Chief Justice John Roberts urged the Senate in his annual year-end report Friday to move swiftly in filling vacant federal judgeships, calling it a “persistent problem” requiring urgent attention.
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Chief justice urges action on vacancies
In the race for earmarks, politics often trumps economic need, council members say. Council leaders and those who curry favor consistently win the largest share of the pot.
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Council Grants Often Shortchange Needy New York Districts
Religious leaders warned the government against amending or repealing a law that has been used since the 1980s to persecute minorities.
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Pakistanis Rally in Support of Blasphemy Law Seen as Harmful to Christians
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. called on President Obama and the Senate on Friday to solve what he called “the persistent problem of judicial vacancies.”
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Roberts Urges Obama and Senate to Fill Judicial Posts
Dilma Rousseff’s challenge is to continue the economic gains made by the man she succeeds, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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Brazilian Leader Begins in Shadow of Lula
An explosion at a bar near a barracks in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, kills a number of people as they celebrate New Year’s Eve.
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Nigeria hit by new year ‘bomb’
A study surveying jobless workers over 15 months found nearly 70 percent of those entering new careers had to take a cut in pay.
Tornadoes fueled by unusually warm air pummeled the South and Midwest on Friday, killing at least six people and injuring dozens more across Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois. Forecasters said storms could hit along a stretch from near Chicago to New Orleans later in the evening as New Year’s Eve celebrations begin.
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New Year’s Eve Tornadoes Kill 6 in Ark., Mo.
Heading into a new election cycle, Sarah Palin faces challenges on the road to winning the G.O.P. nomination.
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FiveThirtyEight: Sarah Palin’s Nomination Chances: A Reassessment
What a way to ring in the new year: A five-hour hostage situation in a Texas bank has come to an end, with all the hostages released and the two robbers arrested. The masked thieves took the hostages around 11:30 a.m., after they saw a police officer…
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Bank Robber Releases Hostages in Texas
Joe Miller knows when it’s time to walk away: After a hand-count finds you behind, the state Supreme Court agrees, a federal judge refuses to second-guess the state, and your opponent is officially declared the winner. Miller, a Tea Party favorite who…
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Joe Miller Concedes in Alaska
Packed in the president’s suitcase were a historical romance set in Edo-era Japan and the latest spy novel by John LeCarre.
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The Caucus: Obama’s Vacation Reading List
Which of North Korea’s New Year’s resolutions is not like the others: Work toward a nuclear-free Korean peninsula, improve ties with South Korea, and refine its spirit with “prompt, merciless and annihilatory action.” North Korea’s New Year’s message,…
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N. Korea Vows to Improve Ties with South
It was a mellow end to a tumultuous but positive year for the stock market. The Dow Jones rose slightly, .07 percent, to end 11 percent higher than at the beginning of 2010. Had it closed just a little bit higher, it would have ended 2010 at the…
In his annual year-end report, Chief Justice John Roberts implored that President Obama and the Senate move on the president’s judicial nominees. “Each political party has found it easy to turn on a dime from decrying to defending the blocking of…
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Chief Justice Roberts New Year’s Plea
Pakistanis Rally in Support of Blasphemy Law Seen as Harmful to Christians
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