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March is Clinton's month, former Obama aide says
Collision of elephants: Trump v. Apple
Obama, justices pay respects to Scalia
U.S. escalates fight with Apple over iPhone in attacks probe
Justice Antonin Scalia lies in repose at Supreme Court
Trump accused of financially threatening woman during secret deposition
Harper Lee, 'To Kill a Mockingbird' author, has died at 89
Trump: When I said we should go to war in Iraq, I 'wasn’t a politician'
Tech giants stand with Apple on FBI dispute
Clinton vows to move on immigration in first 100 days

March is Clinton's month, former Obama aide says

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Posted: 19 Feb 2016 01:22 PM PST

Republican bomb-thrower Donald Trump has upped the ante on his insult-everybody campaign by calling for a boycott of Apple (AAPL). Apple is embroiled in a dispute with the Justice Department over an encrypted iPhone belonging to one of the shooters in the San Bernardino massacre of Dec. 2. The FBI is demanding that Apple develop technology to unlock the phone, so they can investigate information the shooter may have stored there.

Obama, justices pay respects to Scalia

Posted: 19 Feb 2016 01:13 PM PST

President Barack Obama, the U.S. Supreme Court's eight remaining members, former law clerks and thousands of ordinary Americans paid respects to the late Justice Antonin Scalia on Friday as his body lay in repose in the stately, white-marble courthouse. The president and first lady Michelle Obama were greeted by Chief Justice John Roberts, spoke with some Scalia family members and briefly stood in silence, heads bowed, in front of Scalia's casket during an afternoon visit. Scalia, a staunch conservative and one of the court's most consequential justices during his three decades on the bench, died last Saturday at age 79 at a Texas hunting resort.

U.S. escalates fight with Apple over iPhone in attacks probe

Posted: 19 Feb 2016 01:52 PM PST

The US government Friday sought a court order to force Apple to help unlock an iPhone as part of the probe into last year's San Bernardino attacks, escalating a legal showdown over encryption. The motion brought by the Justice Department sought to counter Apple's claim that cooperating with the FBI probe would undermine overall security for its devices, and laid out the legal case for technical assistance. "The order does not, as Apple's public statement alleges, require Apple to create or provide a 'back door' to every iPhone," said the motion filed in a federal court in California.

Justice Antonin Scalia lies in repose at Supreme Court

Posted: 19 Feb 2016 01:36 PM PST

The body of justice Antonin Scalia was transferred Friday to the US Supreme Court, where President Barack Obama and hundreds of officials paid tribute to the conservative icon as he lies in repose. Scalia's flag-draped casket was installed at 9:30 am (1430 GMT) in the Supreme Court's Great Hall, after court police ceremoniously carried it up the building's iconic steps. Obama was among the thousands of people who are expected to pay their respect to the 79-year-old justice, who died of an apparent heart attack.

Trump accused of financially threatening woman during secret deposition

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Harper Lee, 'To Kill a Mockingbird' author, has died at 89

Posted: 19 Feb 2016 11:28 AM PST

Harper Lee, the elusive novelist whose child's-eye view of racial injustice in a small Southern town, "To Kill a Mockingbird," became standard reading for millions of young people and an Oscar-winning ...