announced a process for replacing two federal judges in Ohio. When President Bill Clinton nominated Marbley in 1997 to a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Marbley was only the second African American judge in the district.

A federal judge in New York on Tuesday set a trial date for April 14 in the libel lawsuit Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor, brought against The New York Times.

Sarah Palin and the New York Times have explored trying to settle the former Alaska governor and Republican U.S. vice presidential candidate's closely watched defamation case against the newspaper, their lawyers said on Tuesday.

A federal judge has set an April retrial date for Sarah Palin's libel case against The New York Times, even as lawyers on both sides for the first time said