House Democratic leaders are putting together the largest Iraq war spending bill yet, a measure that is expected to fund the war through the end of the Bush presidency and for nearly six months into the next president's term. So much for the democrats ending any wars.

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A Florida judge sentenced the "Blade" movie star to three years in jail today. Snipes was convicted of tax fraud in February for not filing his income taxes for at least three years.

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A Chicago man who was in critical condition for five days after police used a Taser to subdue him outside an Oxford bar died Thursday evening. Kevin Piskura, 24, was pronounced dead at 4:17 p.m. Chicago time of injuries suffered when police in Oxford, Ohio, fired the stun gun at him early Saturday morning.

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The Chicago Sun-Times tells the story of Erasmo Palacios, who, after dropping off his six-year-old daughter at school, was with his wife Rocio and their 22-year-old daughter, all on their way to breakfast when they saw a woman waving her arms. Thinking she was in distress, they approached her in the car...

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The photo taken by embedded photojournalist Michael Kamber two weeks ago during a fateful patrol in search of missing American soldiers — could well become the last visual evidence of U.S. casualties in the Iraq war.

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Annapolis narcotics officers hit the wrong apartment last night while serving a search and seizure warrant, terrorizing the four tenants and damaging their home. Resident says officers didn't ID themselves, kicked husband in groin.

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Paris Hilton has not only had her sentence cut short, she is already out of jail! She was originally sentenced to 45 days in jail, but that was reduced to 23. She served a total of five days .

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Last week, we were asking how police found themselves in the bedroom of a naked couple in Lancaster, Calif., in 2001, guns drawn. This led to a discussion of the problem with "no-knock" - or even "shout-once-and-storm-in" - search warrants.

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American Civil Liberties Union pointed out that the DHS's Employment Eligibility Verification System (EEVS) is error plagued and if the department makes a mistake in determining work eligibility, there will be virtually no way to challenge the error or recover lost wages due to the bill’s prohibitions on judicial review.

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A Michigan man has been fined $400 and given 40 hours of community service for accessing an open wireless Internet connection outside a coffee shop.

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