Nation & World

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June 29, 2012

Justices: Lies on being military hero can’t be a crime

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a federal law that makes it a crime to lie about being a military hero. In fact, the justices ruled that many lies are protected by the First Amendment. The 6-3 ruling came in a case involving Xavier Alvarez, a former local elected official who at […]
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June 29, 2012

Nation Dispatches

SALEM, Ore. State starts hotline to report washed-up tsunami debris Oregon is creating an easy way to report Japanese tsunami debris that washes up on the Pacific coast. The state is asking residents and visitors to call 211 to report their findings, Gov. John Kitzhaber announced Thursday. Beginning today, the hotline will be staffed during […]
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June 29, 2012

House votes AG Holder in contempt

A walkout led by African-American lawmakers had more than 100 Democrats boycotting the vote.
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June 29, 2012

Don Grady dies at 68, played Robbie on ‘My Three Sons’

Grady, who was a Mouseketeer and later a songwriter, dies of cancer at home in California.
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June 29, 2012

Health Care Dispatches

CNN, Fox first got it wrong NEW YORK – A rush to quickly report the Supreme Court’s decision on President Obama’s health care law Thursday tripped up some news organizations that got it wrong and had to quickly correct themselves. Both CNN and Fox News Channel initially reported incorrectly that the law’s central provision, requiring […]

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June 29, 2012

Roberts emerged as surprise

The chief justice threads a legal needle, establishing his legacy on the court as an independent thinker.
Published
June 29, 2012

MAINE IMPACT: For passionately divided state, court decision has far-reaching implications that will be felt almost immediately

– By JOHN RICHARDSON Staff Writer Maine was one of 26 states to challenge the Obama administration’s health care reform law all the way to the Supreme Court. But Mainers are just as passionately divided about the Affordable Care Act as other Americans. As news of the historic decision swept through the state Thursday, it […]
Published
June 28, 2012

House votes to hold Attorney General Holder in contempt

The 255-67 vote marks the first time in American history that the head of the Justice Department has been held in contempt by Congress.
Published
June 28, 2012

Supreme Court upholds key part of Obama health care law

The decision means the huge overhaul, still only partly in effect, will proceed and pick up momentum over the next several years,
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June 28, 2012

Ex-IRA leader, queen officially bury the hatchet

LONDON – In a meeting symbolizing the end of years of enmity between British rule and Northern Ireland republicans, Queen Elizabeth II shook hands Wednesday with a former Irish Republican Army commander. Martin McGuinness, now a deputy first minister of Northern Ireland and a member of the pro-republican Sinn Fein party, was a senior IRA […]