WASHINGTON — A federal judge has taken the rare step of ordering self-described anti-terrorism investigator Paul David Gaubatz to remove from his Web site some of the 12,000 documents that his son allegedly stole from the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly also ordered Gaubatz to return documents used in his book, "Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Seeking to Islamize America," which was co-authored by Paul Sperry and portrays the council as a subversive organization that's allied with international terrorists.

The 15-year-old nonprofit civil rights and advocacy organization says its goals are to "enhance understanding of Islam" and "empower American Muslims." » read more

WASHINGTON — Almost 24 centuries after the Greek philosopher Aristotle wrote his book, "On the Movement of Animals," modern scientists are still struggling to understand how, why, when and where living creatures move.

Whether an organism drifts in the sea, swims, wriggles, crawls, walks, runs, jumps, flies or casts its seeds upon the wind, movement is essential to life, they say. No matter how big or little it is, it's got to get away from its birthplace to find food, escape predators and reproduce.

"From microbes to trees to elephants . . . the movement of individual organisms is one of the most fundamental features of life on Earth," Ran Nathan, an ecologist at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, wrote in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "The rich variety of movement modes among microorganisms, plants and animals has fascinated mankind since time immemorial." » read more

WASHINGTON — As her fellow college graduates busy themselves with spamming every available e-mail inbox with resumes, 25-year-old Lizbeth Mateo keeps to the same Los Angeles coffee shop she's worked in for the past five years.

A native of Mexico and an undocumented immigrant who's lived in the U.S. for more than a decade, Mateo earned a bachelor's degree last year from California State University, Northridge. Though she said she'd like to find a job that would allow her to give back in some way to the low-income community where she grew up, Mateo's immigration status has put a cap on what she's able to achieve.

One could say that she's still waiting for a dream. "You're not allowed to work where you grow up or have a job that's related to your field," Mateo said of her undocumented status. » read more

Death is different.

With those words, a deeply divided U.S. Supreme Court in 2005 declared that the execution of adolescents was cruel and unusual punishment, and, hence, a violation of the U.S. Constitution. The ruling halted capital punishment for juveniles in 25 states.

On Monday, the lawyers for two Florida men who, as juveniles, were sentenced to life without parole for non-homicides will ask the nation's highest court to declare the practice of incarcerating juveniles for the rest of their lives cruel and unusual, as well. » read more

Leslie Lohse, leader of a small band of Indians in Tehama County, recently found herself speaking directly to President Barack Obama — one chief of state to another.

"It's pretty exciting that the president did follow through on his promise to summit with tribal leaders," Lohse said of her history-making conversation. "He respected our sovereignty and reassured us we do have a government-to-government relationship."

Lohse, leader of the 300-member Paskenta tribe of Nomlaki Indians that operates a casino near Corning, was one of several Northern California chiefs who met with Obama on Thursday at the largest-ever gathering of tribal leaders. » read more