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Feds arrest Birmingham, Ala., Mayor on bribery, fraud, other charges linked to sour bonds
Associated Press WriterBIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) _ The mayor of Alabama's largest city, Larry Langford, was arrested Monday on charges of steering millions of dollars of bond work to a friend in exchange for more than $230,000 in bribes that paid his debts for flashy clothes,...Tags: Trials, Birmingham , Bankruptcy, Barack Obama, Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama)
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Rare raid on Britain's Parliament sets off debate on lawmakers' privacy
Associated Press WriterLONDON (AP) _ A decision by London's anti-terror police to arrest a lawmaker and raid his offices in an inquiry into the leaking of sensitive documents has triggered a passionate debate about democracy and the historic rights of Parliament in Britain....Tags: Elizabeth II, Laws, George Bush, Lower House, Government Ministers
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Romania: parliamentary election results show leading parties less than a point apart
Associated Press WriterBUCHAREST, Romania (AP) _ Romania's parliamentary election results Monday showed the centrist and leftist parties less than a percentage point apart with more than 99 percent of the vote counted, raising the prospect of tough negotiations to form a...Tags: National Government, Government, Parliament
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Canadian opposition to discuss who leader will be
Associated Press WriterCanada's main opposition party said Stephane Dion will become the next prime minister of the country and said all the opposition parties have agreed to topple Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government. The opposition Liberals, New...Tags: National Government, Government, Imperial and Royal Matters, Forestry and Timber, Elizabeth II
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China's manufacturing slows in November as downturn deepens; food price controls lifted
AP Business WriterBEIJING (AP) _ China's manufacturing activity contracted sharply in November as a downturn in the world's fourth-largest economy worsened, raising the threat of politically volatile job losses, according to data reported Monday. Also Monday, the...Tags: Employees, Market and Exchange, Vehicles, Sales, Food Industry
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Dissident poet is allowed to speak, but Egypt's leaders aren't listening
Iman Bakry has a fortuneteller's voice, husky and cracked. It coaxes you into her colloquial poems, which once were about romance, but have since shifted to a cutting critique of President Hosni Mubarak's government and an Egypt plagued by self-doubt,...Tags: Censorship, Poetry, Genetics, Tourism and Leisure, Heads of State
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The real scandal over D.C. schools
Hypocrisy is an overblown sin. Better to be a hypocrite who occasionally violates his principles than a villain who never does. I bring this up because the usual, and entirely expected, round of conservative complaints about Barack Obama's public-schools...Tags: National Government, Government, Washington Post Company, Barack Obama, The White House
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Lake Worth politics: Change gives mandate to Jennings
In March of 2007, long before political mantras forecast a tornado of change, and far before anyone considered which change they could believe in, residents of Lake Worth decided to make a change of their own. Voters moved the city's municipal...Tags: Bodies of Water, Oceans, Executive Branch, Government, Local Elections
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Steering the nation from the center, Obama will face a strong force pulling left
Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) _ Barack Obama promises to steer the nation straight again. He better be ready for a strong force pulling left. The president-elect drew plenty of support from moderates, but the liberal side of the Democratic Party followed him most...Tags: Medical Research, Genetics, Global Change, John McCain, Democratic Party
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Political kingmaker didn't mind doing hard work
keith.herbert@newsday.comFor a political kingmaker, Joseph Margiotta did a lot of work usually done by pawns, those who knew him well said yesterday. When it came to knocking on doors, making phone calls and getting people to the polls on Election Day, no one worked harder...Tags: National Government, Garden City (Garden City, New York), Corporate Crime, Kemp Hannon, Government
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California has a new clout in Congress
Under President Bush, California Democrats often felt like Rodney Dangerfield.
But with Barack Obama headed to the White House -- giving their party control of both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue for the first time in 14 years -- lawmakers from one of the...Tags: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Burbank (Los Angeles, California), Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, California), Emergency Incidents, Beverly Hills
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The political legacy of Joseph Margiotta
dan.janison@newsday.comPolitical parties, like prominent American families, rise up only to drift downward. Chief executives of all kinds are products of when they rule. Their legacies don't last. Joseph Margiotta - a legend whether you admired him or not - has passed away...Tags: National Government, Government, Hempstead (Hempstead, New York), Nassau Coliseum, Election Day
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