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Faith-Based Views Veer Off a Straight Political Line

2 ROAD RAGE CASES YIELD NO CHARGES

Most effective treatment of COPD is quitting smoking

One saw the beginning of public affection, uncensored. One saw the beginning of a family. One saw the beginning of the end.

Today, 2,500 conservative members of the American Anglican Council meet in Dallas to consider whether they can remain in a denomination, the Episcopal Church USA, that not only accepts a newly confirmed gay bishop but also permits gay marriage blessings.

New York Strains to Handle Surge in Child Migrants

House Speaker Paul Ryan, of Wisconsin, says he hopes that the House and Senate will find consensus on a permanent legislative solution for young immigrants.

Mr. Leahy's plans will also be closely watched by senators with their own gun control legislative agendas, lawmakers who may decide to push their own bills if the committee process does not yield the results they seek.

Van Cleave, the president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League

Dreaming of a greater St. Louis

The only compromise that the proponents of guns will accept are those full of loopholes, which give the cosmetic appearance of control and accomplish very little.

Not Just Firearms, but Helmets and Bottles, Too

"It's not about equality,

Her dog, a white bichon frisé named Benji, woke her, so Fletcher scrambled in the dark for the 9mm Glock handgun she bought in February. She keeps it in the nightstand next to her bed.

And during a concert in Quebec City on Sunday night, Stevie Wonder announced that he would not perform in Florida until the Stand Your Ground law is repealed. He added, "Wherever I find that law exists I will not perform in that state or that part of the world."

At Whole Foods, a Welcome Sign For Immigrants Seeking Jobs

Lawyers spar over same-sex marriage before federal judges

COURT: BLUES CAN STAY IN SMOKERS SUIT

The president should follow through on his pledge as the Senate prepares to vote on renewal of the ban.

Eliminating these discriminatory laws isn't the first step toward permitting same-sex marriage. Rather, righting these wrongs is recognition that these discriminatory laws affect thousands of Minnesotans and undermine our state's commitment to fairness.

Early this month, the Bush administration floated a plan to grant legal status to the 3 million Mexicans in the country illegally.

"'If our foreign competitors had conspired to contrive a scheme to slow us down, I doubt that they could have come up with a better way to do that than the immigration law revision that is in the works today,"' says Andrew S. Grove, chief executive of Intel

This week, Isakson and Georgia's 10 other House members will cast important votes on new gun control. For Isakson and a majority of the Georgia delegation, some of whom campaigned against Congress' adoption of the assault weapons ban in 1994, the votes will be their first on the controversial topic since joining Congress.

U.S. Tobacco Industry Looks Longingly at Chinese Market, but in Vain

Reps. Alisha Thomas Morgan, D-Austell, and Rashad Taylor, D-Atlanta, said, despite the fact that the 2012 legislative session is almost over, gun legislation has to be reined in. In the time remaining in the session, the General Assembly is debating a bill that would lower the age to carry a gun to 18

The suit charges Schaub and Cline furthered a conspiracy to convict

Opponents of the bill argued that its restrictions would make it all but impossible for law-abiding residents to buy guns and would not reduce crime or mass shootings. The state already has some of the nation's toughest gun laws.

"We're on our way to being treated like everybody else,"

It recommended admitting that smoking

VITAL STATISTICS

"We probably have the best chance (of passage) that we've had in three or four years," said Rep. Mike Weaver, R-Mattoon, sponsor of the first bill. He believes the measure will make violent criminals think twice about their attacks. "The general public is getting very frustrated at being moving targets out there."

The House and Senate are weighing Obama's request for $3.7 billion to address the crisis. GOPers want to alter a 2008 law that hinders quick deportation of children to Central America. Democrats do not.

likely has reduced the suicide rate of older Americans.

The chemical nature of nicotine addiction is a tragedy but not a mystery. Scientists understand nicotine addiction quite well.

Only one major U.S. Protestant group has endorsed same-sex marriage outright. That's the United Church of Christ.

MOLD THREATENS TOBACCO IN SOUTHERN WISCONSIN

The announcement came just hours after Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., who is considering a presidential run in 2008, unveiled his own immigration bill -- a week after President Bush offered more detail on his vision for immigration reform. House Republican leaders have said their approach to immigration will start with border security.

Control of guns draws big heat

END BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP FOR MIGRANTS, GROUPS URGE

Yet in our nation's capital exists the highest murder rate in the nation

The Rev. Don Southworth's decision to stand behind his convictions and refuse to sign any marriage licenses until he can do so on both heterosexual and homosexual unions is among the more moral and courageous acts I've heard of in some time.

MIGRANTS' ARDUOUS JOURNEY ENDS IN TRAGED

A jury convicted Clemons without physical evidence of rape

RYAN MEETS WITH RELATIVES OF ILLINOIS DEATH ROW INMATES

SHOOT DOWN COURT RULING ON GUNS, MORGY URGES

Colorado will receive about $ 100 million a year for the next 25 years.

