 01/13/10 SACRAMENTO - History was made Tuesday after the California Assembly s Public Safety Committee passed a marijuana legalization and taxation bill in a 4-3 vote, with the headed to the health committee next.
 12/17/09 On the eve of President Obama's appearance at the U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen, congressional Republicans said they would file a resolution aimed at overturning an EPA finding that underpins the administration's pledge to cut U.S. carbon emissions.
 11/30/09 An anti-fraud law used in recent high-profile cases faces a trial of sorts itself before the Supreme Court.
 11/30/09 Much has been made lately about naming the decade bookended by 9/11 and financial collapse/continuing wars. "The Noughts," "The Oughts," "The Decade from Hell"? Whatever...
 11/04/09 BAGHDAD -- Despite major bombings that have rattled the nation, and fears of rising violence as American troops withdraw, Iraq's security forces have been relying on a device to detect bombs and weapons that the United States military and technical experts say is useless.
 11/04/09 Conservative MPs, with the support of a few Liberals and New Democrats, have voted in principle to kill the contentious federal long gun registry.
 11/03/09 Iraqi security forces at hundreds of checkpoints have been relying on a small hand-held wand that United States experts say is useless.
 10/15/09 The Cowboys won the game Sunday, but for some, that wasn't quite enough. Read the transcript from our writers' in-game chat.
 10/03/09 These are boom times for conservative authors, and Sarah Palin may top them all.
 09/28/09 Sept. 13: A 14-year-old Palmer girl was issued a summons for underage drinking. Sept. 19: Michael David Howes, 19, Jeremy Ra Jordan and a 16-year-old boy, all of Palmer, were issued summonses for underage drinking.
 09/11/09 The Conservative minority government could fall as early as next week, triggering the second election in a year, according to reports.
08/19/09 Something strange has happened in the United States in the nine months since Barack Obama was elected. It has best been summarised by the comedian Bill Maher: "The Democrats have moved to the right, and the Republicans have moved to a mental hospital."
 08/18/09 Something strange has happened in America in the nine months since Barack Obama was elected. It has best been summarised by the comedian Bill Maher: "The Democrats have moved to the right, and the Republicans have moved to a mental hospital."
08/18/09 Since Obama's rise, the US right has been skipping frantically from one fantasy to another, like a person in the throes of a mental breakdown.
 08/18/09 Alaska Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Mark Begich are home from Congress for the August recess, and both are meeting with business and community groups, attempting to explain what's in various health care bills now before Congress.
 08/16/09 Given less-than-great protection at times and then chains that kept moving him backward, Green Bay's Matt Flynn held his composure and looked like an improved backup quarterback who is more ready to step into a real emergency situation if needed.
 08/16/09 Many feel that The Herald Journal owes another retraction. Most media freely quote abusive, corrosive, untrue rhetoric from the DV (Domestic Violence) establishment, which gets a free pass to wrongly bash men, thus ravaging the whole community.
 08/16/09 President Obama's health secretary says it's a "horrific" twisting of the facts to say that "death panels" are part of a health care overhaul. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says opponents of the administration's health overhaul are using scare tactics to try to derail an overhaul.
 08/08/09 A federal court of appeals finished hearing arguments Wednesday about Plano schools banning religious material and religious expression while in the classroom.
 08/08/09 The Collin County Sheriff's Office wasn't the first area agency to get a surprise visit from a fake Homeland Security agent. A Lewisville man facing charges for impersonating a federal agent tried to fake his way through several police departments in and around the Dallas-Fort Worth area. | 
