WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says that in Janet Yellen he’s found a tough and proven leader to take over as chairman of the Federal Reserve. Yellen currently is No. 2 at the nation’s powerful central bank. She would succeed ...

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DLA Piper’s Baltimore office is headed for a leadership change, with Guy E. Flynn taking over the firm’s 20-lawyer Maryland real estate practice on Jan. 1.

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SAN ANGELO, Texas — Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday for sexually assaulting an underage follower he took as a bride in what his church deemed a “spiritual marriage.” The head of the Fundamentalist ...

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NEW YORK — The hotel housekeeper accusing Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her is telling her story publicly, she says, because she wants the former International Monetary Fund leader behind bars. But it’s hard to say whether her striking move ...

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NEW YORK — Dominique Strauss-Kahn formally asserted his innocence Monday to charges he tried to rape a hotel maid, but the drama unfolded outside the Manhattan courtroom as protesters jeered the former International Monetary Fund leader and lawyers for the ...

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NEW YORK — A prosecutor in New York says a grand jury has indicted former IMF leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn in connection with an alleged attack on a hotel maid. The assistant district attorney did not specify the charge. Strauss-Kahn was ...

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