Politics

THE RACE: Massachusetts is campaign target again

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 17:55
Once again, Massachusetts is in the cross hairs of a presidential race....

THE RACE: Romney has some hard choices to make

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 17:55
Not only must Mitt Romney pick a running mate, he also needs to decide which former rivals he'll invite to speak at the Republican National Convention in Tampa in August - if any. It won't be an easy decision....

THE RACE: Obama, Romney busy redefining each other

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 17:55
President Barack Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney are working hard at this stage of the campaign to paint each other in as stark and unattractive colors as possible....

THE RACE: Obama, Romney working to stay on message

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 17:55
President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are being buffeted by crosswinds as Obama fights to keep his job and Romney works to wrest it from him. Both know where they want to go, but getting there is something else....

Zimmerman in custody, to be charged with 2nd-degree murder

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman is being charged with second-degree murder in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teenager whose death ignited nationwide protests.

Special prosecutor Angela Corey says that the 28-year-old Zimmerman is in custody. She wouldn't disclose Zimmerman's whereabouts for his safety, but ...

Best of the Web Today: AuBHO

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2025-05-14 17:55
The president's intriguing analogy to 1964.


GOP lawmaker says 75-plus Dems are communists

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 17:55
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican Rep. Allen West said he believes 75-plus House Democrats are members of the Communist Party, a claim that echoed Joe McCarthy's unsubstantiated 1950s charges that communists had infiltrated the top ranks of the U.S. government....

Poll: Party platforms a mystery to many

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 17:55
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As Barack Obama and Mitt Romney look to the November election, a new poll from the Pew Research Center finds a sizable share of the public is unsure which side the presidential candidates' political parties take on some of the country's most divisive issues, including the size of the federal government, gay rights and abortion....

Poll: Party platforms a mystery to many

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 17:55
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As Barack Obama and Mitt Romney look to the November election, a new poll from the Pew Research Center finds a sizable share of the public is unsure which side the presidential candidates' political parties take on some of the country's most divisive issues, including the size of the federal government, gay rights and abortion....

Poll: Party platforms a mystery to many

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 17:55
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As Barack Obama and Mitt Romney look to the November election, a new poll from the Pew Research Center finds a sizable share of the public is unsure which side the presidential candidates' political parties take on some of the country's most divisive issues, including the size of the federal government, gay rights and abortion....

Poll: Party platforms a mystery to many

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 17:55
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As Barack Obama and Mitt Romney look to the November election, a new poll from the Pew Research Center finds a sizable share of the public is unsure which side the presidential candidates' political parties take on some of the country's most divisive issues, including the size of the federal government, gay rights and abortion....

Poll: Party platforms a mystery to many

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 17:55
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As Barack Obama and Mitt Romney look to the November election, a new poll from the Pew Research Center finds a sizable share of the public is unsure which side the presidential candidates' political parties take on some of the country's most divisive issues, including the size of the federal government, gay rights and abortion....

Romney says a Michigan win gives him presidency

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 17:55
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) -- Mitt Romney says he thinks he can win Michigan - and that if he does, he'll win the presidency....

'Super' PACs largely free to spend remaining cash

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 17:55
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When a presidential candidate throws in the towel, what can a "super" PAC that once supported the campaign spend its money on?...

Romney still faces challenges on right

CNN - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 17:55
Typically when a presidential candidate wraps up his party's nomination after months of reaching out to base voters in the primaries, the question becomes whether he can appeal to the political center for the general election.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

EFF: "Radical Library/Publisher and Prison Support Group Settle Lawsuit with FBI and UC-Berkeley Police over Improper Raid"

FourthAmendment.com - News - Wed, 2025-05-14 17:55

EFF: Radical Library/Publisher and Prison Support Group Settle Lawsuit with FBI and UC-Berkeley Police over Improper Raid
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Berkeley, CA - Two radical groups have settled their lawsuits over an armed, over-broad police raid after the law enforcement agencies agreed to delete improperly seized computer data and pay $100,000 in damages and attorney's fees. Moreover, the University of California-Berkeley Police Department (UCBPD) acknowledged that at the time of the raid one of the groups qualified for federal protections designed to protect journalists, publishers, and other distributors of information from police searches, despite the police's persistent denial of that status throughout the lawsuit.

Planned Parenthood sues Texas over exclusion

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Eight Planned Parenthood organizations sued Texas on Wednesday for excluding them from participating in a program that provides contraception and checkups to women, saying the new rule violates their constitutional rights to freedom of speech and association.

The groups, none of which provide abortions, contend in the ...

THE RACE: Obama, Romney grapple with euro crisis

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 17:55
President Barack Obama is out of the country for a few days but hardly off the campaign trail....

THE RACE: JPMorgan goof becoming a campaign issue

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 17:55
JPMorgan Chase's $2 billion-plus trading blunder is reverberating on the presidential campaign trail by rekindling calls for tighter oversight of the nation's biggest financial institutions....

Super PACs largely free to spend remaining cash

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 17:55
WASHINGTON (AP) -- "Super" political committees can spend their money on nearly anything they want once their favored presidential candidates drop out of the race....
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