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...House is plunging into the fray for 2010's elections regardless. The President and his top aides have intervened in races in at least half a dozen states, most recently urging unpopular New York Governor David Paterson not to seek re-election. (Paterson still cordially greeted Obama in Albany Sept. 21.) Congressional redistricting in 2010 makes statehouse control key, though some say the politicking looks crass. Former GOP guru Karl Rove called Paterson's treatment by the White House "ham-handed...
Former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin appeared in court Sept. 21 to face charges of slandering President Nicolas Sarkozy in an attempt to improve his chances in France's 2007 presidential election. The trial hinges on a convoluted case--l'affaire Clearstream--in which French officials, including Sarkozy, were falsely accused of stashing kickback money from arms deals in Clearstream, a Luxembourg bank. Villepin, who could face up to five years in prison, said he expects to be exonerated...
Deposed President Manuel Zelaya stole back into Honduras Sept. 21 and holed up at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, bringing to a head the political crisis that has engulfed the country since his June ouster. Zelaya, whom the international community still considers Honduras' legitimate leader, called for talks with the new government, as thousands of his supporters camped outside the embassy and clashed with police...
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Authorities in New Haven, Conn., wrapped up their investigation into the brutal slaying of a Yale University medical student. Police charged Raymond Clark III, a laboratory technician, with strangling Annie Le, 24, on Sept. 8 in the Yale lab where they both worked. Her body was found in a crawl space behind a wall five days later, on what was to be her wedding day. That heartrending coincidence and Le's promising future helped attract national attention to the Ivy League crime...