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Meanwhile, Romney is avoiding tough questions about how he would tackle health care

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama, emboldened by the Supreme Court's affirmation of his health care overhaul, is now embracing the law while campaigning for re-election, just as Republican rival Mitt Romney steps back from it.


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Ex-felons face legal discrimination, which some contend is abritrary

SAN FRANCISCO – After trying unsuccessfully for eight years to find rental housing in Orange County following her release from state prison, Robin Keeble finally decided she had had enough.


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Senate report had claimed that Goldman misled its clients and Congress

(CNN) -- The Justice Department says after a "careful review" it has determined there is no basis for bringing a criminal prosecution against Goldman Sachs or its employees in regard to allegations set forth in a congressional report.


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Effort came after City Council rejected the establishment of at least one Latino voting district

ANAHEIM, California (CNN) -- As tensions roil between Latinos and city officials over accusations of police brutality, Hispanic activists will press the Anaheim City Council for a way to have at least one elected Latino to represent them, leaders said Thursday.


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Native Americans were huge chunks of South Dakota's corrections population in 2011

ROSEBUD, South Dakota (CNN) -- Whoever wins the 2012 U.S. presidential election faces multiple, serious problems in the U.S. prison system. One issue is the soaring prison population and its rising costs; but another is the issue over who makes up that population.


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Draft outlines 65 recommendations for education, health, juvenile justice and employment

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- California must prioritize policies to address the plight of boys and young men of color who represent a fast-growing segment of the state's population, but a disproportionate share of prison inmates, school dropouts and the unemployed, an Assembly committee report released Wednesday said.

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Redistricting helped defeat Rep. Hansen Clarke

DETROIT (AP) -- U.S. Rep. Gary Peters won a faceoff with a Democratic colleague that will leave Detroit without two black members of Congress for the first time in nearly a half-century, but John Conyers -- one of the founders of the Congressional Black Caucus -- easily survived a crowded primary fight of his own.


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FBI is investigating officers' suspicious claim that Chavis Carter shot himself while handcuffed

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Police in Arkansas are investigating whether a man fatally shot himself in the head as he sat in the backseat of a patrol car with his hands cuffed behind his back.


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Obama Administration wants sole power over prisoners' access to counsel

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Obama administration has begun limiting the legal rights of terror suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba, telling a federal judge Tuesday the government alone should decide when the prisoners deserve regular access to their counsel.


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The Supreme Court has ruled that executing people with mental disabilities is unconstitutional

(CNN) -- A Texas man convicted in the shooting death of a 21-year-old man in 1992 was executed Tuesday in Huntsville, officials said.


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