Douglas C. Pizac / AP Mitt Romney is shown in October 2001, when he was president of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee. On Saturday evening, Romney was to speak at a celebration honoring the 10-year anniversary of the games. By Michael Isikoff, NBC News

The tea party referendum has officially begun. Despite the success of tea party candidates all over the country in 2010, many top GOP Senate candidates have avoided the same kind of tough insider-outsider primary matchups that made the summer of 2010 so

Bill Moyers talks with conservative economist Bruce Bartlett, who wrote "the bible" for the Reagan Revolution, worked on domestic policy for the Reagan White House, and served as a top treasury official under the first President Bush. Now he's a heretic

Shira Schoenberg can be reached at sschoenbergglobe.com. Follow her on Twitter shiraschoenberg. In a fight to be seen as the most fiscally conservative presidential candidate, Republicans Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum have been attacking one another fo

In mid-March, a small army of interested citizens will attend neighborhood precinct caucuses to elect delegates to their party's statewide convention, where candidates for nearly all public offices will be nominated for a place on the ballot. Democrats w

Romney at the SLC Olympics Mitt Romney, in pledging to turn around the Olympics in 2002, had promised to restore the honor and integrity of the scandal-clouded Salt Lake City. The Games captured the world’s attention and became all the more urgent after

Megaupload, Megacontroversy, Megaconflict? Hogan Lovells partner withdraws from representation of Megaupload in its recent legal troubles. The organization is currently defending itself against accusations that it built an elaborate system designed to en

A New Zealand judge has denied bail to Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, who will remain in custody until a hearing next month to determine whether he's extradited to the United States to answer charges of committing massive copyright infringement, racketee

The Washington Post said on Monday former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s campaign will attack former Speaker of the US House Newt Gingrich for work he did for Freddie Mac. However, at least one well-known senator who has endorsed Romney was a top campa

WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Content-sharing Internet service Megaupload.com has lost the help of one of the best-known U.S. defense lawyers as it begins to fight charges of copyright infringement, a person familiar with the matter said. Robert Bennett

Megaupload has defense trouble Megaupload saw its troubles expand on Sunday in multiple directions. The file upload service's founder Kim Dotcom pressed for bail in a New Zealand court. In a Reuters account, his attorney argued both that he had done noth

Kim Dotcom has retained and then lost a star-quality US attorney, as debate over the raid and the Megaupload owner’s residency turns political in New Zealand. At issue in the political debate is why Dotcom, who was refused permission to purchase the mult

Washington attorney Robert Bennett would be representing the executives of Megaupload.com when they appear in court, the Associated Press reported. US authorities shut down the Hong Kong-based Megaupload on Thursday charging the file-sharing website with

ALEXANDRIA (US): When Megaupload executives arrive in court to answer charges that they orchestrated a massive online piracy scheme, they'll be backed by a prominent lawyer who has defended Bill Clinton against sexual harassment charges and Enron against

Washington attorney Robert Bennett would be representing the executives of Megaupload.com when they appear in court, the Associated Press reported. US authorities shut down the Hong Kong-based Megaupload on Thursday charging the file-sharing website with

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - When Megaupload executives arrive in court to answer charges that they orchestrated a massive online piracy scheme, they'll be backed by a prominent lawyer who has defended Bill Clinton against sexual harassment charges and Enron a

Washington attorney Robert Bennett said Friday that he will represent the company, which was indicted Thursday in federal court in Alexandria on copyright infringement and other charges. The U.S. government shut down Megaupload's file-sharing website on

When Megaupload executives arrive in court to answer charges that they orchestrated a massive online piracy scheme, they'll be backed by a prominent lawyer who has defended Bill Clinton against sexual harassment charges and Enron against allegations of c

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