Harmon ignored the defendant's comment and told him an appeal of his death sentence was automatic and he would appoint attorneys to handle the appeal.

tapping into influence among Republicans to soften opposition to a pathway to citizenship.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

"We're going to keep on fighting until the law no longer treats committed partners who've been together for decades like they're strangers," Obama

etch their opposition of gay marriage into the Constitution

The protest, one of many gay rights protests held across the country, accused The Post of a "double standard" because it prints engagement and wedding announcements for heterosexual couples but not homosexual couples.

Colorado is slated to receive some $5.5 billion by 2045 under that settlement. But there are a lot of "ifs" in that projection. Last week the big tobacco companies won an arbitration ruling that they are losing market share to small competitors who don't make the payments. Big tobacco thus wants to reduce the $6.5 billion payment due the states later this month by $1.1 billion. Such a cut would drop Colorado's 2006 take by $15 million, to $75 million.

Another Broken Promise on Immigration

Women who smoke may be reducing their chances of having a baby, a new study finds. Exposure to even a small amount of a class of chemicals in cigarette smoke may destroy a woman's eggs in the ovaries, researchers wrote in Nature Genetics

"I was at a hearing and this lady sitting next to me was mocking the smart-gun legislation. I did some research and found out she was from the NRA.

I've always held that the kid did most if not all of the shooting.

Now, it's being employed by Democratic members of Congress to overcome Republican obstructionism.

here's how many applications the city received by day's end: one.

"The people who have received the special visa that the president has put in place, which is a two-year visa, should expect that the visa would continue to be valid,"

will go to the District or neighboring counties

Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney sought on Sunday to revive his party's contentious debate over illegal immigration, hoping to remind voters in New Hampshire of the issue that stoked conservative anger and nearly derailed Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign last summer.

PREACHING TO A BIG CHOIR

A man convicted of murder after a head was found buried in his backyard has admitted killing five other men

Feds get judicial scolding Judge exasperated at new delays in immigrant's citizenship quest Zuhair Mahd, a blind Palestinian computer programmer, has been in the U.S. legally for 17 years and passed his citizenship test in 2004.

AG duel with Bam gun foes

Congress has failed to close the gun-show loophole, and pro-gun Republicans and Democrats alike continually try, at the NRA's urging, to repeal sensible measures such as outlawing guns on college campuses, in bars and in national parks.

E. J. Dionne: Mayor won't give up on guns

HIT 'EM IN WALLET

Families Touched by Tragedy Plead for Handgun Bill

This city's rarely dull political scene has produced yet another oddity -next week's recall election, an attempt to unseat Mayor Dianne Feinstein that stems from her support for guncontrol legislation.

However, almost every serious study finds that immigration has only modest effects on the wages of native-born Americans, and those mostly involve high school dropouts in the short term. In the absence of immigrants, employers probably would substitute machines for workers in some jobs or invest in other lines of business rather than pay much higher wages to the native born.

"A guy in Elk River bought them," Rivard said. "He will refurbish them and resell them."

The committee endorsed it earlier this month, but now committee chairwoman Sen. Dottie Wham, R-Denver, would like to see the bill strengthened, and she's counting on a fight from the gun lobby.

Langberg: Tech visas come with obligation for valley leaders

state Attorney General Bill Lockyer said Wednesday.

VOICES/Do you think we need stronger gun-control laws?

``Non-smokers have become quite accustomed to being the ones who are uncomfortable and the ones who have to make the adjustments to try to get out of the situation,'' Husmann said. ``But when it's right where you live, it's really hard to escape it without moving.''

McClain has defended killers on Florida's Death Row for nearly a decade, putting him in an elite league of attorneys.

Bucks officer was executed, the D.A. says

Lawyer Is Convicted of Murder in Rampage

A host of law enforcement groups - including the International Association of Chiefs of Police, Major Cities Chiefs and scores of individual state and local chiefs of police - have written letters urging Congress to reject the proposed changes in federal gun laws.

Corbett compares same-sex unions to sibling marriage

for killing Coburn, a 25-year-old Hernando County deputy,

Young People at the Forefront of Gun Control

Few Arrestees Found to Be Illegal Pr. William Chief Issues Report on Crackdown

for expert witnesses requested by public defenders and attorneys representing indigent criminal defendants.

That friendly greeting is followed by 400 words of lawyer's duct tape

for profits:

It is unconscionable to discuss the recent shooting by a 6-year-old and include increased gun-control rhetoric in the same context

There are legal issues, of course, but there are far broader ones as well:

Gay marriage became legal in Maine in December.

reducing their long-term use of Social Security, Medicare and other federal benefits.

NRA Withholds Endorsement in Va. Race

In six subsequent tests, conducted between 1970 and 2000, Graham scored 62 to 66. To be medically diagnosed as mentally retarded, a person must score a 70 or below.

A day after cigarette makers and the attorneys general of seven states proposed a historic agreement to settle claims against the tobacco industry, legal experts predicted that even if the proposal overcomes hurdles in Congress, it is certain to be tied up in years of litigation.

Democrats said that given the party's increasingly powerful control of the Legislature - they now control two-thirds of the seats, in both the Assembly and the Senate - they were confident that the legislation could pass swiftly and hoped it would set a model for other states around the country.

Wash. state lawmakers pass gay marriage bill

Gun violence unlikely to prompt any changes in federal law

Los Gatos: Ellis Island experience brought to life by local students