Media Archives

May 31

• First Amendment does not protect government whistleblowers who disclose wrongdoing as part of their jobs
• House Judiciary Committee will ask attorney general and FBI director about their decision to search congressmen's offices
• How current Senate and House immigration reform legislation differs from the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
• How should the record books refer to Barry Bonds' record-breaking home run statistics?
• Search ends for Jimmy Hoffa's body at Michigan horse farm
• School board votes to retain challenged books on required reading list

May 10

• American elementary and middle school students will only be able to buy water and unsweetened juices at school by 2009
• U.S. officials step up arrests of people attempting to enter the country illegally via U.S.-Mexico border
• Former head of Abu Ghraib prison charged with violating the Uniform Code of Military Justice for his role in the abuse of detainees in Iraq
• U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer ends investigation into allegations of jury misconduct in Ryan trial
• May is Older Americans Month

May 3

• Immigration reform debate sparks protests and proposals
• Violators of Alabama's Jim Crow laws may apply for pardon or record expungement under state's new "Rosa Parks Act"
• May is Older Americans Month