AP leak case isn't clear instance of gov't overreach

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No justification for subpoena of AP records

The following editorial appeared Sunday in the Washington Post:

Scandals look bad, but let's keep some perspective

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Media, tea party coalesce around common enemy

Breaking news: Conservative organizations suddenly have found common cause with one of their favorite objects of contempt - the benighted Mainstream Media.

Federal officials: No suspect in custody in Boston bombings

BOSTON — Police and reporters converged on the federal courthouse in Boston on Wednesday amid conflicting reports of whether a suspect was in custody in the marathon bombings that killed three people and wounded more than 170.

News media use array of questionable expressions

The fact that The Associated Press news agency decided to ban the term "illegal immigrant" last week is a big victory for fairness in journalism, but there are other terms used daily in the media that should be revised as well.

Guest opinion: Tucson Grammy nominee takes on Academy

2012 nominee for Best Americana Album says Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences changed the rules after her.

This week on TV

"The Dust Bowl" airs tonight on PBS, with photos showing the devastation and contemporaries' firsthand accounts.

AZ exit poll: Majority say Romney would better handle economy

PHOENIX — Highlights of preliminary results of exit polls conducted in Arizona for The Associated Press and television networks:

Ariz. police agencies lose federal immigration arrest authority

PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has stripped seven Arizona police agencies of their special powers to make federal immigration arrests.

Woman sues Border Patrol, agent over fatal shooting of son

PHOENIX — The mother of an unarmed 19-year-old Arizona man fatally shot in the back by a U.S. Border Patrol agent has sued the federal government and the agent.

Even Miami cops shocked by face-chewing gore

MIAMI — It is being called one of this city’s goriest crimes: A naked man was on top of another nude man along a busy highway, biting into the man’s face, tearing it to pieces. A police officer arrived to help, but the mauler growled at him and continued to chew away, stopping only when he w…

Bronzed NJ mom: Daughter’s burns not from salon

NEWARK, N.J. — A woman whose own skin is deeply bronze-colored from regular visits to a tanning salon has been accused of taking her 5-year-old daughter into a tanning booth in violation of state law, burning the girl’s skin.

The AP, Inquirer among Pulitzer winners

NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting Monday for documenting the New York Police Department’s spying on Muslims, while The Philadelphia Inquirer was honored in the public service category for its examination of violence in the city’s schools.

Spoiler alert: ACM winners include big one for Blake, repeat for Taylor

The show still has an hour to go, but the Associated Press is reporting the winners of the Academy of Country Music Awards, including Blake Shelton as male artist of the year and his wife Miranda Lambert winning her second straight female vocalist ACM.

Wash. man faces bigamy charge after wife ‘friends’ his other wife on Facebook

TACOMA, Wash. — Facebook’s automatic efforts to connect user through “friends” they may know recently led two Washington women to find out they were married to the same man, at the same time.

Va. boy, 5, accused of stabbing 3 in fight over juice box

A 5-year-old Virginia boy is in police custody after allegedly stabbing three people in an attack over a juice box, news reports say.

Giffords calls husband brave in ABC interview

WASHINGTON — Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, in her first public interview since she was shot in the head in Tucson last winter, doted on her husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly, and called him “brave, brave, brave” as she kissed his bald head.

Drought deepens in Tucson

It is the worst of times. It is ridiculously hot. It is uncomfortably humid. And it's not raining nearly enough to make enduring such nonsense worthwhile.