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On Monday a judge will rule on the constitutionality of requiring all Pennsylvania voters to show state-issued photo identification. Supporters say it's a common-sense remedy for voter fraud, but opponents counter it's an attempt to disenfranchise minorities.
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President Obama will nominate Jim Comey to be the country's next FBI director on Friday. Comey is best-known for raising alarms about a secret surveillance program during the Bush years. That issue has taken on new resonance after the latest revelations of government surveillance.
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The court filing comes one week after Google asked the U.S. government's permission to provide the public with information about the national security requests it receives.
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Some lawmakers have decried revelations that the government is collecting Internet and phone activity of millions of Americans. For the most part, though, there appear to be few calls for more oversight, let alone legislative changes.
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The ACLU claims the government's surveillance violates the Constitution's guarantee of free speech, association and privacy.
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The president said the death of Osama bin Laden and most of his top lieutenants, and the fact that there have been no large-scale terrorist attacks on the U.S. homeland, meant that a new policy was in order — one that concentrates on capturing, rather than killing terrorist suspects.
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The Senate's immigration bill would require all U.S. employers to use E-Verify, a federal database that checks a worker's immigration status instantly. While businesses have had difficulty using the system in the past, officials say its results are now accurate 98 percent of the time.
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Footage from privately owned surveillance cameras along the Boston Marathon route gave the FBI early clues about the bombing suspects. But the proliferation of cameras in America's big cities raises some tricky questions about the balance between security and privacy.
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The bill, which would ban abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, is a direct challenge to Supreme Court decisions.
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The CIA can no longer credibly argue that it can't even confirm it has such records, the court says.