After causing delays that have stalled a racial discrimination case for years, the Secret Service could be hit with a “default” judgment at a U.S. District Court hearing today in favor of the black agents who brought the suit.
May 2008
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Thu 29 May 2008
Delays in Case of Race Bias Could Cost Secret Service
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Thu 29 May 2008
U.S. Experts Bemoan Nation’s Loss of Stature in the World of Science
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NEW YORK, May 28 — Some of the nation’s leading scientists, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s top science adviser, today sharply criticized the diminished role of science in the United States and the shortage of federal funding for research, even as science becomes increasingly…
Thu 29 May 2008
Driver Who Killed 8 in Race Crowd Faces an Unrelated Charge
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The Waldorf man who plowed his car into a crowd at an illegal street race three months ago in Prince George’s County, killing eight people, was arrested last week on an unrelated charge of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.
Thu 29 May 2008
Global warming is already affecting the nation’s forests, water resources, farmland and wildlife, and will have serious negative consequences over the next 25 to 50 years, according to a report issued yesterday by the federal government.
Thu 29 May 2008
Colo., W.Va. gamblers could be nabbed for child support (AP)
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AP - Deadbeat parents, listen up: Win big at the casino tables in West Virginia or Colorado, and your kids might win, too.
Thu 29 May 2008
AP - Condos and a gondola have replaced giant smokestacks and piles of mine waste that used to greet visitors in this northern Idaho town as it turned to the ski industry for survival.
Thu 29 May 2008
AP - Gay rights advocates had reason to celebrate on both coasts Thursday, with New York set to recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere and California preparing to begin issuing marriage licenses to gay couples on June 17.
Thu 29 May 2008
In Miami, Spanish is becoming the primary language (AP)
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AP - Melissa Green’s mother spoke Spanish, but she never learned her father forbid it. Today, that’s a frequent problem in this city where the English-speaking population is outnumbered.
Thu 29 May 2008
LONDON — After Linda Davies reported to police that her 15-year-old daughter had been raped, it took three months — plus two dozen phone calls and a threat of legal action — before police questioned the suspect, a 28-year-old neighbor.
Thu 29 May 2008
The Bush administration is pressing U.N. inspectors to broaden their search for possible secret nuclear facilities in Syria, hinting that Damascus’s nuclear program might be bigger than the single alleged reactor destroyed by Israeli warplanes last year.