WASHINGTON — After a series of Republican ethics allegations, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee launched HouseOfScandal.com on Monday. The website will feature the Republican members of Congress who have faced scandals and ethics questions since the GOP won the House in 2010. In a statement released Sunday, the DCCC contrasted the allegedly ethically-challenged politicians with House Speaker John Boehner’s [...]
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — President Barack Obama signed the long-debated patent reform bill into law on Friday, finally ending a seven-year nightmare for innovation advocates who had initially hoped to significantly overhaul the patent system. Obama has repeatedly said the bill will spur job growth, a characterization that has been challenged by patent experts. “It really doesn’t [...]
The U.S. Attorney’s Office issued a statement Thursday in response to news reports about former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s possible sentence: “The government has not recommended a sentence publicly or privately, not withstanding news reports to the contrary. The government has submitted a calculation of the advisory sentencing guidelines, as it is required to do [...]
WASHINGTON — Texas Governor Rick Perry’s ties to Swiss banking giant UBS go beyond his relationship with former Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas). Perry’s current chief of staff and top press person for his campaign, Ray Sullivan, spent five years as a lobbyist for UBS in Texas — a tenure that began the same year Gramm [...]
TERESOPOLIS, Brazil (AP) — When the avalanche of mud swept through Vanessa Silva’s neighborhood, it punched out the front wall of her house and poured right into her kitchen and bathroom. Six months later, the mess of brick, twisted metal and dirt is still there. Silva and her family are still camping with friends, while [...]
Hosni Mubarak, the former Egyptian president, has appeared in court to face charges of corruption and the unlawful killing of protesters during the revolution that forced him from power. “I categorically deny all the charges,” Mubarak said at the trial, held in the capital Cairo, on Wednesday. The ousted president spoke from a hospital stretcher where he lay [...]
The Tunisian court sentenced ousted President Zine el Abidine Bill Ali and the wife in order to Thirty-five many years in prison within absentia on Monday after a one-day trial upon problem costs. Bill Ali and his spouse, Leila Trabelsi, happen to be residing in exile within Saudi Arabic because the January revolt which finished [...]
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