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US Vice President-elect Joe Biden has said he will be restoring the office of the Vice President to its historical role as adviser to the president and tie-breaker in the Senate. There has been confirmation that the new Congress will reassert its constitutional independence from the White House by barring the vice president from joining in internal Senate deliberations. Elizabeth Alexander, a spokesperson for the vice president-elect, said Biden would not continue the practice started by current Vice President, Dick Cheney of regularly attending internal legislative branch meetings. Cheney has vastly enlarged the office's power, even claiming at one point...

<p>WASHINGTON — Rep. Don Sherwood (search), R-Pa., admitted in court papers filed Thursday that he had an affair with a Maryland woman for five years, but he denied abusing her, as she claimed in a $5.5 million civil suit.</p> <p>The court papers were filed by Sherwood in response to the lawsuit filed last month by Cynthia Ore (search), 29, of Rockville, Md. In it, she alleges that he assaulted and struck her on several occasions.</p>

Jude Law publicly apologized to his fiancee, actress Sienna Miller, expressing his "sincere regret" over an affair with one of his children's nanny. "Following the reports in today's papers, I just want to say I am deeply ashamed and upset that I've hurt Sienna and the people most close to us," the 32-year-old actor said in a statement Monday to the British Press Association. "I want to publicly apologize to Sienna and our respective families for the pain that I have caused," said Law, star of "Alfie" and "The Talented Mr. Ripley" films. The publicity firm that represents Miller told...

Where is the first amendment for Chris Rock. Besides he is comedian, do people really take him seriously