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Senate confirms White to head SEC

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

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Cruel and Unusual Punishment: The Shame of Three Strikes Laws

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Rolling Stone - By Matt Taibbi - Mar. 27 (Special Report) - Despite the passage in late 2012 of a new state ballot initiative that prevents California from ever again giving out life sentences to anyone whose "third strike" is not a serious crime, thousands of people – the overwhelming majority of them poor and nonwhite – remain imprisoned for a variety of offenses so absurd that any list of the unluckiest offenders reads like a macabre joke, a surrealistic comedy routine. Have you heard the one about the guy who got life for stealing a slice of pizza? Or the guy who went away forever for lifting a pair of baby shoes? Or the one who got 50 to life for helping himself to five children's videotapes from Kmart?

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Steubenville, Ohio, Football Players Convicted in Rape Trial

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - By Christina Ng - Mar. 18 (News Report) - Two Steubenville, Ohio, high school football players accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl have been found delinquent by a judge -- the juvenile court equivalent of guilty.

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South Africa's Pistorius goes free on $113,000 bail

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Reuters - By Peroshni Govender - Feb. 22 (News Report) - A South African court granted bail on Friday to Oscar Pistorius, charged with the murder of his girlfriend on Valentine's Day, after his lawyers successfully argued the "Blade Runner" was too famous to flee justice.

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REOPENING PROBE:LAPD to Investigate What Led to Ex-Cop's Firing

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - Feb. 10 (News Analysis) - BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. – The hunt for a former Los Angeles police officer suspected in three killings entered a fourth day in snow-covered mountains Sunday, a day after the LAPD chief ordered a review of the disciplinary case that led to the fugitive's di

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Former Mayor of New Orleans Is Charged in Sweeping Corruption Case

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Campbell Robertson - Jan. 19 (News Report) - C. Ray Nagin was indicted by a federal grand jury on Friday on 21 counts including conspiracy, bribery and money laundering.

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Aaron's Law

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Atlantic Monthly - By Lawrence Lessig - Jan. 16 (Special Report) - A week ago, Aaron Swartz -- social activist, geek genius -- took his own life. Facing the choice between a federal prosecutor who insisted that he either accept the label "felon" and go to jail or fight a million-dollar lawsuit against 13 felony indictments, Aaron took the third option, and hanged himself. And with that we all lost an incredible soul, one who had literally spent half of his 26-year-old life doing nothing except working for (at least his conception of) the public good. Aaron's alleged "crime" was that he used MIT's network to access a database of academic journal articles (JSTOR) and download millions of those articles to his laptop computer. He didn't "hack" the network to secure those downloads: MIT is a famously open network. He didn't crack any special password system to get behind JSTOR's digital walls. He simply figured out how JSTOR was filing the articles that he wanted, and wrote a simple script to quickly gather those articles and then copy them to his machine.

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Study finds corruption on rise among border agents, rep says security ‘at risk’

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Fox News - By Joseph Kolb - Jan. 15 (News Report) - A government watchdog report has identified a dramatic increase in documented corruption cases among U.S. border and immigration agents, finding nearly 150 have been arrested or indicted since 2005.

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Ohio rape case: Evidence on social media creates new world for justice system

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - Jan. 09 (News Analysis) - Investigators in the Ohio rape case confiscated electronic devices from those involved. Evidence from social media allows jurors to rely more on common sense and less on expert testimony. ...

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Casey Anthony appeals lying convictions

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - Jan. 08 (News Report) - Casey Anthony's attorneys are appealing her convictions on four counts of lying to authorities, claiming her statements were made before she'd been informed of her right to remain silent. ...

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Suit alleges feds profiled Muslim Americans at border searches

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Detroit Free Press - By Niraj Warikoo - Apr. 15 (News) - “It doesn’t make you feel like you’re in America.”

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Kenyan chief foils robbery via Twitter

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Faith Karimi - Feb. 18 (News Report) - A Kenyan chief in a town far from the bustling capital foiled a predawn robbery recently using Twitter, highlighting the far-reaching effects of social media in areas that don't have access to the Internet.

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Police kill armed 8th-grader in Texas school

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

CBS News - By CBS News - Jan. 04 (News Report) - Police shot and killed an armed eighth-grader who "engaged" officers in the main hallway of his middle school on Wednesday, the South Texas school district said.

