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Excerpt As it emerges as our country's first national police force, Michael Chertoff's Department of Homeland Security is becoming notorious for abuses of power — and even depraved crimes against children. The school day had ended and the parking lot at Englewood Elementary was full of energetic kids eager to go home when Leander Pickett saw a late model car obstructing the school bus loading zone. Pickett, a teacher's assistant at the Jacksonville, Florida, grade school, strolled over to the car, which had made a wrong turn into an exit lane, and told its occupants they had to move. Pickett's...

A woman accused of heckling Chinese President Hu Jintao during a White House appearance this week was charged Friday in federal court with a misdemeanor of willfully intimidating, coercing threatening and harassing a foreign official. ADVERTISEMENT Wang Wenyi, 47, had obtained temporary press credentials as a reporter for a Falun Gong newspaper and positioned herself on a camera stand. According to Secret Service translations provided in court documents, she shouted in Chinese: "Stop oppressing the Falun Gong," as well as "Your Time is running out," and "Anything you have done will come back to you in this lifetime." She also...

60 agents hired; MADD lends hand The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission is saturating bars in the Abilene and San Angelo areas to arrest people for public intoxication, and bar or nightclub employees who sell alcohol to drunken customers. The TABC campaign will continue through September 2006, said Lt. Randy Motz said. ''We are meeting with retailers. We are not playing sneak attacks,'' Motz said. ''If we don't arrest a bunch of people, then that's fine. But we will do what we can to get them before they get in their car intoxicated.'' Heather Hodges, an Abilene-based MADD victims advocate, said...