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The Supreme Court has turned down an appeal from a county sheriff who objects to transporting jail inmates for elective abortions. An Arizona sheriff wanted the justices to allow him to enforce a jail policy that bars transporting inmates for abortions without a court order. Arizona courts said the policy …

WASHINGTON – Santa Claus was there, too, but three children who attended a holiday reception at the White House on Monday preferred to climb up on a chair with President Bush and the first lady. The children were among the 150 fourth graders — most of them sons and daughters …

WASHINGTON – Congress on Thursday approved a one-month extension of the Patriot Act and sent it to President Bush in a pre-Christmas scramble to prevent many of its anti-terrorism provisions from expiring Dec. 31. The Senate, with only Sen. John Warner, R-Va., present, approved the Feb. 3 expiration date four …