SPOTLIGHT ON CORRUPTION AT ILLINOIS SENTENCING
By MICHAEL TARM Former Cook County Commissioner William Beavers speaks at a news conference after being sentenced on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013, in a Chicago federal courtroom. Beavers, 78, was…
Judiciary
SCALIA EXPECTS NSA WIRETAPS TO END UP IN COURT
By MATTHEW BARAKAT Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia makes gestures as he speaks at the Northern Virginia Technology Council’s (NVTC) Titans breakfast gathering in McLean, Va., Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013.…
CRUZ, LEE PLAN ON ‘OBAMACARE’ UNNERVES SOME IN GOP
By DONNA CASSATA FILE – In this July 24, 2013 file photo, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Cruz says he will fight “with every breath”…
BANGLADESH OPPOSITION PROTESTS WAR CRIMES VERDICT
By JULHAS ALAM Bangladeshi social activists shout slogans during a rally against a strike called by Bangladesh’s largest Islamic party, Jamaat-e-Islami, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013. The Jamaat-e-Islami…
ARGENTINA APPROVES NEW SOVEREIGN DEBT SWAP
FILE – In this March 1, 2013 file photo, lawmakers attend the inauguration of the new legislative session at Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Argentina’s Congress approved a plan late…
SYRIAN REBELS BLAST RUSSIAN OFFER ON CHEMICAL ARMS
By BASSEM MROUE In this Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013 photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a Syrian government solider aims his weapon during clashes with Free Syrian…
HAVES AND HAVE-NOTS AS HEALTH CARE MARKETS OPEN
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR FILE – In this March 23, 2010 file photo, Marcelas Owens of Seattle, left, Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., right, and others, look on as President Barack Obama…
TRIAL STARTS FOR KENYA DEPUTY PRESIDENT RUTO
By MIKE CORDER Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto, right, awaits the start of his trial in the courtroom of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, Sept.…