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The Republic: Group questions constitutionality of middle-of-the-night 'wake up calls' by Richmond police by Larry O'Dell:

Richmond police are violating residents' constitutional rights by waking them in the middle of the night with a knock on the door to admonish them for leaving valuables in plain sight in their parked cars, a civil liberties group said Wednesday.

The Charlottesville-based Rutherford Institute said in a letter to Police Chief Bryan Norwood that the department's new "Wake Up Call" initiative invades residents' privacy and infringes on their Fourth Amendment right to be free of unreasonable police intrusions. The program also heightens the risk of a violent confrontation between police and an alarmed resident, the institute said.

"The recent Trayvon Martin incident from Florida should serve as a stark warning of how the fear and misunderstanding of a homeowner can turn a benign situation into tragedy involving loss of life," John W. Whitehead, executive director of the Rutherford Institute, wrote in the letter.

Dropping out is hard to do. It's been especially hard for Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul....

Dropping out is hard to do. It's been especially hard for Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul....

With about five months to go, the presidential race is tightening, polls show, with voters nearly evenly divided between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, his likely Republican challenger....

Dropping out is hard to do. It's been especially hard for Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul....

Only two presidential candidates have sought and received federal matching campaign funds this election cycle, and they're hardly household names....

Only two presidential candidates have sought and received federal matching campaign funds this election cycle, and they're hardly household names....

President Barack Obama has to tread carefully in targeting Republican rival Mitt Romney's business resume....

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Marco Rubio has outlined his vision of a more muscular American foreign policy as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney begins the search for a running mate....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Marco Rubio has outlined his vision of a more muscular American foreign policy as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney begins the search for a running mate....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In politics, this is the year of big money. It's the first presidential race since two court decisions in 2010 changed the rules....

Jim DeMint says companies shouldn't have to go hat in hand to ask Congress to free them from tariffs on raw materials

A US Marine sergeant who criticised President Barack Obama as an enemy on Facebook is to face an other-than-honourable discharge.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Government corruption and deteriorating roads caused a fiery multiple car and truck crash in Nigeria that killed at least 18 people in 2010, a coroner said Wednesday, highlighting major challenges facing Africa's most populous nation....

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Government corruption and deteriorating roads caused a fiery multiple car and truck crash in Nigeria that killed at least 18 people in 2010, a coroner said Wednesday, highlighting major challenges facing Africa's most populous nation....

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Government corruption and deteriorating roads caused a fiery multiple car and truck crash in Nigeria that killed at least 18 people in 2010, a coroner said Wednesday, highlighting major challenges facing Africa's most populous nation....

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Government corruption and deteriorating roads caused a fiery multiple car and truck crash in Nigeria that killed at least 18 people in 2010, a coroner said Wednesday, highlighting major challenges facing Africa's most populous nation....

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Government corruption and deteriorating roads caused a fiery multiple car and truck crash in Nigeria that killed at least 18 people in 2010, a coroner said Wednesday, highlighting major challenges facing Africa's most populous nation....

The Federal Reserve's interest rate setters raise their forecasts for US economic growth in 2012 but leave rates unchanged.