WASHINGTON – Previously classified documents being released Monday show numerous misuses of FBI surveillance, including improper searches and seizures of e-mails and bank records, The Washington Post reported in Monday’s editions. The documents, which were turned over under a Freedom of Information Act (search) lawsuit filed by the Electronic Privacy …
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The Alaska Supreme Court ruled Friday it is unconstitutional to deny benefits to the same-sex partners of public employees, a victory for gay rights advocates in one of the first states to pass a constitutional ban on gay marriage. Overturning a lower court ruling, the state high …
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LOS ANGELES – George Takei (search), who as helmsman Sulu steered the Starship Enterprise through three television seasons and six movies, has come out as a homosexual in the current issue of Frontiers, a biweekly Los Angeles magazine covering the gay and lesbian community. Takei told The Associated Press on …
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WASHINGTON – Orders to U.S. factories posted the best increase in three months in August as the manufacturing sector showed strength in the face of surging energy prices. The Commerce Department (search) reported that orders rose by 2.5 percent to $395.2 billion, led by strong demand for computers and other …
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WASHINGTON – U.S. regulators said Thursday they had received 21 reports of device failures, including three deaths, linked to some Guidant Corp. (GDT) implanted heart defibrillators as of Oct. 7. The Food and Drug Administration (search) said six of the cases had been reported after the agency issued a public …
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AUSTIN, Texas – Attorneys for two co-defendants of Rep. Tom DeLay (search) made it clear Friday they’re not in the same rush to get to trial as the former House majority leader and they want to distance themselves in other ways as well. The defense team for Jim Ellis (search) …
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Monday is the 10th anniversary of the O.J. Simpson (search) verdict. Lots of people have thoughts about what that day meant in American justice and American race relations — and a bunch of other high-minded topics. I remember it as the day cable news started — the cable news we …
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – More than 9,000 mobile homes and campers meant for the victims of Hurricane Katrina are sitting unused at government staging areas while displaced families continue to live out of tents and shelters. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (search) says the backlog was inevitable: The temporary housing is …
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WASHINGTON – President Bush (search) tried Tuesday to begin reviving U.S. support for the war in Iraq and reinvigorating his troubled presidency as the U.S. military death toll topped 2,000. “I know this is a trying time for our military spouses,” Bush said at a Joint Armed Forces Officer Wives’ …
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Federal drug agents launched a wide-ranging crackdown on medical marijuana providers (search) in northern California, arresting at least 17 people in San Francisco and Sacramento. Fifteen people were arrested in San Francisco as drug agents searched three pot clubs and more than 20 homes and businesses Wednesday, …
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