 4 swearing-ins

  December 12, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is poised to match Franklin Roosevelt’s record of being sworn in as the nation’s leader four times. While FDR served four terms, Obama is … 1

• APNewsBreak: Sotomayor book offers personal look

  December 10, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says in her upcoming memoir that her lifelong battle against diabetes and the fear that she might die early played a big …

• Doctor gets 20 years in Miss. cancer center fraud

  December 7, 2012 in Nation/World JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday sentenced a doctor to 20 years in prison and ordered her to repay nearly $8.2 million for fraud at a former …

• Drug makers’ settlements get high court review

  December 7, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will take a close look at payments from brand-name drug makers to manufacturers of generic equivalents to keep the no-name products off the market …

• Court hears challenge to Obama recess appointments

  December 5, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans and business groups told a federal appeals court Wednesday that President Barack Obama violated the Constitution earlier this year when he bypassed the Senate to fill …

• Justices struggle with international custody law

  December 5, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is struggling to figure out if American courts have any further say in a custody dispute between a U.S. soldier and a Scottish woman …

• New judge appointed in Fort Hood shooting case

  December 4, 2012 in Nation/World FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — The Army’s highest legal branch appointed a new judge to preside over the case of the Fort Hood shooting suspect, indicating the court-martial is on …

• Calif. gay therapy ban sparks competing rulings

  December 4, 2012 in Nation/World SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Two federal judges in California have arrived at opposite conclusions on whether the state’s first-of-its-kind law prohibiting licensed psychotherapists from trying to change the sexual orientations …

• Judge temporarily blocks Calif. gay therapy law

  December 3, 2012 in Nation/World SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked California from enforcing a first-of-its-kind law that bars licensed psychotherapists from working to change the sexual orientations of gay …

• Judge removed in Fort Hood shooting rampage case

  December 3, 2012 in Nation/World FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The military’s highest court ousted the judge in the Fort Hood shooting case Monday and threw out his order to have the suspect’s beard forcibly … 1

• US government releases once-secret Watergate files

  November 30, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — Watergate Judge John J. Sirica aided the prosecution in pursuing the White House connection to the Democratic headquarters break-in by providing the special prosecutor information from a …

• Court: Can generic makers be sued for drug flaws?

  November 30, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will decide whether generic drug manufacturers can be held responsible in state courts for possible design defects that are in the brand-name medicine they …

• Attorneys for Strauss-Kahn deny settlement reached

  November 30, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Attorneys for Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Friday denied that the former International Monetary Fund chief has reached a settlement with a New York City hotel maid who …

• Ban on gay change therapy faces first legal test

  November 30, 2012 in Nation/World SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A first-of-its-kind California law prohibiting licensed psychotherapists from counseling gay minors on how to become heterosexual faced its first legal test Friday as lawyers for those …

• LA judge dismisses suit over park Nativity scenes

  November 29, 2012 in Nation/World LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles federal judge on Thursday dismissed a Christian group’s lawsuit to force suburban Santa Monica to reopen spaces in a city park to private …

• AP source: Strauss-Kahn, NY hotel maid to settle

  November 29, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and a hotel maid who accused him of trying to rape her have reached an agreement to settle her …

• Texas inmate waits more than 30 years for retrial

  November 29, 2012 in Nation/World HOUSTON (AP) — A Kansas man who remains in a Texas prison more than 30 years after his murder conviction was overturned has become the subject of a fight between …

• 30 Tenn. courthouses receive bomb threats

  November 27, 2012 in Nation/World MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Bomb threats to 30 courthouses and other government buildings across Tennessee forced many to be evacuated Tuesday, including the federal building in Memphis, but authorities said …

• With Egypt’s Morsi, US facing a familiar dilemma

  November 27, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has been here before, praising an Egyptian leader for championing Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts while expressing concern over his commitment to democracy at home. But … 2

• 29 Tenn. courthouses receive bomb threats

  November 27, 2012 in Nation/World MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say the number of Tennessee courthouses involved in a rash of false bomb threats has risen to 29. Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security …

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