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Judge rules against 'America's toughest sheriff' in racial profiling lawsuit

24 May 2013

PHOENIX - Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio violated the constitutional rights of Latino drivers in his crackdown on illegal immigration, a federal judge found on Friday, and ordered him to stop using race as a factor in law enforcement decisions.

Sixth night of violence in Sweden, but police say capital calmer

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STOCKHOLM - Community patrols and a beefed-up police presence helped to calm violence around Stockholm overnight on Saturday but 20 to 30 cars were still torched in poor immigrant suburbs and serious incidents were reported outside the capital for the first time. | Video

A view of downtown Detroit, Michigan January 30, 2013. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook

Amid crisis, Detroit trustees decamp to Hawaii

HONOLULU - The city of Detroit may be facing a deepening financial crisis but that hasn't stopped four trustees of its public pension funds from spending $22,000 of retirement system funds to attend a conference in Hawaii this week.  Full Article 

Artist Gretchen Baer paints on a fence marking the U.S. border in Naco, Mexico April 17, 2013. REUTERS/Tim Gaynor

U.S.-Mexico neighbors reach across the fence

NACO, Mexico - As the U.S. pushes for tighter security along the Mexico border as part of efforts to overhaul immigration laws, residents on either side of the fence have taken the unusual step of working to strengthen neighborly ties.  Full Article 

A man hold a plastic bag with oil from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill south of Freemason Island, Louisiana May 7, 2010. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Academics back BP fight to cap oil spill payouts

LONDON - A group of accountancy professors is backing BP's fight to cap the U.S. oil spill compensation payouts it has to fund as the cash outflow threatens to add billions of dollars to its bill for the disaster.  Full Article 

Actor Jason Bateman poses during a photocall for his film "The Change-Up" during the 37th American Film Festival in Deauville, September 4, 2011. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau

Netflix taps into 'binge-watching' TV trend

LOS ANGELES - Netflix is set to unleash 15 new episodes of the cult favorite show "Arrested Development" seven years after the sitcom was cut by Fox, harnessing the trend of viewers "binge-watching" TV series online and through DVDs.  Full Article 

Sister Filoteia of the Franciscan fraternity called O Caminho cuts the nails of a homeless person in the Campo Grande neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, April 16, 2013. REUTERS/Ricardo Morae

In the spirit of a Franciscan Pope

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - With the election of a Latin American Pope and his chosen name of Francis, one Reuters photographer took a closer look at the Franciscans, young followers of Saint Francis of Assisi, who roam Rio's streets, helping the poor.  Full Article 

Jack Shafer

What war on the press?

The Obama administration's legal battering of the press, while real, hardly rises to the level of war. The leak crackdown - and there has been one - has been mostly on the supply side, in the bureaucracy where the government leakers dwell, and not the demand side in newsrooms.  Commentary 

Zachary Karabell

Two cheers for the tech industry's goofy energy

It’s easy to dismiss Internet ecosystems as froth, whether in New York or Silicon Valley. Yet optimism and ambition are not just heady. They are essential for constructive change.  Commentary 

Reihan Salam

Obama's legacy could be moral, not political

Lately Obama seems like he's playing defense. One possible alternative, hinted at in a recent speech, is that Obama might take advantage of his prestige and moral authority to make the case for stronger American families.  Commentary 

David Rohde

Changing Assad’s calculus

Even as the international community discusses 'grand strategy,' Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is taking decisive action.  Commentary 

Chrystia Freeland

Some cracks in the technocrat cult

We are living in the age of the technocrats, but there are sound reasons why not to rely mechanically on technocratic solutions. That’s why it is worth reading a new paper by Daron Acemoglu of MIT and James Robinson of Harvard University.  Commentary 

Nicholas Wapshott

Lessons of the London butchers

The cases of the butchers of London and the Boston bombers raise an even more fundamental question: What exactly is terrorism? Since 9/11, the central management of al Qaeda’s operation has been defeated and the duty to continue the Islamist fight has passed to individual jihadists.  Commentary