TAMPA – A combative Mitt Romney on Monday broadened his call for Newt Gingrich to release records from his work as a consultant, speculating that those documents and records from a House ethics investigation from his time as speaker could show “potentially wrongful activity of some kind.” Read full article > >

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Mitt Romney expands attack on Newt Gingrich, slamming work for health-care firms

If the campaign includes a fraught discussion about minorities and entitlements, work ethics and what it means to be American, it will have gotten under way in earnest in South Carolina this week.

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Political Memo: Risks for G.O.P. on Attacks With Racial Themes — Political Memo

A 3-year-old child, her fierce parents and a group of doctors are introducing many of us to one of the most disturbing debates within medical ethics. The child is Amelia Rivera. She has a rare chromosomal disorder called Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, which causes severe developmental delays. She also needs a kidney transplant within the next six to 12 months. Read full article > >

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Denying an organ to a ‘mentally retarded’ child

The Washington city council passed an ethics overhaul package, including a new process for expelling members accused of wrongdoing, after a series of damaging accusations.

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Image Tarnished by Scandals, Washington Council Overhauls Ethics Rules

The House Committee on Ethics said Thursday that it was extending an investigation into the conduct of Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.), who has previously come under scrutiny for reimbursements made to his employees for campaign donations. The announcement by Chairman Jo Bonner (R-Ala.) and ranking member Linda T. Sanchez (D-Calif.) marks another political challenge for Buchanan, the senior Republican fundraiser in the House, who is also facing a separate Justice Department probe. Read full article > >

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House ethics panel extends probe of Fla. GOP Congressman Vern Buchanan

The D.C. Council approved an overhaul of the city’s ethics laws Tuesday, toughening disclosure requirements and for the first time agreeing on an impeachment process that punishes misconduct. The bill, approved by a vote of 12 to 1, caps a six-month effort by the council to respond to a series of ethical controversies involving some council members that have shaken the public’s confidence in its ability to police itself . Council member Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6) voted no. Read full article > >

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D.C. Council overhauls ethics rules

LONDON — CNN star interviewer Piers Morgan faces questions Tuesday about his time at the top of Britain’s tabloid industry — widely anticipated testimony that may dredge up allegations his British newspaper career was colored by wrongdoing. Morgan ran two British tabloids — the News of the World and the Daily Mirror — before his editorship was cut short by scandal in 2004. He’s due to give evidence to Britain’s media ethics inquiry by video link from the United States — one of a host of tabloid newspaper executives to face the inquiry, set up in the wake of the News of the World phone hacking scandal. Read full article > >

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CNN interview star Piers Morgan faces UK media inquiry over former role as UK tabloid chief

Former Daily Mirror and NoW editor Piers Morgan is set to appear at the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics.

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The federal government should develop a way to compensate volunteers who are harmed while participating in medical experiments, a presidential commission recommended Thursday. In a 208-page report, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues concluded that existing regulations are sufficient to protect people involved in federally funded research from suffering harm and unethical treatment, both in the United States and overseas. But the commission recommended 14 steps to improve protections, including establishing a uniform compensation system for when harm does occur. Read full article > >

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Bioethics panel urges system to compensate those hurt in medical experiments

At some point, this Newtonian episode is going to wind up in a campaign ad. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in an online interview that she would share what she knows about Newt Gingrich from her days on the ethics committee that eventually meted out a record $300,000 fine . (“I served on the investigative committee that investigated him, four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year,” Pelosi told Talking Points Memo . “A thousand pages of his stuff.”) Gingrich was outraged that she should reveal the facts about which he was investigated, contrary to a system designed to afford members of Congress the maximum protection. He blustered that this would be a “fundamental [Gingrich’s favorite word] violation of the rules of the House.” Read full article > >

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Newt Gingrich and the unknown unknowns

The judge-led inquiry into media ethics recalls a former investigator at the Information Commissioner’s Office.

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Inquiry recalls ex-investigator

Just a little more than an hour after some House Democrats recently demanded an inquiry into Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ ethics , Senate Republicans stepped up the pressure on Justice Elena Kagan to take herself out of the court’s decision on the health-care reform act. The process repeated itself a few days later. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Tex.) called for the release of more documents about Kagan’s role as President Obama’s solicitor general; the liberal group People for the American Way came out with another broadside against Thomas. Read full article > >

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Health-care case brings fight over which Supreme Court justices should decide it

A former business advisor to supermodel Elle Macpherson is giving evidence to a judge-led inquiry into media ethics.

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Model’s ex-advisor on media stand

Almost exactly a year ago, members of Congress voted overwhelmingly to censure their colleague Rep. Charlie Rangel for bringing dishonor on the House. Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi summoned the New York Democrat to the well and chastised him for his 11 ethics violations, which included improper fundraising. Read full article > >

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Lately, the Yankees have been turning up in unlikely contexts, including indictments, testimony and ethics rulings.

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To Keep Up With the Yankees, Look Beyond Sports Pages