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  • American Scene

    A former professor accused of killing three colleagues this year and her brother in 1986 won't be charged in an attempted mail-bombing in Massachusetts.


  • Jason Alexander might star in "The Sound of Melting."

    The List: New movie bad guys

    We've come up with a list of real problems for our movie heroes to battle against, along with some possible story lines.


  • Associated Press
Andy Stern, seen here in October 2009 while still president of the Service Employees International Union, is said to be the subject of an FBI corruption probe.

    SEIU's Stern calls reports of FBI probe 'simply false'

    The FBI and the Labor Department are investigating prominent labor leader Andy Stern in a probe of corruption at the Service Employees International Union, according to two people who have been interviewed by federal agents.


  • Report: US would make Internet wiretaps easier

    The Obama administration is pushing to make it easier for the government to tap into internet and e-mail communications. But the plan has already drawn condemnation from privacy groups and communications firms may be wary of its costs and scope.


  • Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine

    Justice IG: FBI cheated on test of rules

    Hundreds of FBI agents, including the head of the Washington field office and several supervisors, cheated on a mandatory test of new procedures employees must follow when conducting investigations of U.S. citizens — the Justice Department inspector general said in the second critical report handed down against the bureau in recent weeks.


  • Report says U.S. would make Internet wiretaps easier

    Broad new regulations being drafted by the Obama administration would make it easier for law-enforcement and national security officials to eavesdrop on Internet and e-mail communications like social networking websites and BlackBerrys, The New York Times reported Monday.


  • Illustration: Ahmadinejad by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

    DE BORCHGRAVE: Conspiracy supremacy

    No sooner did Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad suggest from the rostrum of the United Nations General Assembly that most of the world believes the U.S. government was involved in a Sept. 11, 2001, conspiracy than 32 nations followed the U.S. delegation as it walked out. These were members of NATO and/or the European Union (21 countries are members of both), Australia, New Zealand and Costa Rica. More important, 167 nations didn't budge and went on listening to the Iranian's incendiary speech.


  • This Sept. 23, 2010 picture shows Eric Deggans, St. Petersburg Times media critic, who maintains a blog entitled "The Feed" on the newspaper's website. "When there are forums about race, people flock there to do battle," said Deggans. Whenever he blogs about race, "about 20 percent of the comments will be straight-up racist. Another 20 percent are questionable." The racial comments and other personal attacks have made Deggans feel more defensive, as if he's always under attack: "It wears you down after a while." He said, "I have to constantly coach myself to dial down the hurt and the anger, because you get three comments that are really hurtful and prejudiced, but the fourth is someone who wants to have a genuine conversation."(AP Photo/St. Petersburg Times, Boyzell Hosey)  MANDATORY CREDIT: ST. PETERSBURG TIMES, BOYZELL HOSEY

    Racist messages pose quandary for mainstream sites

    Although you rarely hear racial insults on Main Street these days, there's a place where unashamed bigotry is all too easy to find: tossed off in the comments sections of some of the Internet's most popular websites, today's virtual Main Street.


  • Authorities surround a Bank of America where a robbery may have turned into a hostage situation in Coral Gables, Fla. on Friday, Sept. 24, 2010. Coral Gables police were called to the bank near the University of Miami. The university sent an alert to students warning them to stay away from the area near the bank. Administrators reported the incident as a hostage situation. (AP Photo/Edouard H.R. Gluck)

    Fla. bank robbers strap bomb to abducted teller

    A bank teller was kidnapped early Friday from his home by robbers who strapped a suspected bomb to his chest and used him to steal money from a Bank of America branch near the University of Miami, according to the FBI.


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