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A Harvard Law School alum has come forward to accuse Biden of plagiarizing an article he wrote more than two decades ago. Roger Severino .. was working .. at the Harvard Journal of Legislation in 2000 when he found multiple instances of copying in an essay Biden] had lifted language straight out of a [federal court] opinion, changed a couple words and called them his own. There were no quote marks and no footnote or anything else attributing the court as the source, ... When asked why he decided to come forward with the claims 23 years after the fact,...

SCANDAL and crisis engulfed British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Government yesterday as three of his most senior ministers came under growing personal and political pressure on Labour's blackest day since it came to power in 1997. Newspapers gave a damning verdict on the Government's woes, which climaxed in a sex scandal starring the Deputy Prime Minister, a crime blunder by the interior minister and a snub by nurses for the Health Secretary. Home Secretary Charles Clarke was fighting to stay in his job after admitting that 288 foreign prisoners were released without consideration of deportation even after he learnt of...

BRITISH newspapers agreed today that Prime Minister Tony Blair's first-ever defeat in Parliament was a major watershed in his administration. Thanks to 49 rebel Labour MPs, the House of Commons voted down a proposal - championed by Blair in the wake of the deadly London bombings in July - to give police the power to hold terrorism suspects for 90 days without charge. Both The Times and The Daily Mail splashed Blair's setback on their front pages with the identical headline: "Beginning of the end?" "Mr Blair has looked invincible for the past eight years. But after yesterday, he no...