DENVER — A problem that rendered as many as 10,000 U.S. military GPS receivers useless for days is a warning to safeguard a system that enemies would love to disrupt, a defense expert says.

HONOLULU — Gov. Linda Lingle, who has a civil unions bill on her desk, has been reading about Gov. John A. Burns — a devout Catholic who in 1970 let a bill allowing abortion become law — as she decides whether to sign, veto, or allow the bill to become law without her signature.

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