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Justice Department Sues to Block AT&T's Takeover of T-Mobile

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Thomas Catan, Brent Kendall - Aug. 31 (News Report) - The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday sued to block AT&T Inc.'s proposed $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile USA, saying the combination of the second- and fourth-largest U.S. cellphone companies would hurt competition and likely raise prices. The antitrust challenge comes shortly after the Obama administration also blocked Nasdaq OMX Group's proposed offer for NYSE Euronext and shows its desire to put new teeth into antitrust enforcement after what it says was lax enforcement under the previous administration.

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Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes?

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Rolling Stone - By Matt Taibbi - Aug. 17 (Investigative Report) - Imagine a world in which a man who is repeatedly investigated for a string of serious crimes, but never prosecuted, has his slate wiped clean every time the cops fail to make a case. No more Lifetime channel specials where the murderer is unveiled after

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Facebook users jailed over 'riot that never was'

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

MSNBC - Aug. 17 (News Report) - Two British men have been sentenced to four years in prison for trying to organize riots on Facebook, according to reports.

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Clean-up as England riots spread

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Aug. 10 (News Report) - The prime minister has said the "fightback" is under way, after cities in England suffered a fourth night of violence and looting. David Cameron said every action would be taken to restore order, with contingency plans for water cannon to be available at 24 hours' notice. On Tuesday night, unrest spread to cities including Manchester, Salford, Liverpool, Nottingham and Birmingham. Three men aged 21, 30 and 31 died when they were hit by a car in Birmingham. Haroon Jahan, Shahzad Ali, and Abdul Musavir were taken to hospital but died from their injuries.

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FBI examining alleged News Corp. phone hacking

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Jerry Markon - Jul. 14 (Breaking News) - The FBI has opened a preliminary review into allegations that News Corp. employees sought to hack into the phones of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, two U.S. officials said.

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Mexican troops replace police in half a state that borders Texas

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Mariano Castillo - Jun. 25 (News) - Mexican troops fanned out across the border state of Tamaulipas this weekend, taking over security operations in half the state's cities and towns.

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Report describes gun agents' 'state of panic'

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Kim Murphy - Jun. 15 (News Report) - Federal gun agents, concerned about weapons sales to Mexican drug suspects, begged to make arrests but were rebuffed, according to a congressional report on a controversial investigation.

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Nearly 600 Arrested in Asian Swindling Ring

Sat, 11 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Michael Wines - Jun. 11 (Breaking News) - The sweep was reported to have shut down 161 boiler-room operations in Taiwan, China, Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia and Thailand, each employing sophisticated frauds.

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Two Iraqi refugees in U.S. charged in terrorism-related case

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Brian Bennett, Michael A. Memoli - Jun. 01 (News Report) - Two men are charged with sending cash, explosives and missiles to Iraq for use against Americans. Their case underscores gaps identified in the U.S. refugee vetting process before last year.

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WikiLeaks accused Bradley Manning 'should never have been sent to Iraq'

Sat, 28 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Maggie O'Kane, Chavala Madlena, Guy Grandjean - May. 28 (Investigative Report) - Guardian exclusive: Soldier held over US intelligence leak was known to be mentally fragile and unsuited to army life The American soldier at the centre of the WikiLeaks revelations was so mentally fragile before his deployment to Iraq that he wet himself, threw chairs around, shouted at his commanding officers and was regularly brought in for psychiatric evaluations, according to an investigative film produced by the Guardian . Bradley Manning, who was detained a year ago on Sunday in connection with the biggest security leak in US military history, was a "mess of a child" who should never have been put through a tour of duty in Iraq, according to an officer from the Fort Leonard Wood military base in Missouri, where Manning trained in 2007. The officer's words reinforce a leaked confidential military report that reveals that other senior officers thought he was unfit to go to Iraq. "He was harassed so much that he once pissed in his sweatpants," the officer said. "I escorted Manning ...

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Scandals Plague Controversial Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio

Fri, 27 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - By Paul Atkinson - May. 27 (News Report) - The self-professed "toughest sheriff in America" vows to remain in office despite facing a growing number of serious problems.

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Supreme Court gives police leeway in home searches

Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By David G. Savage - May. 17 (News Report) - The Supreme Court gave police more leeway to break into homes or apartments in search of illegal drugs when they suspect the evidence otherwise might be destroyed.

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