“Local governments” on The Daily Caller

ROME (AP) — Italy’s parliament backed Premier Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday, rebuffing a request by prosecutors to search some of his properties as part of a prostitution investigation targeting him. (more)

CHICAGO (AP) — Minutes after Illinois’ highest court put him back in Chicago mayor’s race, Rahm Emanuel was at a downtown transit station, shaking hands with the public and talking about a congratulatory phone call from former boss President Barack Obama. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Enough already. (more)

ADEN, Yemen (AP) — Drawing inspiration from the revolt in Tunisia, thousands of Yemenis fed up with their president’s 32-year rule demanded his ouster Saturday in a noisy demonstration that appeared to be the first large-scale public challenge to the strongman. (more)

TERESOPOLIS, Brazil (AP) — As night fell, barefoot volunteers dragged a generator and stadium lights into a town cemetery, where nearly 200 freshly dug graves lay open like wounds in the red clay soil, waiting for some of the hundreds killed by torrential rains. (more)

ROCKHAMPTON, Australia (AP) — Weary residents of an Australian coastal city inundated with floodwaters braced Wednesday for water levels to peak, as state officials held an emergency meeting to help determine recovery plans for the 200,000 people affected by the deluge. (more)

BEIJING (AP) — China plans to crack down in the coming year on lavish parties and seminars organized by government officials, hoping to placate a public angered by corruption and accounts of sex and booze-fueled fetes held at taxpayer expense. (more)

CHICAGO (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton will campaign in support of former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s bid for Chicago mayor. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration took separate actions this week to protect clean air and federal wilderness areas, reaffirming that the White House can pursue its goals without depending on help from an increasingly combative Congress. (more)

CHICAGO — Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel can run for Chicago mayor although he spent much of the last two years living in Washington while working for President Barack Obama, the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners ruled Thursday. (more)

KAILUA, Hawaii — While President Barack Obama’s standing in Washington has dropped a notch or two in the year since he and his family last spent their holiday vacation in this beach community, the thrill is definitely not gone for many Kailuans about him coming back. (more)

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — The Berkeley City Council Tuesday night indefinitely delayed a vote on whether to bestow hero status on a soldier who allegedly released classified information to WikiLeaks. (more)

CHICAGO (AP) — With Rahm Emanuel off the witness stand and back on the campaign trail in his bid for Chicago mayor, a hearing about whether his name should be on the ballot turns to other witnesses, including a woman who rented Emanuel’s house after he went to Washington, D.C., to work for the president. (more)

CHICAGO (AP) — Rahm Emanuel, who left a powerful job with President Barack Obama at the White House to move back to Chicago and run for mayor, endured nearly 12 hours of questioning Tuesday from everyone from attorneys to a woman named Queen Sister — all intent on keeping his name off the ballot. (more)

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza’s ruling Hamas movement has politicians sweeping streets to show community spirit, activists distributing chocolates and cards signed “from Hamas with love” and police officers visiting homes and schools to soften the often harsh image of the security forces. (more)

PARIS (AP) — Masked French gendarmes detained a 17-year-old armed with two knives who took a class full of preschoolers hostage Monday, releasing all the children safely after hours of tense negotiations that drew nationwide attention. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Sunday revisited the subject of his possible aspirations for higher office, offering a definitive “no way, no how” when asked if he will run for president of the United States. (more)

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — The Berkeley City Council will consider a resolution that would declare the Army private suspected of leaking classified information to WikiLeaks a hero and call for his release. (more)

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — In Tehran’s northern suburbs, 24-year-old Sepehr Shaygan is nursing a stubborn headache he blames on the smog. His mother puts on a surgical mask to do the shopping for a barbecue on the roof. (more)

MOUNT VERNON, Ohio (AP) — People in the tiny Ohio town of Mount Vernon used to have to think back years to recall a violent crime. (more)