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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate ethics committee on Friday admonished Democratic Sen. Roland Burris for misleading investigators about his maneuvering to get Barack Obama's old Senate seat from the governor who was ousted for trying to sell it. Burris ...

ZURICH, Switzerland — FIFA suspended Iraq from world football on Friday because of political interference in the national federation. Football’s world governing body said it was "unacceptable" for Iraq’s Olympic committee to disband the ...

The appeal court justices agrees that the IOC is the only body that can decide which events to include in the Olympics, and neither VANOC nor any Canadian government has the legal or practical power to depart from those decisions. "It is a case in ...

COLUMBIA, S.C.—South Carolina lawmakers plan to formally consider impeaching Gov. Mark Sanford for the first time next week, the chairman of the committee beginning that work said Friday. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Harrison told The ...

In a surprise, however, committee Chairman Barney Frank, D-Mass., delayed final action on a long-awaited regulatory overhaul bill until after Thanksgiving. Frank said members of the Congressional Black Caucus requested the delay because they were ...

Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin of Ill., center, accompanied by Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., left, and Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., speaks during a health care reform news conference on Capitol Hill in... (Associated Press) Senate Minority Leader Sen ...

Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Merck & Co., Inc. today announced the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines ... Commission, Merck would receive marketing authorization for ELONVA with unified labeling valid ...

A panel of Kansas University students has rejected a proposed policy change that would have allowed senior housing staff to enter rooms upon suspicion of a housing violation. The KU policy proposal would have allowed housing staffers to enter ...