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Mediation Resumes in NFL, Players Dispute

MINNEAPOLIS -- The NFL and its locked-out players started talking again, and they talked all day. The only sign of progress or productivity, though, was the nine hours or so both sides spent in the federal courthouse on Thursday. Sworn to secrecy about specifics of the court-ordered mediation, neither the league nor the...

Wal-Mart Sex-Bias Case Hits Possible Court Block

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court appears ready to block a massive sex discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart on behalf of up to 1.6 million women, and that could make it harder for other workers nationwide to bring class-action claims against large employers. The 10-year-old lawsuit, argued in lively exchanges at the...

Lockout, Decertification Leave NFL in Limbo

WASHINGTON -- All along, the NFL said it was certain the players' union would decertify and head to court. All along, the union insisted the league's owners were planning to lock out the players. And that's exactly what happened. Unable to decide how to divvy up $9 billion a year, NFL owners and players put the...

Players Head to Court as NFL Labor Talks Break Off

WASHINGTON -- Unable to decide how to divvy up $9 billion a year, NFL owners and players put the country's most popular sport in limbo Friday by breaking off labor negotiations hours before their contract expired. The union decertified, and 10 players, including MVP quarterbacks Tom Brady and Peyton Manning, sued the...

Westboro's 'Church of Hate' Leader Once Championed Civil Rights

Fred Phelps has been testing America's laws -- and patience -- for years, long before the Supreme Court today gave his anti-gay church group the OK to protest its gospel of hate at military funerals. But in the beginning, Phelps, now the 80-year-old pastor of the infamous Westboro Baptist Church, had a very different...