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Fact: David Cross once snorted cocaine at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. The actor confessed to the persistent rumor in an interview in the March issue of Playboy magazine, saying he pulled the stunt while sitting some 65 feet away from President Obama. "It wasn’t even that much cocaine. It was literally the size of, I don’t know, a tick. It was a tiny granule of coke that I put on my wrist and said, 'Watch this. I need a witness,'" Cross recalled. "And then I ducked under the table and did it. It wasn’t like I got high," he...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A top State Department official resigned Friday after revealing to ABC News that he had been a client of the alleged "D.C. madam's" escort service. A State Department official, on condition of anonymity, confirmed to CNN the reason for Randall Tobias' departure as director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. The State Department said that Tobias, 65, resigned for "personal reasons." ABC reported on its Web site that Tobias, 65, said Thursday that he had used Deborah Jeane Palfrey's escort service "to have gals come over to the condo to...

The Bush administration answered a flat-out "no" on Wednesday to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan's request that the United States donate $1 billion in 2005 to a U.N. global fund to combat AIDS, the Associated Press reported. "It's not going to happen," the wire service quoted U.S. AIDS coordinator Randall Tobias as saying. Tobias noted that Washington already is the world's largest donor to fighting AIDS. Annan made his plea at the International AIDS Conference in Thailand, where he announced that the Global Fund to fight AIDS was well short of its $3.6 billion goal for 2005, the AP...