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The returns on voting from ballot boxes indicate that the Likud has significantly extended its lead over Zionist Union. According to Israel Radio, officials have counted the votes of 25 percent of booths across the country. The results indicate that the Likud wins 32 Knesset seats while Zionist Union garners 25 seats. Yesh Atid is the third-largest party with 11 seats, Moshe Kahlon's Kulanu faction wins 10 seats, the Arab List nosedives to nine seats, the Sephardi ultra-Orthodox Shas movement wins eight seats, Naftali Bennett's Bayit Yehudi dips further to seven seats, while Yisrael Beytenu, which has only mustered five...

A deer that crashed through a window and romped around a house in East Tennessee left a family with thousands of dollars in damages and a mess that included blood stains from the homeowner shooting the animal. David and Cheri Ellis told the Cleveland Daily Banner that their daughters had gone upstairs to their bedroom when a six-point buck jumped through a window Wednesday night at the house they are remodeling in north Bradley County. Sign up for news & weather email alerts from WHNT NEWS 19! David Ellis said he saw the deer slid into a drum set and...

A new book which suggests that the German occupation of France encouraged the sexual liberation of women has shocked a country still struggling to come to terms with its troubled history of collaboration with the Nazis. A recent exhibition of pictures from occupied Paris has revealed a more relaxed image of the city Like a recent photographic exhibition showing Parisians enjoying themselves under the occupation, the book’s depiction of life in Paris as one big party is at odds with the collective memory of hunger, resistance and fear. “It is a taboo subject, a story nobody wants to hear,” said...

Sifting through hundreds of bills lawmakers sent to his desk at the end of the session, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger provided fresh evidence that he is a maverick who will never satisfy either the left or the right wings of California politics. On labor, business and fiscal issues, the governor tilts right. On the environment, he leans left. On social issues, his instincts go left but are tempered by the legal and political realities he confronts. He is not so much a consistent centrist as a mix of conservative and liberal positions, an eclectic combination of views that makes him a...

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) Chairman Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) has cropped the number of “Frontline” Democrats from last year’s 19 to nine, implementing revised criteria to determine which incumbents are truly vulnerable and deserving of member-to-member donations. The revised criteria have nearly halved last cycle’s number of at-risk lawmakers, allowing House Democrats to designate more of their incumbents’ excess money to knocking off Republicans and contesting open seats. Emanuel’s higher vulnerability standards also indicate that the DCCC, under his direction, will implement a more calibrated strategy toward channeling member-to-member donations and will not ask lawmakers to part with campaign...

House Republican leaders last night notified their 10 most vulnerable lawmakers that they will be the lucky beneficiaries of this year's first ROMP (Retain Our Majority Program) fundraiser. The list provides an early preview of who GOP leaders think need the most help from their fellow lawmakers. It also lets potential Democratic challengers know that any run will be expensive. The 10 members are Reps. Bob Beauprez (Colo.), Mike Fitzpatrick (Pa.), Jim Gerlach (Pa.), Marilyn Musgrave (Colo.), Anne Northup (Ky.), Jon Porter (Nev.), Dave Reichert (Wash.), Rick Renzi (Ariz.), Rob Simmons (Conn.) and Mike Sodrel (Ind.). Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.),...

Bill Clinton has been caught on videotape cheating on Hillary -- and the steay sex romp could torpedo her political career! Now foes of Hillary are in an all-out race to obtain the tape and publicize it, an exclusive ENQUIRER investigation has discovered. "A videotape exists of Bill having sex with another woman," and insider confirmed to The ENQUIRER. "Hillary's politcal opponents are hot after the tape. And when they get it they're going to play it for the American public and drive Hillary right out of politics. She'll be humiliated." Although there's been controversy in political circles as to...