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White House stands ground on high court criticism
March 14, 2010WASHINGTON -- The White House on Sunday defended President Barack Obama's scathing criticism of a Supreme Court decision that allows unions and corporations to funnel unlimited dollars to political campaigns.
Suit seeks to bar genetically modified sugar beets
March 14, 2010PHILOMATH, Ore. -- Organic farmers fear this year's spring breezes will be carrying pollen from genetically altered sugar beets, which they say could render their crops worthless, and they hope to persuade a federal judge this week to halt the plantings nationwide.
Suit seeks to bar genetically modified sugar beets
March 14, 2010PHILOMATH, Ore. -- Organic farmers fear this year's spring breezes will be carrying pollen from genetically altered sugar beets, which they say could render their crops worthless, and they hope to persuade a federal judge this week to halt the plantings nationwide.
Court turns down energy company over Okla. taxes
March 14, 2010WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from an energy company over a court ruling that could allow counties in Oklahoma to collect taxes on natural gas that is shipped by pipelines that run through the counties.
Gun case presents quandary for Supreme Court justices
March 14, 2010 As a member of the Junior ROTC, teenager Antonin Scalia toted his rifle on the subway ride back and forth to Queens. As a hunter, he speaks lyrically of stalking wild turkeys. And as a justice, he may have reached the pinnacle of his more than two decades on the Supreme Court when he wrote the majority opinion that said the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to own a firearm.
Critics: Military trial of terror suspects could open cases to legal uncertainty
March 14, 2010Using a military commission to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-defendants for their alleged role in the Sept. 11 attacks could open the case to significant legal uncertainty and expose fresh details of detainee abuse in a proceeding that might not get underway for two years or longer, national security experts and plan critics say.
Gay marriage announcement puts Gansler back into spotlight
March 14, 2010The old guard in Annapolis greeted the election result with a measure of dread. Replacing J. Joseph Curran Jr., a lion of Maryland politics with 20 years as attorney general, was Douglas F. Gansler, the brash, unpredictable young Montgomery County prosecutor with a reputation, not all of it good.
Playwright Terrence McNally's love of opera takes center stage at Kennedy Center
March 14, 2010From his aisle seat in the Kennedy Center, dressed in a comfy sweater and corduroy slacks, Terrence McNally is gazing serenely at the Opera House stage.
Despite brashness, Bunning still a hero in Ky.
March 14, 2010 HEBRON, Ky. -- Irascible Republican U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning has been a pariah among his congressional colleagues. Back in the conservative swath of northern Kentucky he calls home, though, he's being heralded as a hero.
Obama chooses 1st young appeals court nominee
March 14, 2010WASHINGTON -- Thirteen months into his presidency, Barack Obama finally gave liberal supporters the kind of judicial nominee they had sought and conservatives feared.
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