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 LA Times: National
Arizona immigration protesters hit the streets
Dozens are arrested during a march in Phoenix as Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio plans raids of immigrant neighborhoods. Meanwhile, the state appeals an injunction against key parts of the new law.
Hundreds of marchers protesting Arizona's hard-line stance against illegal immigration took to the streets Thursday even as the local sheriff launched raids to arrest illegal migrants — vivid signs that th...
30 Jul 2010 at 2:00am
Supreme Court leery of broad challenges to yet-to-take-effect state laws
Some experts say the tack of the judge who blocked parts of the Arizona law leaves her ruling vulnerable to reversal on appeal. But it may stand if the high court follows precedent on immigration.
The Supreme Court, where the legal controversy over Arizona's immigration law is likely to be resolved, has taken a dim view in recent years of judges striking down state laws based on broad challenges to law...
29 Jul 2010 at 8:19pm
Oil spill waste raises concerns in the gulf
BP has hauled more than 35,000 tons of solid waste to regional landfills. But one Mississippi county, worried about safety, has stopped it.
Even though BP's busted well has stopped spewing oil, the disaster is still generating tons of soiled boom and other oily waste that federal and state laws allow to be buried at specially designated dumps, some near residential neighborhoods.
30 Jul 2010 at 2:00am
A final fix to gulf oil leak may be at hand
The 'static kill' operation to plug the well for good could begin as early as Sunday. One expert puts its chances of success at 'close to 100%.'
For more than three months, the world has waited for a permanent fix to the BP oil leak. It may not have to wait much longer.
30 Jul 2010 at 2:00am
Fired USDA official sees fresh chance to discuss race
Shirley Sherrod tells black journalists that the 'suffering' she's endured is only a start to the conversation. 'It's not about me. It's about us and all we have to accomplish.'
Shirley Sherrod, the African American federal Agriculture Department official who was forced out of her job after a conservative blogger posted a heavily edited video of a speech she had made, said Thursday that she believed her...
30 Jul 2010 at 2:00am
A man way, way outside Beltway
Alvin Greene, a Democratic jobless veteran who won the Senate primary in South Carolina, could be an inspiring success story, but the (grand) jury is still out.
The aspiring Democratic U.S. senator from South Carolina is a bumbling speaker. He's been accused of showing porn to a teenage college student, a felony. He's never heard of the pollution control strategy called "cap and trade." And when asked w...
29 Jul 2010 at 11:25pm
Arizona sheriff launches 17th immigration sweep
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he timed it for the day SB 1070 takes effect to send a message: that nothing is changing despite a court ruling on the law.
With most of Arizona's new immigration law blocked by a judge, controversial Sheriff Joe Arpaio launched his 17th "crime suppression" sweep in Maricopa County, pledging late Thursday afternoon to have his deputies and volunteers check the imm...
30 Jul 2010 at 2:00am
Southern cities vie to be center of oil-spill legal cases
Attorneys for spill victims hope to persuade a panel of judges to hear the cases in the area where their clients live. BP is lobbying for Houston.
Like city boosters competing to host the Olympics, hundreds of lawyers representing gulf oil spill victims converged on this mountain town Thursday, promoting their Southern cities as the best equipped and the most convenient venue to handle about 300 lawsuit...
29 Jul 2010 at 8:21pm
Rangel charged with 13 ethics violations
A settlement appears unlikely at this point, and a trial could come as early as September, creating a headache for Democrats before the midterm election.
A House panel on Thursday accused New York Rep. Charles B. Rangel of 13 ethics violations, placing his storied 40-year political career in jeopardy and guaranteeing Democrats an election-year headache.
30 Jul 2010 at 2:00am
Thousands of Arlington graves may have been mishandled
A Senate report shows that 4,900 to 6,600 graves among the 330,000 at the national cemetery for veterans and others may be unmarked, improperly marked or mislabeled on cemetery maps.
The estimate of possibly mishandled graves at Arlington National Cemetery soared into the thousands Thursday, and ousted cemetery officials conceded that they knew about problems at least five years ago.
29 Jul 2010 at 8:21pm
BBC: Americas
FBI to aid Afghan war leak probe
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates calls in the FBI to help investigate the leaking of 90,000 classified papers related to the Afghan war.
29 Jul 2010 at 8:02pm
US closes its consulate in Juarez
The US consulate in the border city of Ciudad Juarez has been closed indefinitely while a security review is carried out.
29 Jul 2010 at 11:59pm
Arizona takes law fight to appeal
Arizona lodges an appeal against a federal court's decision to block parts of an anti-immigration law hours before it came into effect.
29 Jul 2010 at 8:27pm
US seizes marijuana worth $1.7bn
Police in California seize $1.7bn worth of marijuana in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
29 Jul 2010 at 6:03pm
US military graves 'mislabelled'
As many as 6,600 graves at Arlington National Cemetery were mislabelled or unmarked because of incompetence among managers, a US senator says.
29 Jul 2010 at 11:39am
Canada jails Iran nuclear suspect
The Ontario Court of Justice in Canada sentences a Toronto man to four years in prison for trying to export nuclear-related items to Iran.
29 Jul 2010 at 10:15pm
'Killer' bear caught in Montana
Wildlife authorities capture a 400lb (181kg) mother grizzly bear and two cubs who they believe killed one camper and injured two.
29 Jul 2010 at 9:08pm
Citigroup agrees $75m fraud fine
Banking giant Citigroup agrees to pay $75m to settle civil charges that it misled investors over potential losses from subprime mortgages.
29 Jul 2010 at 3:59pm
Toyota announces fresh car recall
Toyota is recalling almost 430,000 vehicles in the US and Japan amid concern over steering problems.
