Sunday, April 22, 2012

U.S. Supreme Court immigration case weighs states' powers

U.S. Supreme Court immigration case weighs states' powers


U.S. Supreme Court immigration case weighs states' powers

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People relax on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A clash over immigration law will go before the U.S. Supreme Court this week, pitting the state of Arizona against President Barack Obama in a case with election-year political ramifications for him and Republican rival Mitt Romney. In its second-biggest case this term, the court - fresh from hearing the Obama healthcare overhaul case - will consider on Wednesday whether a tough Arizona immigration crackdown strayed too far into the federal government's powers. ...


Congress presses investigation of Secret Service scandal

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Prostitutes walk on the square of the old city in CartagenaWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two senior Republicans in the House of Representatives expressed confidence on Sunday in the head of the U.S. Secret Service, despite the agency's Colombia prostitution scandal while a Senate committee chairman planned hearings into the matter. Senator Joseph Lieberman, an independent, said that the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that he chairs will send specific questions to the Secret Service this week about the scandal before the panel holds public hearings. The Secret Service, which protects the president, vice president and other prominent U.S. ...


Former presidential hopeful John Edwards faces trial

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WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - Former U.S. Senator John Edwards goes on trial Monday on charges he used illegal campaign contributions to cover up an affair with a mistress who became pregnant during his failed bid for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. Edwards is accused of accepting more than $900,000 in campaign funds from two wealthy donors, knowing the exposure of his extramarital affair "would destroy his presidential campaign," prosecutors said in a trial brief. The candidate at the time was a married father of three, whose late wife, Elizabeth, had breast cancer. ...

Search for long missing New York boy fails to find remains

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FBI agents and New York City police officers remove concrete from a New York City apartment building where they were searching a basement for clues in the 1979 disappearance of Etan PatzInvestigators searching a New York basement for clues about the 1979 disappearance of a 6-year-old boy have ended their digging at the scene after "nothing conclusive was found" from a four-day excavation, a law enforcement source said on Sunday. Etan Patz was one of the first missing children in the United States to have his photograph printed on milk cartons after he disappeared, and his case helped fuel an intense national campaign in search of missing children in the 1980s. ...


Starved Dallas boy's remains may have been found

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DALLAS, Texas (Reuters) - Human remains discovered in a creek in a wooded area south of Dallas may be those of a missing 10-year-old boy who police say apparently was starved to death last year. Dallas police on Sunday said they could not confirm whether the remains were those of Johnathan Ramsey until forensics and DNA testing were completed. Police said they found the remains during a search for the boy's body. Police began searching for the child's body in March after arresting his father and stepmother in connection with his disappearance. ...

Tulsa, Oklahoma's racial divide bedevils plan to honor MLK

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TULSA, Oklahoma (Reuters) - This city, where a history of racial tension was inflamed by the Good Friday shootings of five black people, plans to name a street in honor of civil rights pioneer Dr. Martin Luther King but only the section that passes through a predominantly black part of a city. The challenges in winning approval for the move and getting it put into place -- including the need to scale the proposal down to get it passed by the largely white city council -- illustrate Tulsa's legacy of racial animosities and resistance to change. ...

U.S. gasoline posts first price drop since December: survey

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(Reuters) - The average retail price of a gallon of gasoline in the United States declined for the first time since mid-December, dropping 5.44 cents over the past two weeks, the nationwide Lundberg Survey showed. The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline fell to $3.9127 on April 20, from $3.9671 on April 6, according to the survey of gasoline retailers in the continental United States. Still, drivers are paying 3.27 cents more for a gallon than they did a year ago. ...

Republicans eye health plan should court overturn reform

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House Republican leaders walk towards House Chamber on Capitol Hill in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in Congress are getting ready to answer an election-year question that has dogged the party's campaign for months: How would it replace President Barack Obama's healthcare law if the measure is overturned or repealed? House Republicans are working to create a legislative blueprint they can sell to voters after the Supreme Court rules on Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the nation's most sweeping healthcare legislation since Medicare and Medicaid in the 1960s. ...


Winter punches back with snow, heavy rain in Northeast U.S.

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(Reuters) - Wintry weather was set to make a comeback with as much as a foot or more of snow on the way in the northeastern United States on Sunday, while other parts of New England faced the threat of flooding. After a relatively mild winter, winter storm warnings were in effect in parts of Pennsylvania and New York for Sunday night through Wednesday. Heavy snow was expected to start falling late Sunday with up to 14 inches possible, potentially causing downed trees and power outages, according to the National Weather Service. ...

Congress presses investigation of Secret Service scandal

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Prostitutes walk on the square of the old city in CartagenaWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two senior House of Representatives Republicans expressed confidence in the head of the U.S. Secret Service on Sunday despite the agency's Colombia prostitution scandal while a Senate committee chairman planned hearings into the matter. Senator Joseph Lieberman, an independent, said that the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that he chairs will send specific questions to the Secret Service this week about the scandal before the panel holds public hearings. Other congressional committees also are investigating. ...


Nor'easter to bring heavy rain and snow to U.S. East

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(Reuters) - Heavy rains and snow will soon pound the eastern United States, possibly leading to downed trees, power outages and flight delays as a low pressure system from the Gulf of Mexico moves through the region, meteorologists said on Saturday. Intense precipitation from the Nor'easter storm will start on Sunday, with two to four inches of downpour expected along the Mid-Atlantic Coast, which will make for soggy conditions in New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. ...

