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WASHINGTON - Companies using criminal records or bad credit reports to screen out job applicants might run afoul of anti-discrimination laws as the government steps up scrutiny of hiring policies that can hurt blacks and Hispanics.
PHOENIX - Gov. Jan Brewer said Friday that most illegal immigrants entering Arizona are being used to transport drugs across the border, an assertion that critics slammed as exaggerated and racist.

CHICAGO - The federal judge presiding over Rod Blagojevich's corruption trial has told his lawyers that a U.S.

CHICAGO - One phone recording has Rod Blagojevich talking of demons and former President Richard Nixon.
SAN FRANCISCO - Brian Hogan's world closed in fast almost as soon as he sold the next-generation iPhone he found in a Silicon Valley bar to a popular technology website for a stack of $100 bills, according to court documents released Friday.