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A bulletin from President Obama: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's fall in the State Department basement this week might have been caused by rival Richard Holbrooke – long suspected of coveting the Secretary's title – slicking the floor with WD-40. Obama said his first reaction to news that Clinton's fractured elbow would require surgery was to brace for yet another fiscal crisis. "Fortunately, the lawyers tell me Hillary's ready to settle," he quipped at Washington's annual Radio & Television Correspondents' Dinner Friday night. [Snip] Obama also joked about sleeping with NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams, who spent a much-ballyhooed...

WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton fractured her right elbow during a fall Wednesday, her chief of staff said. Clinton was on her way to the White House when she fell and injured her elbow, chief of staff Cheryl Mills said in a statement released late Wednesday.

Judge blasts villagers in sentencingBlaming the seven women who accused former mayor of sexual assault 'worst kind of enabling': Groped seven women OUTLOOK, Sask. - As the former mayor of tiny Elbow, Sask., was sentenced yesterday to house arrest for molesting seven village women, the judge peered down at Donald Maxwell's legion of supporters and cast judgment on their role in the sordid affair. For months, Maxwell, his friends and his fellow Lutheran churchgoers have minimized the wrong in Maxwell's repeated attacks on the women, mostly mothers in their 40s and 50s. For seven years, he took advantage of his...

LONDON (Reuters) - The United States has come up against resistance from a new quarter as it considers plans to take military action against Iraq -- British rock bands. The campaign started last week with dance music trio Massive Attack signing up for the "Stop the War" campaign, headed by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament pressure group, and Tuesday it was taken up by "Britpop" icons Blur and rockers Elbow. "The pressure needs to be put on (Prime Minister) Tony Blair ( news - web sites)," Elbow lead singer Guy Garvey told Reuters Tuesday, referring to Blair's refusal to rule...