29 Jul 2010 at 12:11pm
Jailed Enron boss requests bail
The former chief executive of Enron, Jeffrey Skilling, has applied for bail. His lawyer says his conviction for fraud will be overturned.
29 Jul 2010 at 1:30pm
Reuters US
Four killed in Air Force plane crash in Alaska
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - All four crew members were killed in a U.S. Air Force cargo plane that crashed in flames while practicing for an aviation show at Elmendorf Air Force Base, the Air Force said Thursday.
29 Jul 2010 at 7:50pm
Madoff trustee sues family entities
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The trustee liquidating Bernard Madoff's investment firm late on Thursday filed three lawsuits against entities affiliated with family members of the imprisoned swindler, accusing them of taking nearly $200 million of investor cash to fund "lavish lifestyles."
29 Jul 2010 at 7:50pm
California pot sweep linked to Mexican drug cartels
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California authorities said on Thursday they have made dozens of arrests and destroyed marijuana plants worth billions of dollars on farms that officials said are controlled by Mexican drug traffickers.
29 Jul 2010 at 8:21pm
U.S. closes consulate in Mexico's Ciudad Juarez
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The U.S. government has shut indefinitely its consulate in Mexico's most violent drug war city Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas, to evaluate security conditions.
29 Jul 2010 at 10:45pm
Arizona appeals immigrant law ruling amid protests
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona on Thursday appealed a judge's decision to block key parts of the state's crackdown on illegal immigrants and police in Phoenix arrested scores of activists protesting the remaining measures in the law.
29 Jul 2010 at 9:09pm
Special Report: A Mississippi Yankee in BP's battered court
HATTIESBURG, Miss./CHICAGO (Reuters) - Bob Dudley is not one to wear his disappointment on his sleeve.
29 Jul 2010 at 4:11pm
Brownsville, the 'hood that New York left behind
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Josephine Spearman alternately fought back tears and grew defiant with anger when discussing the murder of her son, one of 11 shootings in 15 days recently that have made the neighborhood of Brownsville, Brooklyn, one of the most dangerous in the United States.
30 Jul 2010 at 12:17am
NY subpoenas MetLife, Pru on soldier death benefits
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's attorney general has subpoenaed MetLife Inc and Prudential Financial Inc as part of a probe into whether life insurers are defrauding families of deceased military personnel by siphoning off millions of dollars of death benefits for themselves.
29 Jul 2010 at 6:26pm
EPA says Michigan spill appears contained
DETROIT (Reuters) - Oil spilled from a pipeline in Michigan does not present a threat to the Great Lakes and the spill has been contained on a river about 50 miles inland from Lake Michigan, federal officials said on Thursday.
29 Jul 2010 at 5:58pm
Dead whale found pinned to Alaska cruise ship
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A dead whale was discovered pinned to the bow of a Princess Cruises luxury liner near Juneau, the third such incident involving the company's Alaska fleet in a decade, officials said on Thursday.
30 Jul 2010 at 1:55am
Chicago Tribune
Wildfire explodes in rural Los Angeles County hills, forcing hundreds to evac...
PALMDALE, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters plan an aggressive air attack at first light Friday against a fast-moving wildfire that exploded in northern Los Angeles County, chewing through more than 7 square miles of dry brush, forcing hundreds of evacuations and burning at least three structures.
30 Jul 2010 at 4:23am
3 US troops die, bringing July toll to at least 63 for US in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Three U.S. service members were killed in blasts in Afghanistan, bringing the toll for July to at least 63 and making it the deadliest month for American forces in the nearly 9-year-war.
30 Jul 2010 at 4:12am
Supreme Court Likely To Decide Arizona Immigration Fight
Washington….The Supreme Court, where the legal controversy over Arizona's immigration law is likely to be decided, has taken a dim view in recent years of judges striking down state laws based on broad challenges like the one an Arizona federal judge sided with Wednesday.
29 Jul 2010 at 5:23pm
As aid bill for sick 9/11 responders fails, court settlement may be workers' ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill that would have provided up to $7.4 billion in aid to people sickened by World Trade Center dust fell short in the House on Thursday, raising the possibility that the bulk of compensation for the ill will come from a legal settlement hammered out in the federal courts.
30 Jul 2010 at 2:18am
House charges Rep. Charles Rangel with ethics violations
A House panel outlines 13 counts against the New York Democratic lawmaker, whose political career spans 40 years.
Rep. Charles Rangel of New York was charged Thursday with 13 counts of violating House ethics rules, placing the Democrat's storied, 40-year political career in jeopardy.
30 Jul 2010 at 12:00am
Four Dead in Alaskan Plane Crash
(Photo Credit: Erik Hill, Anchorage Daily News)
Four airmen are dead after a fiery C-17 crash at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alsaka.
29 Jul 2010 at 12:10am
Ousted USDA employee Shirley Sherrod says she will sue conservative blogger o...
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she will sue a conservative blogger who posted a video edited in a way that made her appear racist.
29 Jul 2010 at 10:18pm
Possibly Thousands Of Mishandled Arlington Graves
Washington…The estimate of possibly mishandled graves at Arlington National Cemetery soared into the thousands Thursday, and ousted cemetery officials conceded that they knew about problems at least five years ago.
29 Jul 2010 at 4:48pm
For Clintons' understated only daughter, $3 million is enough to get married ...
RHINEBECK, N.Y. (AP) — Imagine spending $250,000 on flowers. Or $20,000 on a cake. How does $15,000 to $20,000 for toilets sound?
29 Jul 2010 at 8:55pm
Obama chats on 'The View,' blames media for 'phony controversy' over Ag worke...
NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama said Thursday that the racial firestorm that led to the ouster of a black Agriculture Department official was a "phony controversy" generated by the media. He said his administration overreacted by forcing her out.
29 Jul 2010 at 10:00am
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