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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In 1950, 12 days after the start of the Korean War, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover had a plan "to apprehend and detain persons who are potentially dangerous to the internal security of the country" -- thousands of them, almost all American...

· Outbreak of Korean war brought letter to Truman · List of potential detainees compiled over many years Dan Glaister in Los Angeles Monday December 24, 2007 The Guardian It all sounds familiar. A newly proclaimed war in a far-off land, the suspension...

Andrew Sullivan Almost all of the time, the Washington I know and live in is utterly unrelated to the Washington you see in the movies. The government is far more incompetent and amateur than the masterminds of Hollywood darkness. There are no rogue CIA...

BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) - Art Conrad has an issue with the commercialism of Christmas, and his protest has gone way beyond just shunning the malls or turning off his television. The Bremerton resident nailed Santa Claus to a 15-foot crucifix in front of...

[boldface added par harvey] GLENDALE, California (AP) -- A 17-year-old died just hours after her health insurance company reversed its decision not to pay for a liver transplant that doctors said the girl needed. Nataline Sarkisyan died Thursday night...

(CNN) -- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to sue the federal government over its decision not to allow a California plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, he announced Thursday. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says Thursday the state...

By Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has said he watched his father, the late Michigan governor George Romney, in a 1960s civil rights march in Michigan with Martin Luther King Jr. On Wednesday, Romney's campaign...

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) -- Police used chemical spray and stun guns Thursday as dozens of protesters seeking to halt the demolition of 4,500 public housing units tried to force their way through an iron gate at City Hall. Protesters scuffle with police...

Migrant workers chained beaten and forced into debt, exposing the human cost of producing cheap food By Leonard Doyle in Immokalee, Floride Published: 19 December 2007 Three Florida fruit-pickers, held captive and brutalised by their employer for more...

Enlarge By Mel Evans, AP Police officers subdue a man later identified as Robert Davis in the French Quarter of New Orleans on Oct. 8, 2005. A former police officer accused in the videotaped beating was acquitted last July by a judge who heard the case...