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AP CEO calls records seizure 'unconstitutional'

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 20th

By PHILIP ELLIOTTAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The Associated Press' president and chief executive says the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records has already had a chilling effect on newsgathering, a week after the subpoenas were revealed publicly.

NY town eyes limit on use of Plum Island

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 20th

By FRANK ELTMANAssociated Press MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) - Selling an island where scientists have experimented with infectious animal diseases since the dawn of the Cold War was going to be difficult enough. But it now appears any prospective buyer won't be able to do much with Plum Island anyway.

US adviser on board of firm that sold anthrax drug

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 20th

WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, who has served as a bio-warfare adviser to the president, the Pentagon, and the Department of Homeland Security, urged the government to stockpile an anti-anthrax drug while serving as a director for the company that supplied it, according

AP CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 19th

By PHILIP ELLIOTTAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records "unconstitutional" and said the news cooperative had not ruled out legal action

AP CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 19th

NM mom: I followed instincts in chasing abductor

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 17th

By RUSSELL CONTRERASAssociated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Melissa Torrez didn't even think when teenagers in her apartment complex said a man had just grabbed her 4-year-old girl and drove away. She jumped in her car and began chasing the brown Buick through traffic, zigzagging on

Problems surface over Ariz.'s 2007 immigration law

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 17th

By JACQUES BILLEAUDAssociated Press PHOENIX (AP) - The immigration debate in Arizona reached a boiling point in 2007 when the state passed a groundbreaking law targeting those often blamed with fueling the nation's border woes: Employers who hire immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. The law

House bill protects homeland security budget

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 16th

By ANDREW TAYLORAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - A Republican-controlled House panel moved Thursday to protect the Department of Homeland Security from the big cuts facing other domestic agencies under the party's budget slashing plan. The move came as the Appropriations Committee leadership

House bill protects homeland security budget

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 16th

Mom in NM chases down child abductor; man arrested

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 16th

By RUSSELL CONTRERASAssociated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A mother whose 4-year-old was being abducted chased the suspect down and crashed her vehicle into his car, triggering a manhunt and the arrest of the suspect, Albuquerque police said Thursday. The young girl was playing in her yard at St