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Chicago mayor race wide open as Daley steps aside
September 10, 2010CHICAGO -- Months of political jockeying began in earnest Wednesday as speculation grew about who would try to succeed Mayor Richard M. Daley as leader of the nation's third-largest city, including one-time aide and current White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.
Chicago mayor race wide open as Daley steps aside
September 10, 2010CHICAGO -- Months of political jockeying began in earnest Wednesday as speculation grew about who would try to succeed Mayor Richard M. Daley as leader of the nation's third-largest city, including one-time aide and current White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.
Court won't order California to defend Prop 8
September 10, 2010SAN FRANCISCO -- California's highest court on Wednesday refused to order Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the state's attorney general to appeal a federal ruling that overturned the state's gay marriage ban.
Sharon V. Burrell*
September 10, 2010 Age: 52 Residence: Silver Spring. Education: BA, English, Barnard College of Columbia University; J.D. Harvard Law School.
D.C. community calendar, Sept. 9 to 16, 2010
September 10, 2010BABE RUTH PORTRAIT TALK, historian Jim Barber discusses the portrait by William Auerbach-Levy. 6 p.m., National Portrait Gallery, Eighth and F streets NW. Free. 202-633-1000.
D.C. community calendar, Sept. 9 to 16, 2010
September 10, 2010BABE RUTH PORTRAIT TALK, historian Jim Barber discusses the portrait by William Auerbach-Levy. 6 p.m., National Portrait Gallery, Eighth and F streets NW. Free. 202-633-1000.
Ore. abuse case lawyers want to question cardinals
September 10, 2010PORTLAND, Ore. -- Lawyers for a man who wants to hold the Vatican accountable for the priest who molested him in the 1960s asked a federal judge Wednesday to allow them to question top cardinals.
Appeals court lets government halt torture lawsuit
September 10, 2010SAN FRANCISCO -- A sharply divided federal appeals court on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit challenging a controversial post-Sept. 11 CIA program that flew terrorism suspects to secret prisons.
Atty: Wife of imprisoned ex-Ill. gov. terminal
September 10, 2010 CHICAGO -- The 76-year-old wife of imprisoned former Gov. George Ryan has a terminal lung disease, Ryan's attorney told a judge Thursday as he sought bail for Ryan while the judge considers a request to toss part of his corruption conviction.
Pa. mayor to take immigration law to Supreme Court
September 10, 2010HAZLETON, Pa. -- A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Hazleton, Pa., may not enforce its crackdown on illegal immigrants, dealing another blow to 4-year-old regulations that inspired similar measures around the country. The city's mayor pledged to take the case to the Supreme Court.
