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Update: Thanks to Instapundit and Memeorandum for the links. Please bear with us in that the site is getting more traffic than usual and the hamsters turning the wheels are getting tired. Update (II): Welcome readers from Legal Insurrection. Also I see now that Ace of Spades HQ caught the revision, but I guess wasn’t able to document it like I was able to. (I accidentally preserved a copy.) Also below DRJ provides a link to the official policies of the AP, including corrections. Basically they are supposed to report changes unless it is a live event in progress. So...

n a rare moment of drama in her confirmation hearings, Supreme Court Justice nominee Elena Kagan was forced to defend her revision of an obstetrician group's policy statement on partial-birth abortion while she was an adviser in the Clinton White House. As a Republican-controlled Congress in the 1990s debated whether to ban the controversial procedure, Kagan wrote a memo in which she expressed concern about a statement that the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologist was going to release that revealed its panel of experts found no circumstances in which the procedure was the only option for saving the life...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Los Angeles Police Department is tightening its policy on handling illegal immigrants to allow officers to check the status of suspected felons. If approved, the new rules would be a shift from a 1979 policy that prevents officers from inquiring about a person's immigration status to encourage illegal immigrants who had witnessed or been victims of crimes to cooperate with police without fear of deportation. Assistant Police Chief George Gascon said the proposal would direct officers to report suspected felons in the United States illegally to their supervisors, who would then consult with immigration officials....

U.S. Considers Revising Its Role in Iraq Friday August 8, 2003 1:09 AM By BARRY SCHWEID AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - With American troops under constant fire in Iraq, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday the U.S.-led military coalition may want to ``stand back a little'' and rely more on local forces to maintain security in the country. ``Iraqis have started to create security forces that will protect installations, so that you don't need a coalition military organization protecting that installation,'' Powell said. ``We have to be nimble, flexible, call audibles as the situation changes,'' he said at...