Rebekah Brooks, a former newspaper editor and News Corp. executive, began testifying Friday over her links to politicians at a U.K. government-backed inquiry into phone hacking and press ethics.

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Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, has been giving evidence at the Leveson Inquiry into press ethics.

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Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, is to give evidence at the Leveson Inquiry into press ethics on Friday.

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James Murdoch, a top executive in his father Rupert Murdoch's media empire, is due to appear Tuesday before an independent British inquiry into journalistic ethics prompted by phone hacking at his defunct News of the World tabloid.

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The inspector general investigating lavish spending by the General Services Administration has told federal prosecutors an outside event planner violated ethics laws while helping to organize a conference at a swank Las Vegas hotel, according to government sources. Read full article > >

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The move is the latest in a string of resignations as his family’s newspaper outpost in Britain becomes ever more deeply mired in a scandal over its reporting practices and ethics.

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James Murdoch Steps Down From British Broadcaster

The Senate will move ahead later this week with the House version of a congressional ethics package, including a formal ban against insider trading on Capitol Hill, but jettisoning tough provisions that had won bipartisan approval in the Senate. Read full article > >

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Senate to vote on STOCK Act

Congressional ethics investigators concluded there “is substantial reason to believe” that Florida’s Rep. Vern Buchanan, one of the top Republicans in the House, violated ethics laws by failing to report his position with a half-dozen firms, according to records released Monday. Read full article > >

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A sweeping new ethics bill would also require disclosures by thousands of employees in the executive branch.

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Senate Approves Ban on Insider Trading by Congress

In a sign of just how unpopular Congress has become, rank-and-file senators hijacked this week’s debate over a narrow conflict-of-interest bill and turned it into the chamber’s most sweeping ethics debate in a generation. Read full article > >

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Minor Senate bill sparks major debate on ethics

The Senate on Monday began its most substantial debate on congressional ethics in nearly five years, a proposal that would formally prohibit insider stock trading on Capitol Hill and bring the chamber’s financial disclosure laws up to date with technology. Read full article > >

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The first Washington sex scandal I remember following involved Daniel Crane, a Republican congressman from my home state of Illinois, who was censured in the (first) House page scandal in 1983. In July of that year, the House Ethics Committee announced that Crane and his Democratic colleague Gerry Studds (Mass.) had been accused of having sex with teenagers in the congressional page program — Crane with a young woman who was 17, and Studds with a young man the same age. The committee originally voted to reprimand both men, but a little-known congressman from Georgia argued that a mere reprimand wasn’t punishment enough. Read full article > >

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‘Family values’ still matter — when it’s the other party’s indiscretions

Sometimes earmarking government money pays off for U.S. lawmakers — even after they’ve left office. A new report has found seven former lawmakers who have lobbied Congress on behalf of organizations that they funded while in office. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington found that former lawmakers have received $1.9 million in revenue from lobbying clients that they funded with taxpayer dollars when sitting in Congress. Read full article > >

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Newt Gingrich used ethics issues to make political gains from the beginning of his career, but in the end ethics issues helped topple him from power in the House.

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The Long Run: The Long Run: Gingrich Stuck to Caustic Path in Ethics Battles

One of the raps on Mitt Romney is he’s not a natural. That he seems fake even when he’s rehearsed being real. One confirmation of this awkwardness may be in the way he is approaching his attacks on Newt Gingrich. Unlike Iowa, where he took the more traditional route of letting his super PAC do his dirty work, now he’s doing it, too. And not in the sunny persona of Ronald Reagan, who perfected the more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger approach. Instead, it is as if Romney has memorized the opposition research books and is reciting as many attacks as he can fit into a sound bite. (Sound bites are allowed to drag on when they are more negative.) Gingrich is bad on Fannie Mae, bad on health care consulting, ethics, can’t get nominated, can’t win. Bad, bad, bad. Read full article > >

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Romney’s attacks: Savvy or desperate?