“Political corruption” on The Daily Caller

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi promised four years ago that Democrats would lead “the most honest, most open, most ethical Congress in history.” (more)

PHOENIX (AP) — The mayor of Nogales was arrested Tuesday by FBI agents on multiple charges including bribery, theft, fraud and money laundering, Arizona’s attorney general said. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Embattled Rep. Charles Rangel prevailed in a crowded Democratic primary Tuesday, with voters in his New York City district signaling they are willing to stand by the 40-year House veteran despite more than a dozen ethics charges pending against him. (more)

Before cavalierly dismissing the New Black Panther voter intimidation debacle as yet another right-wing conspiracy or as a story about race, perhaps apologists should review the actual facts of what happened on Election Day in November 2008. (more)

Free Press, the public face of the net neutrality movement, is a moral see-saw when it comes to transparency. (more)

Paul Magliocchetti, president of the Arlington, Virginia, lobbying firm PMA Group Inc., was arrested and charged with using intermediaries to skirt federal campaign- contribution limits, the U.S. Justice Department said. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — House investigators accused veteran New York Rep. Charles Rangel of 13 violations of congressional ethics standards on Thursday, throwing a cloud over his four-decade political career and raising worries for fellow Democrats about the fall elections. (more)

Three out of every four lobbyists who represent oil and gas companies previously worked in the federal government, a proportion that far exceeds the usual revolving-door standards on Capitol Hill, a Washington Post analysis shows. (more)

CHICAGO (AP) — Father knows best. (more)

COPPELL, Texas (AP) — A Dallas area mayor who authorities believe killed herself and her daughter left a note saying the two were still grieving over the 2008 death of their husband and father from cancer, police said Friday. (more)

DETROIT (AP) — Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded poverty Tuesday and was granted a lawyer at public expense to defend him against charges that he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars collected for a charity on himself and his family. (more)

During testimony last week before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, former Justice Department lawyer J. Christian Adams claimed that he and his colleagues had been specifically instructed not to enforce certain voting laws if they could affect minority votes — an accusation the Justice Department denies. (more)

PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors have opened a preliminary investigation into allegations that the country’s richest woman secretly funded President Nicolas Sarkozy’s election campaign, a judicial official said Wednesday. (more)

HAVANA (AP) — The number of political prisoners in Cuba continued a notable decline in the first half of 2010, the island’s top human rights monitor said Monday, meaning their ranks have dropped by nearly half since Raul Castro took power in 2006. (more)

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Scores of Pakistani lawmakers may lose their seats for allegedly lying about their academic credentials, a growing scandal that adds to the woes of the U.S.-backed leadership as it struggles with Islamist militancy and a weak economy. (more)

MOSCOW (AP) — Some of the suspected spies arrested in the United States are Russian citizens, Russia’s Foreign Ministry acknowledged Tuesday, but it insisted they did nothing to hurt U.S. interests. (more)

The Senate’s top Republican now says it’s too early to know if Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan will have to overcome a filibuster on her way to a seat on the nation’s highest court. (more)

As the world focuses on Greece and the rest of the so-called PIIGs–Portugal, Italy and Ireland–in their fight to reverse years of irresponsible fiscal policies, another group of nations make them look positively well-managed. Forbes screened IMF data for countries that have low and declining per-capita GDP, high trade deficits and high inflation, all indicators of bad economic management regardless of the country's inherent wealth. (more)

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida was arrested Wednesday for allegedly running a scam bilking money from the party. (more)

TOKYO (AP) — The hasty departure of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama after only eight months in office could paralyze Japanese politics or force the creation of a new ruling coalition, analysts said Wednesday, with key elections looming and the battle over the future of a major U.S. military base still unresolved. (more)