LITTLE ROCK — Sen. Mitch McConnell
of Kentucky, the Republican leader in the Senate, called on Democrats to extend all of the Bush-era tax cuts that are scheduled to expire Dec. 31, saying in the GOP’s weekly radio and Internet address that Americans “don’t think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.”
The Rev. Cedric Miller, 48, a New Jersey pastor who said Facebook was a “portal to infidelity” and told married church leaders to delete their accounts or resign, testified in a criminal case in 2003 that he had a three-way sexual relationship with his wife and a male church assistant, the Asbury Park Press of Neptune reported.
Alan Garcia, the Peruvian president, announced that Yale University has agreed to return thousands of artifacts taken away from the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu nearly a century ago.
Michael Hunnicutt, 20, was arrested in Atlanta over allegations that he gunned down Tavarus Erving, 18, because he believed Erving splattered his Mercedes with eggs in a Halloween prank.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., whose state leads the nation in production of cherries and blueberries, will be the next chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, replacing Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, who lost her bid for re-election this year.
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a four-term Missouri congressman and Kansas City’s former mayor, was elected chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, a contingent of 42 House Democrats who all won re-election this month.
Fidel Castro, 84, told Cuban students that he is happy with the direction Cuba is taking under the leadership of his brother Raul, who has warned countrymen that the state can no longer afford to pay idle workers and must cut many subsidies that Cubans have come to expect.
Marcello Dell’Utri, a senator in Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s People of Freedom Party, dismissed as a “fairy tale” a Sicilian appeals court’s ruling in June that he served as a kind of “mediator” between Mafia bosses and Berlusconi in the years before the premier entered politics.
Dianne Wilkerson, a Democratic former Massachusetts state senator and a native of Pine Bluff, Ark., who was captured on video stuffing bribe money into her sweater and bra, is looking at a potential four-year prison sentence, according to a sentencing memorandum filed in court by prosecutors.
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