GOP Senators: No hearing, no vote for Obama Court pick
By ANDREW TAYLOR and MARY CLARE JALONICK President Barack Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court won’t get a hearing or a vote from the Republican-led Senate, GOP members of the…
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Last of ‘Angola Three’ inmates released, thanks supporters
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and KEVIN McGILL The last inmate of a group known as the “Angola Three” pleaded no contest Friday to manslaughter in the 1972 death of a prison…
US fight over gunman’s locked iPhone could have big impact
By ERIC TUCKER and TAMI ABDOLLAH A U.S. magistrate’s order for Apple Inc. to help the FBI hack into an iPhone used by the gunman in the mass shooting in…
Senate GOP to Obama: Don’t bother nominating to Court
By DONNA CASSATA Senate Republicans united behind Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in insisting that President Barack Obama’s successor fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by Justice Antonin Scalia’s death. Democrats…
Supreme Court vacancy is tangible test for 2016 candidates
By JULIE PACE The presidential election just got real. The unexpected death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia — and the immediate declaration from Republicans that the next president should…
Palestinian eviction case spotlights Jerusalem settler push
By KARIN LAUB and MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH Ahmad Sub-Laban’s family has lived for decades under threat of eviction from their home overlooking the gold-topped Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem’s Old…
Justices review DA’s choice of all-white murder trial jury
By MARK SHERMAN and KATE BRUMBACK Prosecutor Stephen Lanier’s meaning was unmistakable when he urged jurors in north Georgia to sentence the defendant to death in part to deter other…
Ex-head of Chicago schools pleads guilty in kickbacks scheme
By MICHAEL TARM The former head of Chicago Public Schools pleaded guilty Tuesday to a fraud charge in an alleged scheme to steer $23 million in no-bid contracts to education…