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(The Associated Press) Supporters and opponents of the health care law demonstrate outside the U.S. Supreme Court last week.

Analysts try to predict way court is going to rule after health care arguments

Last updated Sunday, April 1, 2012 - 7:29am

WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court justices can hide their intentions in plain sight, even with something as complicated as health care.

The judicial utterances during this past week's lengthy oral arguments left a common impression that the conservative-led court might strike down some or all of the 2010 health care law.

Unfortunately for the White House, these kinds of impressions can be valid clues.

"If you are a frequent attendee at the court, and you study the issues, and you know the justices' jurisprudence, you can know an awful lot from what happens at oral argument

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Civil War re-enactors perform a living history reenactment of the First Battle of Bull Run, Saturday, July 23, 2011, in Manassas, Va. Thousands of re-enactors have braved scorching heat to mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War's first major land battle, also known as the Battle of Manassas. Re-enactment events continue Sunday. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, P. Kevin Morley)

On its 150th, time to reflect on the Civil War

Michael Doyle McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Tuesday, July 26, 2011 - 10:18am

GETTYSBURG, Pa. -- Ulysses S. Grant beckoned.

Gray beard, blue coat, brown cigar; it was him, all right. The late, great Union Army general welcomed a visitor to his tent and explained himself.

"I am just a specter in the shadow of time," Grant said.

Surely, the whiskey was somewhere close. Everyone knows that story. But, no. Grant denounced the accounts of his drinking as libelous drivel, the work of scribbling hacks. People should know the truth, he said.

The truth, then.

Fact: This year kicks off the Civil War sesquicentennial, the 150th anniversary of the conflagration that recast the United States. At the least, it's an excuse to revisit some great adventures: the lost orders of Antietam, Gen. Pickett's doomed charge across open ground.

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National parks saw springtime lull in visits

Michael Doyle McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 6:46pm

WASHINGTON -- Go ahead, blame harsh weather or high gas prices for a marked reduction in visits to Yosemite and other national parks so far this year. The summer droves, though, are returning.

In other words, the time to really beat the crowds may have passed.

At traditionally popular parks from Yosemite and Yellowstone to Mount Rainier and the Great Smoky Mountains, visitation from January through May fell compared with last year, sometimes dramatically. The smaller crowds thrilled park visitors but worried the businesses that depend on them.

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Supreme Court upholds church demonstrations at funerals, 8-1

Michael Doyle McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Wednesday, March 2, 2011 - 11:35pm

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the right of Westboro Baptist Church to protest at military funerals with its virulent anti-gay message, which has provoked outrage across the country and along the political spectrum.

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President Barack Obama pets “Apple,” the National Thanksgiving turkey during a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on Wednesday. National Turkey Federation Chairman Yubert Envia (left) and first daughters, Sasha, (second from right) and Malia (right) watch.

Obama pardons two turkeys in annual Thanksgiving-eve event

McClatchy Newspapers, Michael Doyle

Last updated Wednesday, November 24, 2010 - 7:22pm

WASHINGTON -- A good-natured President Barack Obama on Wednesday spared the lives of two turkeys that played their own parts perfectly.

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Little usable physical evidence at Levy crime scene, technicians testify

McClatchy News Service, Michael Doyle

Last updated Wednesday, November 3, 2010 - 4:04pm

WASHINGTON -- The Chandra Levy murder scene lacked usable fingerprints, bloodstains or semen stains, FBI technicians said Wednesday morning.

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Levy defendant wrote about dead girl's pen pal says

McClatchy Newspapers, Michael Doyle

Last updated Tuesday, November 2, 2010 - 3:31pm

WASHINGTON -- The man accused of killing Chandra Levy told a prison pen pal that he was responsible for a "muchacha muerta" -- a dead girl -- according to testimony Tuesday afternoon.

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