Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) has posted disparaging material about Texas DA Ronnie Earle and his case against DeLay on his congressional campaign website. The website, funded by DeLay’s re-election committee and not associated officially with the House, currently accuses Earle of political maneuvering and abuse of his office. Although legal experts say [...]

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US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas issued a temporary stay late Friday blocking a lower federal court order allowing prison officials in Missouri to transport a pregnant inmate to a medical facility for an abortion. A Missouri law prohibits the use of public funds "for the purpose of performing or assisting an abortion not necessary [...]

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White House Deputy Chief of Staff and top advisor Karl Rove testified for a fourth and final time Friday before a grand jury investigating the leak of the identity of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame to the media in 2003. Rove emerged from the courthouse without comment, but sources close to the investigation indicate that [...]

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Polls closed in Iraq at 5PM local time (10 AM ET) Saturday after a day of voting in the country's constitutional referendum marked by relatively little violence and a higher Sunni turnout than was seen in January's parliamentary elections. Insurgents attacked several of the more than 6100 heavily-guarded polling stations causing some casualities, but nowhere [...]

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