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American Scene: Harvard alumni directory updates Unabomber entry

BOSTON — Harvard University alumni attending their 50th-anniversary class reunion this week are getting updates on classmates - including Unabomber Ted Kaczynski.

Kaczynski graduated in 1962 and is locked up in the federal Supermax prison in Colorado for killing three people and injuring 23 during a nationwide bombing spree between ...

Times' Emily Miller wins Mollenhoff Award

Washington Times Senior Editor for Opinion Emily Miller was awarded the Clark Mollenhoff Award for Investigative Reporting from the Institute on Political Journalism.

The Mollenhoff award was given to Ms. Miller for her "Emily Gets Her Gun" series, which ultimately resulted in review of onerous gun regulations by Washington, D.C., ...

'Pro-choice' Americans found in record-low minority

A record low 41 percent of Americans identify themselves as "pro-choice" on abortion, according to a poll released Wednesday, while the number of Americans who say they are "pro-life" bounced back into the majority.

The results from the Gallup Poll survey confirm a sharp turnaround in personal attitudes about abortion ...

U.S. attorney Fitzgerald leaving office

CHICAGO — Patrick J. Fitzgerald, known as one of the most relentless U.S. attorneys in the nation and the architect of convictions against two Illinois governors and a former vice-presidential aide, announced Wednesday that he is stepping down from the post he has held for more than a decade in ...

Police Set To Use Armed Drones Against Americans

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Infowars.com | CBS DC reports that the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office in Texas "is considering using rubber bullets and tear gas on its drone."

School officials fear a federal policy takeover

By expanding its "Race to the Top" education grant contest to the district level, the Obama administration has left some state education chiefs feeling elbowed out, saying Washington is trying to establish itself as the national school board.

"They're calling for the local leadership to report directly to the federal ...

Motorists likely to be paying for more tolls

Driving onto an interstate highway? Crossing a bridge on the way into work? Taking a tunnel under a river or bay? Get ready to pay.

With Congress unwilling to contemplate an increase in the federal gas tax, motorists are likely to be paying ever more tolls as governments at all ...

Out-of-state motorists find E-ZPass less than welcoming

Some tolling authorities have found a way to give local motorists a break on tolls - while charging out-of-towners a higher rate for using the same roads and bridges.

The E-ZPass electronic toll reading system used by 24 tolling agencies in 14 states in the Northeast and Midwest is able ...

Bambi's pals threaten Big Island

HONOLULU — Deer can swim, but not very far. When they showed up for the first time on the Big Island of Hawaii, mystified residents wondered how they got there.

The island is some 30 miles southeast of Maui, where deer are plentiful.

Hawaii wildlife authorities think someone dropped a ...

Thunder makes itself heard for changes in law

To get attention on Capitol Hill, Ted Shpak had to ditch the jacket and tie.

"I get more respect wearing jeans," said the 64-year-old Vietnam veteran and president of Rolling Thunder Washington, D.C., which this weekend will hold its 25th annual motorcycle rally to bring attention to American service members ...

Vets, supporters find solace, camaraderie in Rolling Thunder's roar

For Walt Koren, it would be easier to know that his old friend is dead. Instead, he's lived with uncertainty for 41 years. Whether William Patrick Millner, an Army Air Cavalry pilot in Vietnam and high school classmate of Mr. Koren's, survived a crash landing in Laos in 1971, and ...

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