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New York City voters support the New York Police Department's anti-terrorism campaign even as provisions of it have come under criticism from civil rights groups who question the legality of how police target Muslims.

A little over a year ago, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi was on a mission. Along with a group of like-minded officials from other states, she was determined to be the first to test President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law at the U.S. Supreme Court. And she wanted to find the right lawyer to do it.

A former Rutgers University student, Dharun Ravi, who used a webcam to spy on his roommate's sexual encounter with another man and invited others to watch in a "viewing party" was simply engaging in the behavior of "a typical 18-year-old kid" and should not be punished for a hate crime, his lawyer said on Tuesday.