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On Sept. 9, about a month before the U.S. Supreme Court officially kicked off its 2009-2010 term, the justices assembled to rehear a closely watched case about corporate campaign spending. Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission involves a nonprofit group that wanted to use corporate funding to distribute a film harshly critical of Hillary ...

NAME — Kenneth R. Feinberg. AGE — 63, born Oct. 23, 1945, in Brockton, Mass. EXPERIENCE — Obama administration "pay czar" for financial bailout program, June 2009 to present. He is serving without pay, as he did as special master of Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Fund of 2001; founded the Feinberg Group LLP, law firm ...

In the wake of the 2000 presidential elections, Americans were introduced to terms such as “butterfly ballot” and “dangling chad” because Florida’s vote was hung up by faulty ballots and antiquated voting machines. The notorious butterfly ballot required voters to punch holes along a ...

9 a.m. Columbia University forum on "Challenging the Frontiers of Humanitarianism in Colombia, the South Caucuses and Iraq"; Kellogg Center, Room 1501, International, Affairs Building, 420 W. 118th St., at Amsterdam Avenue. 10 a.m. NYC Human Rights Commissioner Patricia Gatling hosts forum on reconciling diversity and community in the 21st Century; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ...