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ust days after he was indicted on federal charges of using illegal campaign donations to conceal his mistress from voters, the U.S. Marshals Service on Wednesday released the mugshots of former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C). Edwards, who was the 2004 Democratic vice presidential nominee, pleaded not guilty to the charges. The six-count indictment triggered immediate criticism from a range of campaign finance and legal experts, who said the government’s case is unprecedented and appears weak. They questioned whether it would survive the fierce defense being mounted by Edwards’s lawyers, who contend that his actions did not constitute a crime.

An image taken from the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's PanCam at the spacecraft's landing site shows the nearby hills named after the crew of Apollo 1--Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee.

Oops he did it again. When asked to name and provide the number of federal departments he’d eliminate as president, Texas Gov. Rick Perry managed to list three, but they weren’t the three agencies he consistently names on the stump or that he attempted to name when he committed his now infamous “oops” moment. “Three right off the bat, you know, commerce, interior and energy are three that you think,” Perry said during a radio interview with Bill Edwards on WTKS Radio in Savannah. Perry made no mention of the Department

If you haven't heard the sad news by now, Rap Pioneer Heavy D passed away on Tuesday November 8, 2011 after collapsing outside of his condo in Beverly Hills.

400 years after Hudson found New York harbor, Eric Sanderson shares how he made a 3D map of Mannahatta's fascinating pre-city ecology of hills, rivers, wildlife -- accurate down to the block -- when Times Square was a wetland and you couldn't get delivery.

Rep. Edward Acevedo (D-Chicago), a state representative since 1997 and Illinois House’s assistant majority leader had a handgun pointed at him in the Lower West Side’s area of Chicago. 47 year old Acevedo won re-election last November after running unopposed. The motive....

Three of the four Washington, D.C. lobbying firms Facebook had hired abruptly terminated their contracts with the social networking giant. Citing conflicts of interest, Fierce, Isakowitz & Blalock, the Glover Park Group and TeleMedia Policy Group have all walked away from contracts with Facebook, which upped its spending on lobbying efforts to $1.4 million last year from $351,000 in 2010. While all of the firms and Facebook declined comment, Politico is reporting that the firms are siding with content providers over Internet firms in the growing battle on Capitol Hill.

As a veteran of Capitol Hill, Peter Loge knows the art of working with some ... Loge, who served as deputy to the chief of staff for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), the chief of staff for Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) and as senior adviser on ...

When she unfurled the banner Saturday that retired her jersey number at St. Edward's University ... America basketball player at the Catholic school on Congress Avenue. She'd wondered how different her life and 18-year career in professional basketball ...

By Sunday night, television satellite trucks had already been put into position around the small federal courthouse here, although many in this city, about an hour's drive from Mr. Edwards home in Chapel Hill ... after securing Mr. Edward's indictments ...

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said he’d try to lure jobs from Illinois ... Wisconsin and Illinois says more about politics than economics, said Edward Hill, an economist at Cleveland State University in Ohio. “Illinois has a debt ...