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WASHINGTON — A Democratic lawmaker was quietly investigated by the House Ethics Committee for allegedly pursuing an “inappropriate relationship” with a staffer — but the probe never substantiated the claims and was closed without releasing any public findings. Rep. Alma Adams, a 79-year-old North Carolina pol who has served the state’s 12th District comprising Charlotte since 2014, was slapped with the ethics complaint in 2022 for getting “extremely close” to her aide Sandra Brown, NOTUS first reported. Aides who spoke with ethics investigators were questioned about Brown’s visits to Adams at a one-bedroom apartment in DC — and her self-published...

Emmanuel Macron does not mince words to attack the unvaccinated in an interview published this Tuesday evening. He explains that he "really wants to *iss them off" and justifies the vaccine pass. Emmanuel Macron raises the tone. In an interview given to "Le Parisien" on Tuesday, the President of the Republic charges people who are still not vaccinated against COVID-19, some of them by deliberate choice. "I'm not to annoy the French. I plague the administration all day long when it it blocks them. Well there, the unvaccinated, I really want to annoy them" says Emmanuel Macron. "So we will...

Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore on Saturday again adamantly denied sexual misconduct allegations and promised that "revelations about the motivations" behind the news report of his alleged behavior will come out in a few days. His Democratic opponent, Doug Jones, meanwhile said Moore needs "to answer to the people of Alabama" about the "very serious allegations." And the lawyer for a woman who says Moore dated her when she was 18 and he was in his 30s and supplied her with alcohol before she was of legal drinking age responded later Saturday to the candidate's comments. Paula Cobia, lawyer for...

Maygan Sensenberger, the 23-year-old wife of a Liberal senator, is due back in court Wednesday in Saskatoon as part of a domestic dispute case that has entered the international spotlight thanks to the couple’s age difference. Sensenberger is charged with causing a disturbance on an aircraft and uttering threats against her husband, Rod Zimmer, after an incident on an Air Canada flight last week. A charge of endangering an aircraft was withdrawn by the Crown. A passenger on the flight told the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix that Sensenberger began yelling loudly at Zimmer, saying she didn’t want to meet his family in...

NEW YORK -- Former Sen. Alfonse D'Amato is looking forward to a few big milestones - his anniversary, his 70th birthday and a baby. "If you had told me this prior to getting married, I would have said you're out of your mind," D'Amato joked Friday as he confirmed his wife, attorney Katuria D'Amato, 41, is due in February. The D'Amatos celebrate their third anniversary next week; his birthday is Aug. 1. "We're tremendously blessed. God has given us this wonderful news and we're very excited about it," D'Amato said. The baby business isn't exactly new to D'Amato, who lost...

(AP) MCNEIL, Ark. -- Authorities investigating the stabbing death of an 83-year-old small-town mayor have arrested his granddaughter and her boyfriend on murder charges, officials said Wednesday. Nena Bolton, 50, and her boyfriend, Shaunte Smith, 27, were arrested Tuesday night in the death of Mayor Ralph Ward, the Columbia County Sheriff’s office said. Bolton was recently released from prison after serving a six-year sentence for killing her estranged husband, Larry Bolton, a former county deputy sheriff and city water works manager. Ward was found stabbed to death in his livingroom recliner on June 15. He had been mayor of McNeil,...

Christopher Knight, aka Peter Brady of "The Brady Bunch," and Adrianne Curry are planning a wedding and reality TV cameras will be there. The couple met on VH1's "The Surreal Life" and became engaged on the season finale of "My Fair Brady." Now Knight, 48, and Curry, 23, will return for a second season of "My Fair Brady," VH1 announced Tuesday. Curry first gained fame as the winner of "America's Next Top Model." In a statement, Knight said love had prevailed despite "our individual quirks and flaws. ... We look forward to planning the rest of our lives together and...