Heavy voter turnout overwhelmed polling places in the key battleground states of Florida, Ohio and Virginia, prompting tens of thousands of complaints about long waits, missing ballots and malfunctioning voting machines.
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The ghost of Democrats’ dashed hopes in 2000, former Vice President Al Gore, urged Florida supporters of Barack Obama on Friday to take advantage of early voting – and to take nothing for granted.
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Counting down to an election day expected to draw a record-shattering turnout, voting-rights watchdogs are sounding the alarm that a repeat of the Florida fiasco of 2000 could occur in any of a dozen battleground states.
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The loose-leaf binders on Beverly Hills attorney Paul Kiesel’s blond wood shelves contain hundreds of stories alleging deception, loss and heartache.
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California’s payments to foster parents are so low that the state is in violation of the federal Child Welfare Act, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled Wednesday.
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The Pentagon has dropped war crimes charges against five Guantanamo prisoners tied to alleged terrorism kingpin Abu Zubaydah, an official of the Office of Military Commissions said today.
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Growing up with a Jewish mother and a Catholic father, Ramona Ripston learned early about intolerance.
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The phone rang at a rare moment between Angie Akins’ frantic drives from her home and her husband’s bedside in an intensive-care unit, between shuttling to her job and driving her 14-year-old daughter to after-school sports and ballet.
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At first brush, there was nothing about the 74-year-old beauty contest supplier from the Bible Belt bastion of Texarkana that inspired trial consultant Robert
B. Hirschhorn to want her on his high-tech client’s jury.
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When environmental lawyer Loren Montgomery realized she was pregnant eight years ago, she feared she would never make partner at her high-powered firm.
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