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AP - The Security Council and the U.N. secretary-general commended Ivory Coast's president and rebel leader Wednesday for their efforts to end a 4 1/2-year conflict and offered help to support the implementation of a March 4 peace plan.

Jack Valenti, the former White House aide and film industry lobbyist who instituted the modern movie ratings system and guided Hollywood from the censorship era to the digital age, died Thursday

Vice President Dick Cheney opposed a promotion for a deputy involved in a heated dispute with the White House over the legality of a controversial domestic surveillance program, former Deputy Attorney General James Comey told senators.

CQPolitics.com - When he was Speaker, J. Dennis Hastert kept peace with the conservative base of his Republican caucus by moving through the House only bills backed by a “majority of the majority.”