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...Even though I am California's "top cop," 2 of my tires were stolen. No matter. I got 2 new ones and I'm rolling again!' JERRY BROWN, California's attorney general, in a Facebook posting after his state-owned Toyota Camry was ransacked...
...Detroit A New Plan For GM General Motors announced a new deal with the U.S. Treasury on May 5 in which the government would forgive about $10 billion of the carmaker's $15.4 billion federal debt in return for a 50% stake in the company. The United Auto Workers union urged the government to reject the proposed plan, which also includes a 100-to-1 reverse stock split, because it would call on GM to outsource more of its manufacturing to foreign countries...
...Justice Department ethics investigation says the Bush Administration lawyers whose secret memos laid the legal foundation for brutal interrogation tactics should not be prosecuted. However, the draft also recommends that state bar associations consider disciplinary action, including possible disbarment, for those involved in composing the memos. Attorney General Eric Holder has yet to approve its findings...
...remain hopeful that we can find an opening within HUDS for anyone in a position that is being eliminated due to the service changes,” the statement said. 17 dining hall staff took the early retirement package, and 24 jobs—12 cooks and 12 general service positions—are being cut as a result of the elimination of hot breakfast, according to Annenberg shop steward Larry E. Houston. Last Friday, dining hall employees received information packets that included bid forms listing all positions for next year—organized by dining halls, total hours...
Designed to handle crimes committed in times of war or rebellion, military commissions stretch far back into American history. General George Washington convened a precursor to a military commission - a board of inquiry - in 1780 to try a British major accused of conspiring with Benedict Arnold during the Revolutionary War. The board recommended to Washington that Major John Andre be executed, and he was promptly hanged. Military commissions' first documented use came during the Mexican-American War in 1847, when the U.S. Army occupied large areas of Mexico that lacked a working court system. Since then they've been used...