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SEATTLE/BOSTON - A federal judge in Seattle on Friday granted a nationwide temporary restraining order blocking U.S. President Donald Trump's recent action barring nationals from seven countries from entering the United States. The judge's order represents a major challenge to the Trump administration, which is expected to immediately appeal. The judge declined to stay the order, suggesting that travel restrictions could be lifted immediately. The challenge was brought by the state of Washington and later joined by the state of Minnesota. The Seattle judge ruled that the states have legal standing to sue, which could help Democratic attorneys general take...

Republicans have been hitting the Obama administration for Attorney General Eric Holder's too-quick decision to Mirandize accused Christmas bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab after a mere 50 minutes of what has been described as valuable interrogation. After the Miranda moment, the would-be bomber clammed up. Critics argue that the FBI did not need to tell the Nigerian citizen that he had a right to remain silent and to an attorney. For one thing, he is not a U.S. citizen, but arguably an "enemy combatant" caught entering the country intent on committing an act of war. And even if he were a...

The prison bars didn't break Sister Mary Dennis Lentsch's spirit. "I always felt free, even in prison," she said. "My inner spirit really felt free because I knew I had done the right thing. Now that spirit of freedom has just expanded." Lentsch, 69, came home to East Tennessee on Friday after serving six months in a federal prison in Lexington, Ky., for trespassing. She and about 30 others had crossed a fence at Fort Benning, Ga., during a November 2005 protest against a training center they blame for human-rights violations in Latin America. The Roman Catholic nun from Oak...

Josh Wolf has one thing in common with Judith Miller, the last journalist jailed by a federal judge: Both of them refused to disclose confidential material sought by grand juries. Apart from that, Wolf, the 24-year-old San Francisco freelance journalist who was held in contempt of court Tuesday, comes from a different world from Miller, the former New York Times national security reporter who spent 85 days in federal prison last year until she agreed to reveal who told her a Bush administration critic's wife was a CIA agent. "I'm not (interested) in making it in the world of mainstream...

Out of the 19 Islamic terrorists that attacked America in 9/11, how many Iraqis?Hint-----ZERO Out of the thousands of Islamic militants arrested in the US and Europe, how many Iraqis?Hint----ZERO Where did the US discover there is a new El Quaida terrorist camp? Hint----Iran, not IraqWell, I am not the smartest man in the world, but the above facts should give me a hint on who should be my greatest enemy?