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The Senate voted Monday to approve its version of the farm bill, a massive spending measure that covers everything from food stamps to crop insurance and sets the nation's farm policy for the next five years.

The Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court's order barring Maricopa County Sheriff's Officers from detaining people on the sole basis they are in the country illegally. MCSO lawyers had been hoping for a reversal while at the same time insisting they didn't intend to do the banned practice.

Barry Bonds was convicted of obstruction of justice Wednesday but a jury failed to reach a verdict on three other counts.

So who exactly comprises Progress Kentucky, the superPAC allegedly linked to the surreptitious recording of a meeting at Sen. Mitch McConnell's campaign headquarters& In the recording, an aide is heard disparaging actress Ashley Judd, who was then considering a Senate run to challenge the Senate's top Republican.

Mexican officials said the arrest of Jose de Jesus Mendez Vargas, aka "The Monkey," has dealt a lethal blow to the La Familia cartel, which has terrorized western Mexico. Mendez is accused of moving tons of cocaine, methamphetamines and marijuana to the U.S.

Advocates of proposed federal guidelines say advertisers often use subliminal messages and social media to influence teens to buy junk food. But food industry groups and ad firms say the overlap between teen and adult audiences makes the restrictions impractical.

This week federal investigators are preparing to hold hearings into the cause of the fatal blast in San Bruno, Calif., last September. Preliminary reports from federal investigators cast blame on defective welds in a 60-year-old pipeline.

Federal officials cannot stop all of the illicit drugs entering the country. So they teamed up with local cops to target vehicles smuggling drugs on highways across the southwest and beyond.

San Diego's medical research community has seen yet another sharp turn of federal policy on stem cells. A judge has stopped federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.

A report says the upstate New York region has the highest concentration of green jobs in the country. Another surprising name in the top 10: northeast Ohio. But critics say the numbers of jobs created are too few to justify the use of federal stimulus dollars.