While Henry Kissinger is best known for having the ear of presidents, over the course of his remarkable career he was also often a counselor to popes as well.
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Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, running for Speaker of the House, faced opposition from a faction of 20 rightwing party members, who held enough sway in the narrowly divided House of Representatives to prevent him from taking the post after three rounds of voting.
BRESCIA, Italy An Italian court ruled Monday that a suspect in a major corruption scandal linked to the European Union s parliament could be handed over to Belgium, where prosecutors are investigating a plan to peddle influence on behalf of Qatar and Morocco.
The court in Brescia decided that Maria Dolores Colleoni could be taken to Belgium based on a European arrest warrant linking her to the scandal through her husband, former MEP Pier Antonio Panzeri.