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Fred Attewill and agencies Wednesday May 23, 2007 Guardian Unlimited The ruling condemned government tactics preventing islanders from returning as unlawful and an abuse of power. Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA Families who were expelled from the Chagos...

Tom Uhlman for The New York Times A dinosaur in Eden at a museum opening in Petersburg, Ky. More Photos > By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN Published: May 24, 2007 PETERSBURG, Ky. — The entrance gates here are topped with metallic Stegosauruses. The grounds include...

Wiretapping testimony hardly covered 5/22/07 The revelations coming from a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week were startling. On May 15, former Deputy Attorney General James Comey testified about the Bush administration's extraordinary efforts...

By PHILIP ELLIOTT The Associated Press Monday, May 21, 2007; 7:31 PM KEENE, N.H. -- Presidential hopeful John Edwards said Monday that Americans should speak out against the war in Iraq this Memorial Day weekend, renewing an anti-war call that has been...

Ruby Washington/The New York Times In 1996, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York, appointed Jerome M. Hauer, left, to lead the Office of Emergency Management. Mr. Hauer was part of Mr. Giuliani’s inner circle but they have since parted ways. By RUSS...

How touchy is the Bush administration about criticism? Very touchy, indeed, especially if the source of that criticism is a certain former president. When Jimmy Carter, whose approval ratings dwarf those of George Bush these days, gets to talking about...

By Greg Gordon McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON - During four years as a Justice Department civil rights lawyer, Hans von Spakovsky went so far in a crusade against voter fraud as to warn of its dangers under a pseudonym in a law journal article. Writing...

No other big state spends as much to incarcerate compared with higher education funding As the costs for fixing the state's troubled corrections system rocket higher, California is headed for a dubious milestone -- for the first time the state will spend...

Recent works by the secretary of defense. By Hart Seely Posted Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 1:03 PM ET Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is an accomplished man. Not only is he guiding the war in Iraq, he has been a pilot, a congressman, an ambassador,...

by Paul Taylor, Executive Vice President, Pew Research Center May 17, 2007 When the late Rev. Jerry Falwell disbanded the Moral Majority in 1989, a decade after he had founded the grass-roots evangelical Christian lobbying and political action movement,...