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The District's independent ethics board censured and fined D.C. Council member Marion Barry on Thursday for failing to disclose gifts he received from a city contractor. The Board of Ethics and Government Accountability imposed a $13,600 penalty on Mr. Barry, Ward 8 Democrat, for accepting the gifts from prohibited sources.

A tea party group that launched a petition drive to prosecute U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder reported on its Facebook page that nearly 1 million have signed on , and the movement is only growing by the minute. The petition from TheTeaParty.net states, in part: "A person is supposed to be innocent until proven guilty.

President Obama is on track to pass his golfing record from 2011 , 34 rounds for the year , said one conservative blogger who covers all things White House. Keith Koffler of White House Dossier said Mr. Obama hit 18 rounds at the year's halfway mark, June 30.

NEW YORK, We may never know exactly what Alex Rodriguez and Ryan Braun are being accused of in Major League Baseball's Biogenesis investigation , if they beat the rap. That's because details likely will be caught in a tangle of legal gymnastics involving MLB, the players' union and probably an arbitrator, who could rule no discipline is warranted.

A handful of demonstrators chanted and held signs at a courthouse in South Boston Wednesday to show support for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. In his first public appearance arrested April 19, Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty to 30 counts including use of a weapon of mass destruction to kill.

NEW YORK - Racially insensitive language hurt some cast members' reputations in the CBS game "Big Brother," but it may not have been bad for television ratings. Contestants on this season's "Big Brother" have been caught on the game's 24-hour-a-day Internet feed making boorish remarks, and some were seen Sunday on one of the show's television broadcasts.

The chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services said Wednesday that the Egyptian military's ouster of Islamist President Mohammad Morsi is a "coup" that should trigger suspension of aid to Egypt. "I believe it is a coup, and I believe the aid should be suspended," Sen. Carl M. Levin said at the Carnegie Endowment in Washington, noting that U.S.

Part of an ancient Egyptian king's sphinx was unveiled at a dig in northern Israel on Tuesday, and researchers are puzzled as to how it got there. The broken granite statue, including the paws and some of the forearms, is the first such find in the region, AFP reported.

The Pentagon said Wednesday that military promotions and bonuses could halt if automatic defense budget cuts, known as sequestration, are not reversed. In a letter to Congress, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel noted possible actions the Pentagon could take if $52 billion in automatic spending cuts become effective in the next fiscal year.

BOSTON , Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has pleaded not guilty to 30 counts including use of a weapon of mass destruction to kill. He entered the plea Wednesday in federal court in Boston. For first one, he leaned toward a microphone and said, "Not guilty," in a Russian accent. He then said not guilty repeatedly about a half-dozen more times.

The legal watchdog Judicial Watch announced today that it has obtained documents revealing the Community Relations Service (CRS), a unit of the Department of Justice, was deployed to Sanford, Fla., following the death of Trayvon Martin to help organize rallies against George Zimmerman.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday prodded House Republicans to take up an immigration bill , though she stopped short of calling for the chamber to pass the version that cleared the Senate last month. In a letter to Speaker John A. Boehner, Mrs.

A couple of lawmakers from Maryland and Texas are pushing for the creation of a new national park , on the moon. It would mark the Apollo lunar landing missions, 1969 to 1972, The Daily Caller reported. "Establishing the historical park ...

The Senate failed again on Wednesday to address student loan interest rates, which doubled July 1 and will boost the cost of college for millions of students heading into the fall academic term. ...

The basic elevator pitch for "Pacific Rim" is pretty simple: giant monsters versus giant robots! Without spoiling anything, I can tell you the winner right now: eight-year-old boys everywhere. The fact is that the real pitch is more like this: giant monsters versus giant robots versus your childhood imagination.