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Court won't block US lawsuit by apartheid victims
Associated Press WriterThe Supreme Court said Monday that it can't intervene in an important dispute over the rights of apartheid victims to sue U.S. corporations in U.S. courts because four of the nine justices had to sit out the case over apparent conflicts. The result is...Tags: International Law, Banking, Prosecution, Trials, Court Administration
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Powerful Earthquake Strikes China
The Associated PressA massive earthquake struck central China on Monday, killing more than 7,600 people and trapping nearly 900 students under the rubble of their school, state media reported. The official Xinhua News Agency said 80 percent of the buildings had collapsed in...Tags: Earthquakes, Multi-Sport Events, Disasters, Industrial Accidents, Road Transportation
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Court rules that magistrate may preside
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a federal magistrate may preside over jury selection in criminal cases, as long as the attorney for a defendant explicitly permits it. The 8-1 decision came in a drug-trafficking case from Laredo, Texas, where a lawyer...Tags: Trials, Lawyers, Defendants, Judges, Prosecution
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Supreme Court to meet to issue opinions
The Supreme Court is meeting to issue opinions and announce whether it has accepted any new cases. Major cases the justices will decide between now and late June include the rights of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, the ban on handguns in Washington, D.C.,...Tags: Death Penalty
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Extreme Commuter: From Maybrook to Midtown
mnaanes@am-ny.comJennifer Rodriguez often has to cut her nighttime activities short to catch the last bus to her upstate New York home, a two-hour ride that gets her in well after midnight. Rodriguez, 26, editor in chief for Latino University magazine, has left movies...Tags: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
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Pander alert
The State Senate is preparing to vote today on a Trojan Horse of a bill that would freeze retirement health benefits for all New York public employees. Senators are playing innocent about the true effects of this bill, claiming that it simply authorizes a...Tags: Employees, People, Retirement, Public Employees, Unions
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Time for rescue
It's time for President Bush and Republicans in the Senate to stop playing politics and agree to support a plan to help rescue hundreds of thousands of families, including Marylanders, who are in danger of losing their homes to foreclosure. Mr. Bush has...Tags: State Budgets, Foreclosures, Financial and Business Services, Mortgages, Public Finance
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Food is politics in Myanmar
THE NEW YORK TIMESWhen one of Myanmar's best-known movie stars, Kyaw Dhyu, traveled through the Irrawaddy Delta in recent days to deliver aid to the victims of the May 3 cyclone, a military patrol stopped him as he was handing out bags of rice. "The officer told him, 'You...Tags: Disasters, Weather Reports, Emergency Incidents, Coup d'Etat, Foreign Aid
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Schumer urges West Side building
Sen. Charles Schumer is calling for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to oversee a new building boom around Pennsylvania Station on Manhattan's West Side. The New York Democrat told Crain's NY Business Forum on Monday that the economic...Tags: Madison Square Garden, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
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