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Committee defeats bill increasing hunter trespassing penalties
PIERRE, S.D. - South Dakota is known for its hunting, but during hunting seasons, some landowners say they see many people trespassing on their personal property. Senate Bill 183 sought to increase penalties for people caught trespassing while hunting....
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Judges, Lawyers, Hunting, Justice System
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Column: Head-in-the-sand Congress
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., a former chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is hopping mad. Sensenbrenner considers himself the father of the Patriot Act, the 2001 law that gave the federal government new powers to investigate potential...Tags: The Washington Post, U.S. Congress, Saxby Chambliss, F James Jr Sensenbrenner, Eric Holder
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After jail scandal, spotlight on growing role of women officers
The 19-year-old felt sick to her stomach when she stepped into the Baltimore prison once nicknamed "Supermax" for her first day of work as a corrections officer. The place was dark and dingy, and she had never been around so many men before. When...
Tags: Maryland Transit Administration, Colleges and Universities, Politics, Justice System, Labor Legislation
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Legislature split over protection orders for same-sex abuses
PIERRE — This summer and fall, nine members of the Legislature will oversee a comprehensive review of domestic abuse in South Dakota. There is a divisive undercurrent that helped lead to the study. That is treatment of same-sex couples...Tags: U.S. Senate, Politics, Medical Research, Justice System, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
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New abortion rules assume women are really stupid
The House Judiciary Committee, dominated by Republican men who still have not learned to avoid the subject of rape and pregnancy, took up the issue of abortion this week. Normally, the news about abortion focuses on the machinations of conservative...
Tags: Trent Franks, American Civil Liberties Union, Politics, Justice System, Kermit Gosnell
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Snowden smuggled out data on thumb drive, officials say
WASHINGTON — Former National Security Agency contract employee Edward Snowden used a computer thumb drive, a portable data storage device that is supposedly barred inside the spying agency, to smuggle highly classified documents out of an NSA...
Tags: The Washington Post, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., U.S. Congress, Espionage Act of 1917, Hong Kong
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Laying odds on immigration bill's future
The immigration debate that began this week in the Senate looms as the most consequential in years - for the country's growing Hispanic population and both major political parties. The bill's fate could have more effect on future presidential and...Tags: U.S. Congress, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, John McCain, Politics, Parties and Movements
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FBI director defends secret surveillance programs
WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert Mueller III strongly defended the government’s secret collection of millions of phone logs and emails Thursday, saying federal judges, Congress and the Department of Justice inspector general’s office...
Tags: FBI, U.S. Congress, John Conyers, Jr., Judges, Edward Snowden
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Newtown Families Returning to Washington
The Hartford CourantNewtown gun control advocates will travel to Washington this week to lobby lawmakers and to raise awareness for their cause as they approach the six-month anniversary of the school shootings. Family members of Daniel Barden, Lauren Rousseau, Jesse Lewis,...Tags: Eric Cantor, Gun Control, U.S. Senate, Politics, Nancy Pelosi
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House votes to stop deportation deferrals
WASHINGTON - The partisan divide over immigration reform was exposed Thursday as House Republicans voted to stop funding the Obama administration program that has halted deportation of young immigrants who are in high school or college, or have served...Tags: Deportation, Politics, U.S. Senate, Parties and Movements, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Online tax cheats: Being young is no excuse
Contrary to what it claimed Thursday, the libertarian advocacy group Generation Opportunity hasn't killed a Senate-passed bill to compel most online retailers to collect sales taxes. But the group seems to have done its best to mislead and confuse the...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Television Industry, Computers and Software, Politics, U.S. Senate
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U.S. Supreme Court authorizes post-arrest DNA collection
The Baltimore SunA divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that police in Maryland and elsewhere can continue the warrantless collection of DNA from people arrested — but not convicted — of serious crimes. The 5-4 decision upheld a state law that allows...Tags: Police Arrests, Sonia Sotomayor, American Civil Liberties Union, Crimes, Biotechnology Industry
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