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White House press secretary Jen Psaki Monday defended U.S. track and field star Gwen Berry's decision to turn her back on the nation's flag, saying Berry was seeking to "peacefully protest" the moments that Americans "haven’t lived up to our highest ideals." Berry, 31, placed third over the weekend in the hammer throw during the U.S. Olympic trials, earning her a spot on the team. As the National Anthem was played, she turned from the flag. "This weekend, Gwen Barry, who hopes to represent the United States as an Olympian on the hammer throwing events, won a bronze medal at...

Joe Biden's wandering hands and obsessive sniffing habits just cannot be curbed, it seems. Even after he admitted that his actions (obsessively smelling the heads of small children and grabbing and kissing people who didn't ask to be kissed) is creepy and weird and he vowed to stop it, he apparently can't. Here he is on the campaign trail, weirding out other people's kids.

Presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani hired a Catholic priest to work in his consulting firm months after the priest was accused of sexually molesting two former students and an altar boy and told by the church to stop performing his priestly duties. The priest, Monsignor Alan Placa, a longtime friend of Giuliani and the priest who officiated at his second wedding to Donna Hanover, continues to work at Giuliani Partners in New York, to the outrage of some of his accusers and victims' groups, which have begun to protest at Giuliani campaign events. "This man did unjust things, and he's being...

Forget the "No Spin Zone"--this battle's turning into Hardball. The producer who launched a sensational $60 million sexual harassment lawsuit against Bill O'Reilly and Fox News Channel has filed new charges against the talk-show host and the network, alleging they conspired to fire her "in direct retaliation" for speaking out about his supposed bad behavior. In an amended complaint filed Tuesday in Manhattan Supreme Court, 33-year-old Andrea Mackris says she alerted Fox News by Sept. 29 about alleged sexual harassment by O'Reilly while working as an associate producer on his top-rated show, The O'Reilly Factor. Mackris originally contended the 55-year-old...

WITH THE release last month of the report by the Senate Select Committee on intelligence and Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, John Kerry was handed a gift that rarely occurs in a major political race: the chance to underscore a major failing on the part of an opponent. The committee found that there was no intelligence data to sustain President Bush's oft-cited reason for last year's invasion of Iraq -- the presence of WMDs and ongoing projects dedicated to their manufacture. Kerry said that the Bush administration had been "wrong, and soldiers lost their lives because they were wrong."