Lyndon Baines Johnson takes his second oath of office
View from the back of the platform shows President Lyndon Baines Johnson being sworn in by Chief Justice Earl Warren while Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Lady Bird Johnson look on. (UPI Photo/Files)
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The fate of New York City's "stop and frisk" police program might be something of a morality play for the rest of the United States. How much freedom are U.S. citizens willing to give up in the name of security?
The FBI and the rest of a crack U.S. interrogation team wanted to question the remaining marathon bombing suspect in his Boston hospital room without his lawyer because of what they fear: undiscovered explosive devices that could still kill and possible accomplices who might decide to carry out more terror.
Charles V. Bush, the first black to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court page, and one of the first black Air Force Academy graduates, has died in Montana. He was 72.
If Democratic leaders try to block Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's appointment to fill a vacant Senate seat they may run afoul of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
Today is Sunday, March 19, the 78th day of 2006 with 287 to follow.
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It was on this date in 1990 that the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution authorizing "all necessary means" -- including military force -- against Iraq if it does not withdraw from Kuwait by Jan. 15, 1991. It was the first such resolution since U.N.
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