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CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez on Saturday rejected a U.S. report alleging that drug trafficking is soaring in Venezuela, stepping up his criticism of President Barack Obama following the U.S. leader’s Jan. 20 inauguration.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — William Osborne says he’s a victim of mistaken identity and a DNA test would prove it. Alaska prosecutors say his rape and attempted murder convictions are as solid as can be, and would be pointless to revisit.
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ATLANTA — An undercover agent describes the setup this way: A person seeking to commit suicide places an “exit hood” over his head and inflates it by turning on a tank of helium as the gas fills his bloodstream. After a few breaths, he loses consciousness. Ten to 15 minutes later, he dies.
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WASHINGTON — Suspected al-Qaida sleeper agent Ali Al-Marri is now facing criminal charges, but the Obama administration is refusing to rule out the future use of indefinite detention for terrorism suspects picked up in the United States.
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RICHMOND, Va. — A rare 1776 copy of the Declaration of Independence belongs to a Virginia technology entrepreneur, not the state of Maine, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled Friday. Richard Adams Jr. of Fairfax County purchased the document from a London book dealer in 2001 for $475,000. But the state of Maine claimed it belongs to the town of Wiscasset, where it was kept by the town clerk in 1776.
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Her daughter was one of four young people who died from overdoses linked to a Fairfax County heroin ring, and she took the stand in federal court in Alexandria yesterday with a message for parents: It could have been your child.
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Supporters of the D.C. vote bill expressed optimism yesterday that the legislation would be stripped of an amendment that would turn the nation’s capital into one of the easiest places in America to own a gun.
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“FIREARMS AND domestic strife are a potentially deadly combination nationwide.” So wrote Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg this week in an opinion upholding a federal law that bars convicted domestic violence abusers from possessing firearms. Seven justices, including conservatives Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr., joined the opinion. This is the same Supreme Court that held last year that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms. If the justices can bless such a law, one wonders why Maryland lawmakers cannot follow suit and embrace an equally sensible measure.
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I wish to protest the Feb. 14 Free for All letter of Constance Grace, who said she was “deeply offended” by music critic Anne Midgette’s description of composer Aaron Copland.
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WASHINGTON — Suspected al-Qaida sleeper agent Ali Al-Marri is now facing criminal charges, but the Obama administration is refusing to rule out the future use of indefinite detention for terrorism suspects picked up in the United States.
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