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CHICAGO (AP) -- They call this place the Back of the Yards, a neighborhood in the middle of the city once filled with acres and acres of stockyards....

Amitai Etzioni says there are bigger priorities than a new push for manned exploration in space

Turkey reacts angrily after Syrian fire across its border causes casualties, as a UN-brokered ceasefire plan looks increasingly in doubt.

Microsoft agrees to buy more than 800 of AOL's patents and license others in a move that may aid its legal battles.

Microsoft agrees to buy more than 800 of AOL's patents and license others in a move that may aid its legal battles.

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Tough negotiations between Iran and world powers over Tehran's nuclear program ended Thursday with a plan to meet next month for another round of talks but agreement on little else....

An extra 7,000 in Wales will be without a job before summer ends, claims a left-leaning think-tank, but the UK government says there are encouraging labour market signs.

SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Yemeni troops backed by armed tribesmen routed al-Qaida on Tuesday from two southern strongholds the terror network had held for more than a year, the most significant victory so far in a monthlong offensive against a local franchise that has tried time and again to bomb U.S.-bound planes....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lakeside gardens, dining rooms hovering over water, grassy new amphitheaters and underground pavilions at the foot of the Washington Monument have emerged as finalists in a design competition to overhaul neglected sites on the National Mall....

TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Police arrested two men suspected in a deadly shooting rampage that terrorized Tulsa's African-American community, and said online postings indicated one may have been trying to avenge his father's death....

Julian Zelizer says if Romney clinches the nomination, he shouldn't try for a "game changing" running mate

A group of trespassers managed to break into the Shard - western Europe's tallest building - and scale the pinnacle, it has emerged.

The man who shot Trayvon Martin asks for donations on a new website and says, "I have been forced to leave my home, my school, my employer, my family and ultimately, my entire life."

Malawi's new leader Joyce Banda sacks police chief Peter Mukhito - an ally of President Bingu wa Mutharika who died last week.

LONDON (AP) -- Queen Elizabeth II has appointed the Duchess of Cornwall to the highest female rank in the Royal Victorian Order, Buckingham Palace said Monday....

Barack Obama's Facebook page is swamped with comments from supporters of a candidate who may be barred from standing in Egypt's presidential poll.

Plaintiff was civilly committed as a sex offender, and his 161 audio DVDs and CDs were seized to see if they were sexually explicit. It took months to do the review. Because there had been no prior case on it, the officials involved were entitled to qualified immunity. As for the merits, he has a right to the discs, but the institution has an institutional security need to evaluate them for sexually explicit materials. Ahlers v. Rabinowitz, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 7035 (2d Cir. April 6, 2012).

This Circuit has not articulated the standard by which to analyze censorship of mail in the civil commitment context. "Restrictions on prisoners' mail are justified only if they 'further[] one or more of the substantial governmental interests of security, order, and rehabilitation ... [and] must be no greater than is necessary or essential to the protection of the particular governmental interest involved.'" Davis v. Goord, 320 F.3d 346, 351 (2d Cir. 2003) (alterations in original) (quoting Washington, 782 F.2d at 1139). With regard to legal mail, "an isolated incident of mail tampering is usually insufficient to establish a constitutional violation. Rather, the inmate must show that prison officials 'regularly and unjustifiably interfered with the incoming legal mail.'" Id. (citations omitted) (quoting Cancel v. Goord, No. 00 CIV 2042 LMM, 2001 WL 303713, at *6 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 29, 2001)). In the context of civil commitment, this formula is easily adapted. A patient must show regular and unjustifiable interference with incoming legal mail; the actions of facility staff in restricting civilly committed individuals' access to legal mail are justified if they advance or protect the state's interest in security, order, or treatment and the restrictions imposed are no greater than necessary to advance the governmental interest involved.

PARIS (AP) -- French authorities contend the gunman in a killing spree in Toulouse took the path to religious radicalization behind bars - with neither teacher nor network....

PARIS (AP) -- French authorities contend the gunman in a killing spree in Toulouse took the path to religious radicalization behind bars - with neither teacher nor network....

Work is continuing to finish removing fuel from a cargo ship stranded off north Wales for nearly a week, ahead of it being broken up for scrap.