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Madison -- A group of perhaps one hundred protesters has entered the previously restricted and quiet Capitol and is now chanting, “Our house, our house.”David Noyce of Madison said that he entered the building with the demonstrators after someone let them in and that a policeman flashed him a thumbs up as he entered. The protesters entered just as Gov. Scott Walker was about to start a news conference in a separate room of the building.

Republicans on Thursday said that House Democrats have been less than transparent in bringing their major campaign finance bill to the floor, arguing that key negotiations have taken place behind closed doors.  The House is poised to vote on the bill Thursday, but the ranking Republican on the Rules Committee, Rep. David Dreier (Calif.), said that debate on the Dislcose Act will be unfairly limited.  "Although the legislation was described as 'fundamental to our democracy' by Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi, it will debated for just an hour and only after a brand new manager’s amendment that rewrites the bill is adopted without...

Called A Threat To Law Enforcement, National Security (CBS) -- BAGHDAD U.S. Army Sgt. Juwan Johnson got a hero's welcome while home on leave in June of 2004. "Not only did I love my son - but my god - I liked the man he was becoming," his mother, Stephanie Cockrell, remembers. But that trip home was the last time his family saw him alive. When Johnson died, he wasn't in a war zone, he was in Germany. "He had finished his term in Iraq," his mother said. "I talked to him the day before his death. He said, 'Mom,...