WOMAN IN BERLUSCONI SEX TRIAL DENOUNCES TACTICS
By NICOLE WINFIELD and LUCA BRUNO Karima el-Mahroug, also known as Ruby, a Moroccan woman at the center of ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s sex-for-hire trial, wipes away a tear as she…
Political scandals
OBAMA GIVES SECRET SERVICE ITS 1ST FEMALE DIRECTOR
By JULIE PACE This undated handout photo provided by the US Secret Service shows Secret Service agent Julia Pierson. President Barack Obama will appoint the veteran Secret Service agent as…
CHICAGO DEMOCRAT CONVICTED OF TAX CHARGES
By MICHAEL TARM FILE – In this March 2, 2012 file photo, Cook County Commissioner William Beavers, left, speaks to reporters, as his attorney Sam Adam Jr. listens, after Beavers’…
EX-MAYOR CONVICTED IN BELL, CALIF., CASE
By JOHN ROGERS FILE – This Jan. 24, 2013 file photo, former Bell, Calif., city officials appear for a massive city corruption trial in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom. Verdicts…
FLA. CHARITY PROBE TO NEXT FOCUS ON CAMPAIGN MONEY
By MIKE SCHNEIDER and GARY FINEOUT Lt. Governor Jennifer Carroll speaks about the 1,578-acre land acquisition for Camp Blanding in Clay County in front of the Florida Cabinet Thursday, March…
CHINA’S POLITICAL ADVISERS PLEDGE FEALTY TO PARTY
By GILLIAN WONG Delegates line up to cast their votes during a plenary session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference held at the Great Hall of the People in…