A Sudbury nursing home resident who claimed she was sexually assaulted by an aide early this year has been illegally blocked from testifying in next month's trial because of her disability, her lawyer said.

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As the time approaches for President Obama to choose a successor to Justice David Souter, the term "litmus test" will be heard throughout the land.

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A Tulsan who had a prior molestation case dismissed due to mental retardation is headed to prison on two counts of making indecent proposals when he thought he was communicating with a 13-year-old girl.

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St. Johns, Ariz. was in shock Monday last week when an 8-year-old allegedly confessed to shooting and killing his father and another man.

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On his radio show, Michael Savage said, "I am telling you that there's gonna be a wholesale firing of competent white men in the United States government up and down the line, in police departments, in fire departments.

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One thing was clear: the Republican Party was no longer the party of George W. Bush. But exactly whose party was it, and whose should it become? Senator John McCain never quite succeeded in presenting a coherent alternative version. Can someone else do better?

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After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, FDR demanded that a disarmed America "build 50,000 planes" -- a seemingly impossible number, but one America met and exceeded.

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America's foes and rivals have long overrated the Central Intelligence Agency. When Henry Kissinger traveled to China in 1971, Prime Minister Chou En-lai asked about CIA subversion.

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