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The U.S. Supreme Court said Tuesday it would weigh whether Secret Service agents were liable for distancing protesters from President George W. Bush.

In October 2004, toward the end of the presidential campaign, Bush was expected to stay at a cottage a short distance from the Jacksonville Inn in Jacksonville, Ore.

Pro-Bush and anti-Bush demonstrators were nearby.

Police in LeClaire, Iowa, said it was unclear how much fuel spilled into the Mississippi River when a towboat sank off the city's shoreline.

The U.S. Coast Guard said it received a report Monday afternoon of the sinking of the 144-foot towboat. Nine crewmembers were on board when the towboat hit a submerged object near LeClaire, Iowa. All aboard were able to get off the vessel safely.

The Coast Guard estimates 100,000 gallons of petroleum products, or about 2,300 barrels, were on board the sunken vessel.

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to consider religious objections made by corporations to a provision of Obamacare requiring employers to provide health insurance that covers birth control.

Oral arguments will likely be scheduled for March, with a ruling due by June.

The so-called contraception mandate of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, requires employers to provide health insurance policies that include preventive services for women that include access to contraception and sterilization.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott's chief elections official issued an order Monday to all 67 elections supervisors that imposes new restrictions on how and where voters can return completed absentee ballots.

Secretary of State Ken Detzner said people who vote by mail should return ballots to elections offices only, calling for an end to remote dropoff sites used as a convenience for voters. He said his directive is necessary to maintain uniformity in how election laws are carried out.

"Supervisors should not solicit return of absentee ballots at any place other than a supervisor's office, except for the purpose of having the absentee ballot canceled if the voter wants to vote in person," Detzner wrote.

In the early stages of the ‘War on Terror,’ CIA agents at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility turned detainees into double agents, helping the US to track and kill terrorists, according to US officials.

For some Gitmo detainees, held prisoner on a US military base in the middle of shark-infested waters, the promise of freedom in return for helping the CIA root out terrorists back home may have proven too much of a temptation.

In addition to winning their freedom, co-conspirators were granted safety guarantees for their families, and millions of dollars from the agency's secret war chest, sources told AP.

Algorithms that predict stock-price movements have transformed Wall Street. Algorithms that chomp through our Web histories have transformed marketing. Until quite recently, however, few people seemed to believe this data-driven approach might apply broadly to the labor market.

But it now does. According to John Hausknecht, a professor at Cornell’s school of industrial and labor relations, in recent years the economy has witnessed a “huge surge in demand for workforce-analytics roles.”

A federal judge ruled on Friday that targets of the NYPD's surveillance of Muslims can probe the department's files.

Brooklyn U.S. District Judge Pamela Chen's order comes at an early phase of a lawsuit against the NYPD, one of three such ongoing legal efforts. It will allow the plaintiffs in the case, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, to make extensive legal discovery that could bolster their allegations that the department has engaged in unconstitutional spying.

A Yemeni man being held as a "forever" war prisoner at Guantanamo made a secret plea for freedom in the first session of the Obama administration parole board seen as a step toward closing the war-on-terror prison camps in Cuba.

Mahmud al Mujahid, 33, donned a white tunic to argue by video feed from the prison Wednesday to the so-called Periodic Review Board meeting in Washington, D.C.