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Tug-of-war over Iraqi Jewish trove in US hands
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A trove of Jewish books and other materials, rescued from a sewage-filled Baghdad basement during the 2003 invasion, is now caught up in a tug-of-war between the U.S. and Iraq.
Ranging from a medieval religious book to children's Hebrew...Tags: Justice and Rights, Civil Rights, Hobbies, Judaism, Crime, Law and Justice
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More allegations against Vollbach revealed
EAST JORDAN -- Public school officials in East Jordan spent the last couple of months investigating longtime elementary art teacher Paula Vollbach and her alleged pattern of verbal abuse and forceful physical contact with no fewer than 15 students --...Tags: Justice System, Human Interest, Arts, Crime, Law and Justice, Employees
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Serious In Syria
KIAHIt's getting more serious in Syria, with Americans under attack. Pro-government mobs are vandalizing the U.S. Embassy, raising a Syrian flag over the compound and protesters have also attacked the home of U.S. Ambassador Robert Ford who said on the...Tags: Syria, Freedom of the Press, Egyptian Revolution (2011-12), U.S. Embassy, Demonstration
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Twitter's new censorship plan stirs global furor
Los Angeles TimesTwitter has promoted itself as a beacon of free speech, and that image was burnished when revolutionaries used the social media service to organize protests during last year's Arab Spring uprising. But in what many view as an about-face, Twitter now says...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Facebook, Media Industry, Los Angeles Times, Business Enterprises
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Panel discusses Supreme Court's liberal leanings
IRVINE — A panel of law experts and media met at UC Irvine on Wednesday to discuss how the conservative-leaning U.S. Supreme Court has frequently come down on the liberal side of several major issues. The panel — consisting of Slate Senior...Tags: Antonin Scalia, Freedom of the Press, Chicago Hotels, Elena Kagan, Los Angeles Times
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City outlaws 'unruly behavior' at meetings
CARLSBAD -- In a battle over what you can say and how you can act, the Carlsbad City Council has cracked down on the latter in a year-long dispute over public meeting decorum.
Tuesday, council members approved a series of changes to its rules on public...Tags: Civil Rights, Justice and Rights, Freedom of the Press, Chicago Hotels, Crime, Law and Justice
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White House emails show Obama White House attacking, excluding Fox News
The Baltimore SunI honestly don't know if I have the emotional energy for this post today. I fought this battle in 2009 when the White House went to war with Fox, and I have the scars to prove it. I am so tired of standing up for journalistic principles in the middle...Tags: News Corp., White House, Rupert Murdoch, Freedom of the Press, Human Interest
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Websites go black to protest anti-piracy bills in Congress
LOS ANGELES TIMESWhat would the world be like without the Internet? Fire up your browser and see what you can't do. In the first strike of its kind, hundreds of popular sites such as Wikipedia, Reddit and Boing Boing temporarily shut down Wednesday to protest a pair of...Tags: Justice System, Companies and Corporations, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Piracy, Business Enterprises
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Superintendent merry-go-round yields fat severances
Tribune reportersStanley Fields resigned after just a year as superintendent of a suburban Cook County school district where he was put on leave, faced with firing and ultimately required to apologize to the community. Still, he walked away with a $100,000 severance...Tags: Justice System, Employers, Retirement, Breach of Contract, Corporate Crime
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A.C.L.U. seeks information on how police departments track cell phones
Q13 FOX News ReporterJust about everyone has a cell phone and a lot of us have two - one work phone, one personal phone. With GPS and location technology so readily available the ACLU wants to know when, why, and how local law enforcement agencies are using the information...Tags: Crimes, Cell Phones, Crime, Law and Justice, Washington (U.S. state), American Civil Liberties Union
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50 Chicago cops to be deployed to rail, bus stations
Tribune reporterMayor Rahm Emanuel plans to hire 50 full-time police officers to patrol rail and bus stations around the city. The officers will come from the fall class of the Chicago Police Academy and will be detailed to public transportation by the spring of 2012....Tags: Forrest Claypool, Rahm Emanuel, Crime, Law and Justice, Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago Mayor
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Teacher pension study based on incomplete science
Thomas A. Firey's recent suggestion in The Sun ("Better pension reform," July 27) of a statewide "buy-back" program for public employees to reduce Maryland's future public pension should be vetted very closely by citizens and officials, given the...Tags: Career and Workplace, Retirement, Springfield, Illinois, Science
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