Tue Nov 3, 2009 9:59 AM EST
I'm not a Scrooge, really. I embrace almost all of Christmas. Except for one time-honored tradition that brings so much stress and expense that eliminating it has made the holiday even more magical.
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Thu Oct 1, 2009 11:04 AM EDT
A federal judge ruled Thursday that the FBI must publicly reveal much of its notes from an interview with former Vice President Dick Cheney during the investigation into who leaked the identity of a CIA operative.
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Wed Sep 30, 2009 8:06 PM EDT
Victims of terrorism supported by Iran are not getting justice from U.S. courts, a frustrated federal judge said Wednesday as he proposed that the president and Congress come up with a new policy to hold Tehran accountable.
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Wed Sep 30, 2009 5:08 PM EDT
Civil liberties and Muslim groups say domestic surveillance guidelines recently revealed by the FBI show the agency could be spying on Americans who are not involved in crime or terrorism.
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Tue Sep 29, 2009 11:30 AM EDT
A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a program that requires some members of the military to be vaccinated against anthrax over objections from service members who say the vaccine has not been proven to be effective.
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Fri Sep 25, 2009 3:56 PM EDT
A federal judge has ordered the release of a Kuwaiti man held at Guantanamo Bay and rebuked the U.S. government for relying on scant evidence, uncredible witnesses and coerced confessions to hold him for more than seven years.
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Fri Sep 25, 2009 2:11 PM EDT
A former executive assistant to California Rep. Loretta Sanchez was sentenced Friday to three years probation for stealing office funds to get herself pizza, groceries, airline tickets and an authorized bonus.
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Thu Sep 24, 2009 2:03 PM EDT
A Dutch company and the father and son who managed it pleaded guilty Thursday to exporting American-made aircraft parts to Iran in violation of U.S. embargoes.
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Fri Sep 18, 2009 3:23 PM EDT
Three Haitian men were sentenced to 15 years in prison Friday for kidnapping an American teenager and her Haitian classmate for ransom.
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Fri Sep 18, 2009 12:55 PM EDT
Independent advocacy groups will be able to spend more money to try to influence federal elections under a decision Friday from a federal appeals court that overturned rules limiting nonprofits' campaign spending.
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Thu Sep 17, 2009 4:35 PM EDT
A top aide to former Attorney General John Ashcroft claimed his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination Thursday in a trial related to the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal.
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Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:13 PM EDT
The Obama administration argued late Monday that allowing terrorism detainees in Afghanistan to file lawsuits in U.S. courts challenging their detention would endanger the military mission in that country.
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Wed Sep 9, 2009 2:50 PM EDT
A former top official for Voice of America has pleaded not guilty to accusations that he was corrupted after being lavishly entertained by now-imprisoned lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
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Tue Sep 8, 2009 2:02 PM EDT
A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a 2007 law that requires trade associations to disclose their members who contribute to lobbying activities.
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Sun Sep 6, 2009 9:15 AM EDT
Years into the scandal, a protege of Jack Abramoff is the first member of the imprisoned lobbyist's team going before a jury to fight federal corruption charges that will put their very profession on trial.
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Tue Sep 1, 2009 12:19 PM EDT
A judge ruled that evidence suggests a Kuwaiti man held at Guantanamo Bay was part of terrorist forces, even though in a bid for freedom he claimed to be an Islamic studies teacher who didn't associate with extremists.
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Fri Aug 28, 2009 5:01 PM EDT
A judge on Friday dismissed a major international drug case and ordered that the alleged dealer not be charged again after the prosecution fell apart.
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Fri Aug 28, 2009 2:36 PM EDT
Fourteen years after a mass kidnapping of four Americans and other vacationers at a Philippine resort, an alleged Muslim militant accused of leading the hostage-taking has been brought to the United States to face criminal charges.
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Thu Aug 27, 2009 3:51 PM EDT
The U.S. government has asked a judge to throw out a lawsuit brought by a former State Department official demanding diplomatic immunity against charges that she helped kidnap a terrorism suspect in Italy.
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Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:09 PM EDT
A sixth person who worked at the State Department has pleaded guilty to sneaking a peek at celebrity passport files.
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Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:20 PM EDT
A judge on Wednesday denied an advocacy group's bid to prevent the government from giving pregnant women flu vaccines with a preservative that contains mercury.
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Fri Aug 21, 2009 5:23 PM EDT
A Yemeni man's family ties to Osama bin Laden and admission that he met with the terrorist mastermind in the weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks are not enough to continue holding him at Guantanamo Bay, a judge wrote in an order released Friday.
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Wed Aug 19, 2009 12:53 PM EDT
The Army on Wednesday won a court challenge to its plan to incinerate chemical weapons at storage sites around the country over objections from a watchdog group that says the practice releases toxic pollution.
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Mon Aug 17, 2009 2:18 PM EDT
A fifth State Department worker has been convicted of snooping into the passport files of famous Americans.
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Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:29 PM EDT
Imprisoned former lobbyist Jack Abramoff will have to get the court's permission to spend what's left of a half-million dollar tax refund and any more money he receives, a judge ruled Tuesday.
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