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A federal judge has ordered Rep. Jim McDermott to pay House Minority Leader John Boehner more than $1 million in legal fees in a decade-long dispute over an illegally taped telephone call. Chief Judge Thomas Hogan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ordered McDermott to pay Boehner $1.05 million in attorney's fees and costs, plus about $40,000 in interest. McDermott, a Washington Democrat, also had to pay more than $60,000 in fines and damages, as well as nearly $600,000 in fees to his own lawyers. McDermott said Tuesday he would not appeal the judge's ruling. "It's...

While presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., received the kind of oh-so-serious treatment he no doubt thinks he deserves during Sunday's hourlong "Meet the Press" campaign commercial - er - interview, some of the folks back home in Boston are bursting out in laughter at the thought of "President Kerry." WRKO radio talker Howie Carr, for instance, shared a Kerry anecdote or two last week with the readers of his Boston Herald column; tidbits "Meet the Press" apparently just didn't have time to squeeze in. "John 'Liveshot' Kerry stories? I got a million of 'em," the no-holds-barred host began. "Liveshot...

<p>ZAGREB, Croatia — The Balkans war crimes tribunal is examining whether charges are warranted against former President Clinton and his aides for supporting a 1995 military offensive by Croatia that recaptured territory then held by rebel Serbian forces.</p> <p>The Croatian World Congress sent a letter last week demanding that Carla Del Ponte, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), open a criminal investigation into Mr. Clinton and other top officials of his administration for "aiding and abetting indicted Croatian Gen. Ante Gotovina in a 1995 Croatian military operation known as 'Operation Storm.'"</p>