New York search for 'milk carton' boy finds stain on wall

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FBI agents and New York City police officers remove concrete from a New York City apartment building where they were searching a basement for clues in the 1979 disappearance of Etan PatzInvestigators searching a New York basement for clues about the 1979 disappearance of a 6-year-old boy have ended their search after "nothing conclusive was found," a law enforcement source said on Sunday. Etan Patz was one of the first missing children in the United States to have his photograph printed on milk cartons after he disappeared and helped fuel an intense national campaign in search of missing children in the 1980s. ...


Search for long missing New York boy fails to find remains

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FBI agents and New York City police officers remove concrete from a New York City apartment building where they were searching a basement for clues in the 1979 disappearance of Etan PatzInvestigators searching a New York basement for clues about the 1979 disappearance of a 6-year-old boy have ended their digging at the scene after "nothing conclusive was found" from a four-day excavation, a law enforcement source said on Sunday. Etan Patz was one of the first missing children in the United States to have his photograph printed on milk cartons after he disappeared, and his case helped fuel an intense national campaign in search of missing children in the 1980s. ...


Congress presses investigation of Secret Service scandal

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Prostitutes walk on the square of the old city in CartagenaWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two senior Republicans in the House of Representatives expressed confidence on Sunday in the head of the U.S. Secret Service, despite the agency's Colombia prostitution scandal while a Senate committee chairman planned hearings into the matter. Senator Joseph Lieberman, an independent, said that the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that he chairs will send specific questions to the Secret Service this week about the scandal before the panel holds public hearings. The Secret Service, which protects the president, vice president and other prominent U.S. ...


Tulsa, Oklahoma's racial divide bedevils plan to honor MLK

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TULSA, Oklahoma (Reuters) - This city, where a history of racial tension was inflamed by the Good Friday shootings of five black people, plans to name a street in honor of civil rights pioneer Dr. Martin Luther King but only the section that passes through a predominantly black part of a city. The challenges in winning approval for the move and getting it put into place -- including the need to scale the proposal down to get it passed by the largely white city council -- illustrate Tulsa's legacy of racial animosities and resistance to change. ...

New York search for 'milk carton' boy finds stain on wall

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FBI agents and New York City police officers remove concrete from a New York City apartment building where they were searching a basement for clues in the 1979 disappearance of Etan PatzInvestigators searching a New York basement for clues about the 1979 disappearance of a 6-year-old boy have ended their search after "nothing conclusive was found," a law enforcement source said on Sunday. Etan Patz was one of the first missing children in the United States to have his photograph printed on milk cartons after he disappeared and helped fuel an intense national campaign in search of missing children in the 1980s. ...


Police hope grainy photos catch banker's shooter

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Handout image shows suspected gunman in the shooting of former Russian banker German Gorbuntsov in LondonThe police released grainy photos on Monday of a man suspected of shooting a former Russian banker near London's Canary Wharf financial district in a case that has raised fears that Russian gangland violence could be spreading to Britain. Financier German Gorbuntsov, 45, was shot five times as he entered a block of flats where he lives near the River Thames in the east of the capital on March 20. He survived the attack, but was critically injured and is recovering in hospital where his condition was described as stable. ...


Winter punches back with snow, heavy rain in Northeast U.S.

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(Reuters) - Wintry weather was set to make a comeback with as much as a foot or more of snow on the way in the northeastern United States on Sunday, while other parts of New England faced the threat of flooding. After a relatively mild winter, winter storm warnings were in effect in parts of Pennsylvania and New York for Sunday night through Wednesday. Heavy snow was expected to start falling late Sunday with up to 14 inches possible, potentially causing downed trees and power outages, according to the National Weather Service. ...

Starved Dallas boy's remains may have been found

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DALLAS, Texas (Reuters) - Human remains discovered in a creek in a wooded area south of Dallas may be those of a missing 10-year-old boy who police say apparently was starved to death last year. Dallas police on Sunday said they could not confirm whether the remains were those of Johnathan Ramsey until forensics and DNA testing were completed. Police said they found the remains during a search for the boy's body. Police began searching for the child's body in March after arresting his father and stepmother in connection with his disappearance. ...

U.S. gasoline posts first price drop since December: survey

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(Reuters) - The average retail price of a gallon of gasoline in the United States declined for the first time since mid-December, dropping 5.44 cents over the past two weeks, the nationwide Lundberg Survey showed. The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline fell to $3.9127 on April 20, from $3.9671 on April 6, according to the survey of gasoline retailers in the continental United States. Still, drivers are paying 3.27 cents more for a gallon than they did a year ago. ...

Congress presses investigation of Secret Service scandal

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Prostitutes walk on the square of the old city in CartagenaWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two senior House of Representatives Republicans expressed confidence in the head of the U.S. Secret Service on Sunday despite the agency's Colombia prostitution scandal while a Senate committee chairman planned hearings into the matter. Senator Joseph Lieberman, an independent, said that the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that he chairs will send specific questions to the Secret Service this week about the scandal before the panel holds public hearings. Other congressional committees also are investigating. ...


Former presidential hopeful John Edwards faces trial

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WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - Former U.S. Senator John Edwards goes on trial Monday on charges he used illegal campaign contributions to cover up an affair with a mistress who became pregnant during his failed bid for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. Edwards is accused of accepting more than $900,000 in campaign funds from two wealthy donors, knowing the exposure of his extramarital affair "would destroy his presidential campaign," prosecutors said in a trial brief. The candidate at the time was a married father of three, whose late wife, Elizabeth, had breast cancer. ...

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