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Alberto Gonzales, who served as White House counsel and attorney general in the George W. Bush administration, threw his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris in a POLITICO Magazine op-ed published Thursday morning.(snip)Gonzales and Cheney were both widely reviled by liberals and Democrats during the Bush years, particularly over their roles in the domestic and foreign responses to 9/11.Gonzales, acting as Bush's top White House lawyer, signed an infamous memo in 2002 arguing that the Geneva Conventions did not apply to either al-Qaeda or Taliban detainees, and that those rules were "quaint" and "obsolete" in dealing with the War on...

The head of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee has put fencer Race Imboden and hammer thrower Gwen Berry on probation for their political protests at the Pan-American Games. The letters of reprimand, sent Tuesday, chastise Imboden for kneeling and Berry for making a defiant fist during the playing of the national anthem during medal ceremonies, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.

Cheeky fencer foiled in bid for team By Lee Jin-joo Fri Jan 13, 9:41 AM ET SEOUL (Reuters) - One of South Korea's top women fencers was dropped from the country's national team because she underwent plastic surgery that included receiving cheek implants, local media reported. Nam Hyun-hee, a top foil fencer, had cosmetic surgery in December on her eyes to fix a problem that meant her eyelashes were bothering her vision, reports said. Along with the eye surgery, she also decided to have a little work done on her cheeks to increase their amplitude, South Korean media reported. The...