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PHOENIX - Arizona has become a national leader in the gun rights movement in recent years as the state enacted law after law to protect the people's right to bear arms nearly anywhere, at anytime.

The U.S. government has strongly protested to Vietnam over the treatment of an American diplomat, the ambassador said Thursday. A media report said the human rights officer was roughed up while trying to meet with a prominent dissident.

he state Senate and Assembly overwhelmingly passed the "Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights" today - a bipartisan piece of legislation supporters say would make up for an inadequate anti-bullying law that has been on the books for eight years.

Ireland's constitutional ban on abortion violates the rights of pregnant women to receive proper medical care in life-threatening cases, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday, harshly criticizing Ireland's long inaction on the issue.

PITTSBURGH - Braylon Edwards practiced all week motivated by the thought he might get a lot of chances this week. He was right.

We've all seen it. The driver inching down the road ahead of us, hunched over the steering wheel to peer through the 6-inch porthole his defroster has cleared on his iced-up windshield. And how many times have you been going 65 mph on Route 78 behind a vehicle when the glacier on its roof finally lets go, heading right for you? It's not just a good idea to clear your car of ice and snow before you head out; it's the law in New Jersey.

PENNSYLVANIA -- The 3rd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Pennsylvania ordered on Friday that the conflicting rulings in two student online speech cases be vacated and heard by the full court in June. This order nullifies the previous decisions, which were each made by panels of three judges each, and will replace them with decisions made by the entire panel of 3rd Circuit judges, after a hearing on June 3. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) represented the students in both cases, which were both ruled on Feb. 4. In the case Layshock v. Hermitage School District, a three-judge panel ruled in favor of high school student Justin Layshock on his First Amendment claim

TEXAS -- The newspaper adviser at Big Spring High School resigned May 28 after the principal pulled the last issue of the paper, which included an editorial advocating the legalization of marijuana. Steven Saldivar, superintendent of the Big Spring Independent School District, said the editorial conflicted with the district's policy of discouraging illegal drug use. Frank LoMonte, executive director of the Student Press Law Center, said that courts have ruled that the First Amendment protects political speech even in schools. "A political opinion urging a change in the law is absolutely the highest and most protected First Amendment speech," he said

updated 11/19/2010 11:52:32 AM ET 2010-11-19T16:52:32 Share Print Font: +-Michelangelo's David might have held a secret weapon in his overly large right hand, according to new controversial research into the towering depiction of the biblical hero who killed Goliath.

reathtaking 65-yard punt return for the winning touchdown on the final play of the game. The Eagles scored 28 points in the final 7:18 and beat the New York Giants 38-31 on Sunday, a bitter loss that revived memories of "The Miracle at the Meadowlands" in 1978.

EAST RUTHERFORD,N.J.- With 13 seconds left, DeSean Jackson never thought he'd get a chance to win the game. Matt Dodge was ordered by Giants coach Tom Coughlin to punt away from the Eagles' elusive return man.

SAN MARTIN TEXMELUCAN, Mexico - A massive oil pipeline explosion lay waste to parts of a central Mexican city Sunday, incinerating people, cars, houses and trees as gushing crude turned streets into flaming rivers. At least 28 people were killed, 13 of them children, in a disaster authorities blamed on oil thieves.

The release felt solid - the way it had all game - whether it was a silky jumper or violent dunk. This time, Amar'e Stoudemire stepped behind the 3-point arc, outside his normal range. The ball left his right hand and settled into the net, igniting the loudest roar Madison Square Garden had heard in years, the apparent game-winner at the buzzer topping Paul Pierce's apparent game-winner with 0.4 of a second left.