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The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a Colorado man who claimed he was retaliated against for expressing his political opposition toward then Vice President Dick Cheney cannot sue U.S. Secret Service agents who believed they had probable cause to arrest him.
Sayad Parwez Kambaksh, an Afghani journalism student who was sentenced to death in January for for handing out a so-called anti-Islamic paper that he found on the Internet, told an appeals court on Sunday that his confession was the result of torture.
The Associated Press reports that former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer may have lied to federal investigators about his role in the disclosure of a political rival's travel records.
The Environmental Protection Agency responded to various document requests that Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) has been seeking from the agency with a records request of its own regarding interviews that Waxman himself conducted.
Iran announced today that it had sentenced journalist Yaghoob Mirnehad to death for his alleged role in a terrorism organization, the Associated Press reports.
Mirnehad worked for a Tehran-based daily newspaper, Mardomsalari, in the southeastern part of the country. He was arrested last May.
Ali Reza Jamshidi, a spokesman for Iran's judiciary, said Mirnehad could appeal his sentence to Iran's Supreme Court.
A Michigan county sheriff’s office will no longer release information in a routine fashion after the Argus-Press published an article criticizing the department, the newspaper says.
On Tuesday, a 23-year-old journalism student was sentenced to death in Afghanistan for handing out a paper he found on the Internet, which the court considered to be against Islam.
Sayad Parwez Kambaksh shared the paper with his teacher and fellow students at Balkh University, and several classmates complained to local authorities.
The First Amendment Center reports that a federal trial court in Virginia refused to grant summary judgment for a county school board who barred a reporter from school property. Earl F.
The Associated Press reports that three newspaper sales representatives were charged with aiding and abetting prostitution after selling ad space in an alternative weekly’s back pages.
Among the more damning evidence police claim to have are videotapes of Orlando Weekly employees selling advertising space to undercover officers openly claiming to be prostitutes.
