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Former Texas Governor Bill Clements, who was the state's first Republican governor since Reconstruction when he took office in 1979, has died at the age of 94.

Faced with a legal and media onslaught, Dominique Strauss-Kahn is pulling together a crack team of investigators, former spies and media advisers to fight back against charges he sexually assaulted a hotel chambermaid.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says she received nearly $1.2 million to write a memoir of her rise from a South Bronx housing project to the nation's highest court.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the longest serving chief executive in the state's history and a politician who has never lost an election, said Friday he will consider seeking the Republican nomination for president.

After just 2 1/2 weeks of testimony, truncated evidence and curtailed questioning, prosecutors said they expect to rest their case on Thursday in the retrial of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

Former New York state controller Alan Hevesi, apologizing for his acts of “shame,” was sentenced Friday to one to four years in prison for his leading role in an influence-peddling scandal at the state’s massive pension fund.

R. Sargent Shriver was honored Saturday as much for his passion for helping others as his loving hugs and enjoyment of baseball.

Kwame M. Kilpatrick, the former mayor of Detroit imprisoned on a probation violation, was charged under a federal racketeering law.

Richard C. Holbrooke, the high-octane diplomat who spearheaded the end of the Bosnian war and most recently served as the Obama administration's point man in the volatile Afghan-Pakistani war zone, has died, officials said.

One of the best known -- and most controversial -- public figures of recent years, who said he never used e-mail, is now a devotee of social media, and is using it as a means of re-emerging in public after several years of low-profile life.