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Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya's meeting with Donald Trump Jr last June was part of a larger, multi-pronged lobbying campaign in Washington last year launched by Veselnitskaya's boss, a Russian real estate mogul who was facing U.S. money laundering charges.

Mitt Romney could face new questions about his overseas investments after a campaign official acknowledged to NBC News that his campaign is revising his financial disclosure forms to report more than a half dozen offshore holdings, including income from a multi-million dollar Swiss bank account that was not disclosed last year. The tax returns released by the Romney campaign this week showed that the Ann Romney Blind Trust had reported $1,783 in interest income from a bank account held at UBS in Switzerland in 2010. But the Swiss bank account -- as well as other offshore investments in the Cayman...

If a tasteless sitcom about Whitey Bulger doesn’t work out, maybe Hollywood will do a “Sopranos”-type drama about the Tierney all-in-the family gambling ring. The cast of characters could include U.S. Rep. John Tierney’s wife, Patrice, his brothers-in-law Daniel Eremian and the fugitive Robert Eremian, Mrs. Tierney’s son, John Chew, and her late father. The congressman’s role can be modeled on Sgt. Schultz who, like Tierney, knew nothing. Actually it might make a better episode of “Ripley’s Believe it or Not.” When Mrs. Tierney first admitted to “willful blindness to tax fraud,” all the news reports stated that $7 million...

<p>WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Rush Limbaugh asked a court Wednesday to hear his claim that investigators violated his privacy by seizing his medical records and asked that the records not be released.</p> <p>The conservative radio host cannot be treated for his medical conditions because the state seized his charts and files last month and intimidated his doctors, the court petition said.</p>