A federal judge stepped into the fight over Arizona's immigration law at the last minute Wednesday, blocking the heart of the measure and defusing a confrontation etween police and thousands of activists that had been building for months.


| BCNN1.com: |
U.S. A federal judge stepped into the fight over Arizona's immigration law at the last minute Wednesday, blocking the heart of the measure and defusing a confrontation etween police and thousands of activists that had been building for months.
![]() CNN's Tom Foreman shares details and a clip from Pres. Obama's appearance on 'The View', airing Thursday morning.
The W.E.B. DuBois Institute is an innovative summer study program that seeks to address economic disparity.
The city of New York has agreed to pay more than $7 million to settle a civil lawsuit stemming from the fatal 50-bullet police shooting of an unarmed man on his wedding day.
![]() CNN's Larry King talks to the founder of WikiLeaks about documents he says reveal evidence of war crimes in Afghanistan.
![]() CNN's Adriana Hauser reports on one immigrant's story of surviving modern-day slavery and living to see better days.
![]() Former USDA employee, Shirley Sherrod reunites with the white family who credited her with helping them save their farm.
![]() HLN's Richelle Carey talks to entertainer Steve Harvey about his passion for helping young people.
![]() Black farmers have been awarded nearly a billion dollars from the government, but when will Congress hand out the money?
Howard Kurtz discusses the media coverage of the Black Panther case with Bob Schieffer, Roland Martin and Jim Geraghty.
Police say eight people were wounded in a burst of gunfire in downtown Indianapolis during the Indiana Black Expo and two more in separate shootings that followed.
Tests continue in the Gulf on the oil well cap and no one is declaring victory or failure. Even President Barack Obama is cautioning the public "not to get too far ahead of ourselves".
After 85 days and up to 184 million gallons, BP finally gained control over one of America's biggest environmental catastrophes Thursday by placing a carefully fitted cap over a runaway geyser that has been gushing crude.
![]() Tea Party Express spokesman Mark Williams fires back at the NAACP.
![]() President Obama's HIV/AIDS plan focuses on prevention, improving HIV treatment and narrowing health disparities.
At the 101st annual NAACP convention on Monday, first lady Michelle Obama spoke about her "Let's Move" campaign to cut childhood obesity. "We need to take this issue seriously," she told the crowd.
Robotic submarines removed the cap from the gushing well in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, beginning a period of at least two days when oil will flow freely into the sea.
![]() Two activists speak with CNN's Don Lemon about scientists having possibly found the basis for a HIV vaccine.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates asserted to reporters he never heard Gen. Stanley McChrystal make negative remarks about President Obama or any civilian leaders similar to the ones reported in a Rolling Stone magazine article.
![]() Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle announces her decision to veto a bill that would give same-sex couples the right to marry.
|