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SAN FRANCISCO – A lawsuit challenging the Bush administration’s terrorist surveillance program must be dismissed because it threatens to reveal state secrets and jeopardize the War on Terror, the government says. The case was set to go before a federal judge in San Francisco on Friday. The Bush administration argues …

UNITED NATIONS – On April 27, 2005, a U.N. procurement officer named Alexander Yakovlev was working unusually late. At 11:23 p.m. he fired off an e-mail to a food service executive named Andy Seiwert, and by the next morning, something close to panic appeared to be spreading through some of …

CAMDEN, N.J. – Bruce Jackson walked into court Friday with a swagger, 15 inches taller and nearly 100 pounds heavier than the 45-pound teenager found foraging through a trash can for food less than two and a half years ago. With anger in his still high-pitched voice, the 21-year-old took …