The Supreme Court today delivered a sweeping rebuke to the Bush administration, ruling that it exceeded its authority by creating tribunals for terror suspects that fell short of the legal protections that Congress has traditionally required in military courts.
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The sprawling detention site known as Camp Delta is part of the detention center […]

Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes is reportedly “on the warpath” about his network’s recent ratings slide – and has given notice to staffers that he’s willing to clean house, according to a report in Broadcasting & Cable.
The cable news channel’s overall prime-time ratings are off 8 percent in the second quarter of this year, and […]

Award-winning Egyptian blogger and activist Alaa Seif al-Islam Abd al-Fattah walked out of Omraniya police station late this afternoon after spending 46 days in detention for attending a May 7 protest. I spoke with him soon after his release and he sounded fine—exhausted after a terrible night in the police station jail, but happy to […]

“Brace yourself,” Buffett warned with a grin. He then described a momentous change in his thinking. Within months, he said, he would begin to give away his Berkshire Hathaway fortune, then and now worth well over $40 billion.
This news was indeed stunning. Buffett, 75, has for decades said his wealth would go […]

San Francisco, eager to put its own stamp on the health care debate, unveiled an ambitious plan Tuesday that would make it the first city in the nation to provide every uninsured resident with access to medical services.
When rolled out next year, the city’s 82,000 uninsured residents would become eligible for a wide array of […]

Cannon Industries, Inc. in Rochester, New York, has agreed to pay $35,000 to two employees who accused the company of retaliating against them because they reported health and safety concerns to OSHA.
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Standing in front of a gleaming red SFFD Hook and Ladder, Mayor Gavin Newsom yesterday announced an ambitious new citywide initiative to increase use of biodiesel and reduce the harmful effects on air quality of regular diesel fuel.
Newsom also issued an executive directive to increase the pace of municipal use of biodisel, making San Francisco […]

There is as much wind power potential (900,000 megawatts) off our coasts as the current capacity of all power plants in the United States combined, according to a new report entitled, A Framework for Offshore Wind Energy Development in the United States, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, and General Electric.
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The US senate today rejected a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage which had the backing of President George Bush.
The motion gained the votes of only 49 senators, which is 11 short of the 60 votes needed to take the measure forward. Republican leaders have vowed to take it up in the House of Representatives later […]