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An activist with an ability to match the right plaintiff with the right legal challenge has launched two landmark Supreme Court cases that will be decided this month, and verdicts in each could create legal "earthquakes," experts say.Edward Blum (whose last name is pronounced "Bloom") is not an attorney. He's a former stockbroker who now runs the Project on Fair Representation, a non-profit legal ...
A Southwest Airlines flight carrying 143 passengers from Los Angeles to Austin, Texas, was diverted and forced to land in Phoenix on Monday evening after a bomb threat was phoned in, officials said.While the plane was in the air, U.S. F-16 fighter jets were sent to monitor the situation, Michael Kucharek, a spokesman for the joint U.S.-Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), tol...
While cities like New York, Los Angeles and Phoenix champion gun buyback events and programs, a gun giveaway group, called The Armed Citizen Project, has launched in Houston.The founder of the nonprofit organization, Kyle Coplen, 29, said he had a few reasons behind his idea to arm "residents in high crime areas" and especially single mothers with a free pump-action shotgun and training.He said hi...
A group of women escaped serious harm Sunday morning after a limousine they were planning to ride to a birthday party burst into flames while it idled in a driveway at a Northern California retirement community, police said.The blaze in Walnut Creek, Calif., happened a month after five women en route to a bridal party were killed while trapped in a flame-engulfed limousine on the San Mateo-Hayward...
WASHINGTON — A petition to pardon Edward Snowden, who has acknowledged leaking secret documents from the U.S. National Security Agency, attracted more than 22,000 electronic signatures by Monday afternoon, one day after it was posted on the White House website."Edward Snowden is a national hero and should be immediately issued a full, free and absolute pardon for any crimes he has committed or may...
