Hartford Courant - Fri Jul 03

The Supreme Court's ruling on the New Haven firefighters case - that white firemen suffered illegal discrimination when a promotional test was thrown out because not enough blacks did well - will have no effect on Sonia Sotomayor 's nomination to the Supreme Court.

Hartford Courant - Fri Jul 03

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin abruptly announced Friday she is resigning from office at the end of the month, a shocking move that rattled the Republican party but left open the possibility she would seek a run for the White House in 2012.

Hartford Courant - Fri Jul 03

U.S. Marines moved into villages in Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan on Friday, meeting little resistance as they tried to win over local chiefs on the second day of the biggest American military operation here since the fall of the Taliban government in 2001.