Ravi faces a 15-count indictment of hate crime charges

A second student charged, Molly Wei, 19, pled not guilty earlier this month in two counts of invasion of privacy. She reached a plea deal agreeing to testify against Ravi, who allegedly set up the room's camera. Should Wei complete a three-year program on cyberbullying and alternate and cultural lifestyles, as well as 300 hours of community services without any additional legal troubles, the invasion of privacy charges for allegedly watching the video will be dropped, the prosecutors office said.

In October, less than a month after Clementi's suicide, President Barack Obama released a taped video message condemning such acts. "You are not alone," the president said. "You did not do anything wrong.

"Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act." The proposed law would require schools that receive federal student aid "to create policies prohibiting the harassment of any student," said Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-New Jersey.

Besides capital murder

has said that once all the facts are known, it will become clear his client is innocent.

The cause of Caylee's death was homicide by undetermined means, meaning there is no cause of death, she said.

(Caylee's) killer prepared some substance in advance that would render her physically unable to resist," prosecutor Jeff Ashton said at a December 2009 hearing, "administered the substance, awaited its effect and then methodically applied three pieces of duct tape to completely cut off the flow of air through her mouth or her nose and let nature take its course."

Anthony's high-powered defense team, fighting to save her life, will likely try to cast doubt on prosecutors' scientific evidence. At pretrial hearings, they have argued that evidence regarding a potential odor of decomposition in the trunk, chloroform and other evidence is not reliable enough for jurors to consider.

Perhaps the biggest hurdle for the defense is the fact that Caylee had been missing for 31 days before authorities were aware of it

The car also poses a huge obstacle for the defense, with evidence of chloroform found inside along with hair that potentially showed signs of decomposition, she said.

Anthony alleged her father and brother sexually abused her in a letter from jail last year.

Security footage showed hospital employees and other patients appearing to ignore Green when she slumped out of a chair and began to convulse on the floor.

In 2008, the New York Civil Liberties Union alleged hospital records were falsified to show Green had been "sitting quietly in the waiting room" a little more than 10 minutes after she had stopped moving and 48 minutes after she slid to the floor.

Aviles was found inside the car and his sister was found dead just outside the car door.

recently gave birth to twins

The U.S. “lacks a credible plan, in the medium term, to reduce its budget deficit,”

President Barack Obama holds a town hall-style meeting at Facebook headquarters in San Francisco.

"We have our suspicions, but at this time it would be unfair to state those," he said. "I believe they were there of their own volition."

Democrats said that under the agreement, the budget measure would not include provisions sought by Republicans to limit environmental regulations and to restrict financing for Planned Parenthood and other groups that provide abortions. But Mr. Boehner said in a statement that the agreement included a restriction on abortion financing in Washington.

both sides gave ground in reaching the bargain and that some of the cuts accepted by Democrats “will be painful.”

We did it because it has been hard to arrive at this point.

largest real dollar spending cut in American history.”

The developments came after Republicans and Democrats spent the day blaming each other for what could have been the first lapse in government services brought on by Congress in 15 years.

Recruits were allegedly charged initiation fees ranging from $300 to $450, with annual renewal fees of $120

Deng also allegedly instructed them to report to his office in the Los Angeles suburb of Temple City -- which authorities said was decorated to look like an official U.S. military recruiting center -- to undergo training and indoctrination, according to prosecutors.

he would face up to eight years and four months in state prison.

found child pornography on a computer, prosecutors said. He is set for arraignment in that case April 18 and would face up to three years in state prison if convicted.

two primary agencies that will oversee any merger — the Federal Communications Commission and the Justice Department’s antitrust division — look at it with different goals in mind.

more competition among wireless companies,

For example, one objective involves pushing the big wireless companies to allow smaller competitors to use their networks for data roaming services.

t that the company reached with U.S. authors and publishers would "grant Google significant rights to exploit entire books, without permission of the copyright owners."

few weeks is not responsible, and it puts our economic progress in jeopardy."

rty Caucus, called the two-week bill "a disappointing failure on the part of both parties to seriously address the economic meltdown we face from our massive deficit and growing national debt."

olution represents a concession that Congress has failed at one of its most basic duties: to establish a fiscal blueprint for the nation. Last year, the Democrat-led body not only didn't pass a budget but also failed to approve a single appropriations bill,

would cost 700,000 jobs.

On Thursday, the Wisconsin Senate dispatched state troopers to the homes of the senators who have vowed to stay in Illinois until Walker negotiates on the budget bill. The troopers were unable to find any of the lawmakers.

Democrats who had fled the state were abandoning their duties.

But Pentagon officials acknowledge that most cases go unreported — and of those that do, department figures indicate less than one in four ever get criminally prosecuted.

"We're talking about changing the way people think and the way people feel … the research tells us it takes eight to ten years to change the culture."

who says that after a night of partying,

Suffering from depression as a result of the experience, she gained 30 pounds and was eventually assigned to a weight-loss training program.

Albertson, Havrilla and Gallagher all believed their military commanders never took their complaints as seriously as they should have.

say discretionary spending rose by 24 percent over the past two years

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improved

Congress can make Americans buy anything that Congress wants

This includes cutting the nondefense federal workforce by 15 percent

National Endowment for the Arts ($167.5 million)

economic aid to Egypt ($250 million).

“reckless in terms of its impact on the economy and jobs.”