Expert: Recent Attacks On Justice Community 'Really Unprecedented'
Two county prosecutors fatally shot in Texas. Colorado's top prison official gunned down. And a dozen more members of the U.S.
View ArticleGun Control Prospects Recede As Politics Swamp Momentum
President Obama's campaign for new federal gun control laws takes him to Colorado on Wednesday, and next week back to Connecticut, where the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre renewed the nation's...
View ArticleImmigration Overhaul 'Feels Unstoppable Now,' Backers Say
Thousands of supporters will descend on the U.S.
View ArticleHoward Students Question Rand Paul's Vision Of GOP
Rand Paul going to one of the top historically black colleges in the U.S. and trying to school students on who founded the NAACP?Priceless.Rand Paul going to one of the top historically black colleges...
View ArticleSecurity Expert: Investigators Seeking Bomber's 'Signature'
As investigators combed through evidence in the deadly Boston Marathon bombings, seeking both motive and perpetrator, we turned Tuesday to a security expert for guidance on how the investigation may be...
View ArticleBipartisan Senate Gang Begins To Sell Immigration Plan
Bipartisan bonhomie broke out Thursday afternoon when four Democratic and four Republican senators made a case for their comprehensive immigration overhaul proposal.The scene at the Dirksen Senate...
View ArticleBoston Bombing Suspects Are Brothers Living In U.S. For Years
Updated 1:50 p.m. ET: (Correcting that brothers shared an apartment in Cambridge, not Watertown.)The suspects in Monday's deadly Boston Marathon explosions and the Thursday night murder of a police...
View ArticleTragedy In Real Time: Living A Terrible Week, Vicariously
We have imagined ourselves searching like Kelly Manning for loved ones after the explosions on Boylston Street.We have pictured ourselves huddling in the basement like Beth and Paul Robinson and their...
View ArticleBush Sees Approval Hike, But Trumanesque Recovery? Unlikely
A poll released days before the opening of George W.
View ArticleThe Meaning of Boston: Depends On Your Angle, Literally
The opportunistic political sentiment of never letting a crisis go to waste (see: Rahm Emanuel, among others) has been reframed since the Boston bombings by those seizing on the attack as certain...
View ArticlePersonality Or Party? Mass. Senate Race Shows Value Of Both
When Democratic Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts was tapped to replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, his state — and national — party bosses were wringing their hands.Why? The prospect of...
View ArticleBulletproof Whiteboards And The Marketing Of School Safety
A recent news item out of Minnesota caught our eye: "Bulletproof Whiteboards Unveiled at Rocori Schools."Bulletproof what? Where?That would be whiteboards, at the small central Minnesota Rocori School...
View ArticleJoy, And New Hope, For All Families Of The Missing
Parents in a networking group for missing children were at a strategy dinner Monday night, discussing the terrors of Internet exploitation and the need for better communication with law enforcement,...
View ArticlePoll: Obama Approval Up, Effectiveness Down; GOP In Doldrums
President Obama's job approval has inched up in recent weeks, but the percentage of Americans who say they believe he is effective has taken a hit, according to a Pew Research Center survey released...
View ArticleOn Military Sexual Assault Issue, A New Era for An Old Committee
Other bipartisan efforts on Capitol Hill may be collapsing around them, but a cadre of Democratic and Republican women serving on the Senate and House Armed Services committees are leveraging their...
View ArticleWhen The Missing Return, Recovery Is Long, Too
They call themselves "Rooters," and they convene in a private online place they call the "RooterHood."There, they can talk freely and frankly about what it was like to be kidnapped, to be stripped of...
View ArticleTesla Rides High, But Faces Formidable Foe: Car Dealers
Tesla Motors, the American maker of luxury electric cars, has been riding a wave of good publicity.Its Model S sedan (base priced at $62,400, after federal tax credits) was just named Motor Trend Car...
View ArticleOklahoma's GOP Senators Find Themselves In Tornado Aid Bind
Even as President Obama was declaring that tornado-devastated Oklahoma would get "everything it needs right away," the state's most vociferous critic of federal emergency aid vowed that he, too, would...
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