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Gu Kailai, the wife of the disgraced political leader Bo Xilai, has been indicted for intentional homicide, in a crime that has triggered China’s most serious political crisis in decades. The official Xinhua news agency on Thursday evening published a brief dispatch announcing that Ms. Gu and an aide employed by the family had been formally charged in the poisoning death of the Briton, Neil Heywood, 41, whose body was found last November in a hotel in Chongqing, the sprawling municipality Mr. Bo led until his downfall.

Bob Greene says we wouldn't tolerate workers we'd hired for a job in our home fighting about the work and not getting anything done. Why do we accept it from government officials?

Canadian police are hunting a self-proclaimed porn star who they say killed and dismembered a student, mailed the body parts to police and politicians, and put a video of the act on the Internet.

From Richard Nixon -- "I'm not a crook" -- to John Edwards -- "The story is false ... ridiculous," those in power often lie, and voters often let them get away with it.

The Washington of conventional wisdom and the real Washington are two entirely different places. The Washington of conventional wisdom is overrun by well-paid insiders — lobbyists, lawyers, publicists — who systematically manipulate government policies to benefit corporations and the rich, defying the “will of the people.” The real Washington has government paid for by the rich and well-to-do. Benefits go mainly to the poor and middle class, while politicians of both parties live in fear that they might offend the “will of the people” — voters.

The answer is no. And that goes for presidential candidates too.

John Edwards walked his daughter Cate, 29, down the aisle today as she married her Princeton University sweetheart, Trevor Upham, 30. A 4 p.m. ceremony at United Methodist Church was followed by a reception on the lawn at the Edwards' home, reports People.com. An altar candle in the church was lit in memory of Cate's mom, Elizabeth Edwards, who died 10 months ago from breast cancer. "We want this to be really happy and joyous and that's what my mother would want," Cate, 29, told People in the days before the wedding.

Joe McGinniss' revelations are undermined by the use of unnamed sources and the inherent difficulty of writing instant history.There's a not-so-subtle agenda underpinning Joe McGinniss' "The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin," although it's never made explicit until late in the book. "The time has come to strike the tent," McGinniss begins the closing chapter.

Rep. David Wu could be eligible for pension and benefits worth more than $1 million in his lifetime, according to an analysis by the National ...

Politicians are using redistricting battles to advance their own agendas — ones that often have nothing to do with Latino representation.