President Barack Obama on Monday nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, declaring she would demonstrate the same independence, integrity and passion for the law exhibited by retiring Justice John Paul Stevens.

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President Barack Obama on Monday nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, declaring she would demonstrate the same independence, integrity and passion for the law exhibited by retiring Justice John Paul Stevens.

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Republicans would be busily planning their filibuster if President Barack Obama nominated to the highest court anyone who opposes the death penalty, supports abortion choice, condemns presidential overreach even during wartime, favors gay rights and says church and state should ...

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Gov. Jay Nixon campaigned for years on reversing cuts to the state's Medicaid program. But actually implementing that pledge was easier said than done.

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Gov. Jay Nixon campaigned for years on reversing cuts to the state's Medicaid program. But actually implementing that pledge was easier said than done.

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Shepard Fairey, the artist whose “Hope” election poster of Barack Obama hangs in the National Portrait Gallery, told a New York judge that the Associated Press licenses images of artists’ work without permission. The claim was made during AP’s copyright-infringement ...

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The Obama administration supports congressional efforts to make it harder for criminals to set up U.S. corporations to hide illegal activities, a Treasury Department official said Thursday. “The ability of criminal and other illicit actors to form corporations in the ...

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Broderick Johnson, a former informal adviser to President Barack Obama’s campaign, continued his rapid rise at Bryan Cave by joining the firm’s executive committee. Johnson, who works in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office, is the head of Bryan Cave’s public ...

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President Barack Obama, whose trip to Copenhagen failed to land the Olympics, is being pressured to return to the city this year on another risky mission: winning a global agreement to fight global warming. “I would hope since he went ...

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An ex-employee is seeking a piece of Pi. Ryan Mangialardo is suing the St. Louis pizzeria Pi and owners Chris Sommers and Frank Uible for a breach of contract. Mangialardo claims he had an agreement for two percent interest in ...

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It’s finally official. Judge Richard Callahan has been tapped to become the federal prosecutor for Eastern Missouri. President Barack Obama announced his picks for four U.S. attorney openings on Friday. He chose Callahan, a circuit judge in Jefferson City, to ...

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