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Kenny G’s wife files for legal separation

The music is over for Kenny G and his wife of nearly 20 years. According to court documents, Lyndie Benson-Gorelick filed for legal separation on Jan. 9, citing irreconcilable differences as reason for the couple’s split.

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EU launches legal challenges against Hungary (AP)

FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2011 file picture Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban talks during a press conference after meeting with President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso, not seen, in Budapest, Hungary. As a radical anti-communist in his university days, Viktor Orban wrote a penetrating analysis of the dirty tricks communists used to cling to power. Now the 48-year-old prime minister faces accusations of playing by a similar handbook as he consolidates power for his right-wing party and erodes the democracy he once fought for with zeal.  (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky,File)AP – The European Commission on Tuesday launched legal challenges against Hungary’s new constitution amid concerns that the former Soviet-bloc country may be slipping back into authoritarianism.


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Justice Dept says recent recess appointments legal (AP)

President Barack Obama visits the new director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Richard Cordray, right, at CFPB's offices in Washington, Friday, Jan. 6, 2012. Obama riled congressional Republicans this week by using a recess appointment, a rarely invoked legal tactic, to appoint Cordray, the former Ohio attorney general to run the watchdog agency.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP – The Justice Department is publicly rebutting Republican criticism of the legality of President Barack Obama’s recent recess appointments of a national consumer watchdog and other officials.


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Berlusconi faces future of legal, business woes (AP)

FILE - In this Oct. 6, 2005 file photo, Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi touches his face during a joined press conference in Rome. Premier Silvio Berlusconi resigned in Rome, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011, after the Parliament's lower chamber passed European-demanded reforms, ending a 17-year political era and setting in motion a transition aimed at bringing Italy back from the brink of economic crisis. The 75-year-old billionaire media mogul, who came to power for the first time in 1994 using a soccer chant 'Go Italy' as the name of his political party, became Italy's longest-serving post-war premier. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito , File)AP – His legacy tarnished and his hopes of clinging to power dashed, Silvio Berlusconi faces daunting legal and financial challenges and the prospect of life outside the international spotlight now that he has left office.


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Death row inmate fighting to die gets legal win

An Oregon death row inmate fighting for his execution is one legal step closer to a lethal injection. Gary Haugen, a double-murderer who wants to waive all his appeals and head to the death chamber, is mentally competent to make his own legal decisions, according to an Oregon judge.

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AP poll: Divisions persist on legal gay marriage (AP)

AP – Barbara Von Aspern loves her daughter, “thinks the world” of the person her daughter intends to marry and believes the pair should have the same legal rights as anyone else. It pains her, but Von Aspern is going to skip their wedding. Her daughter, Von Aspern explains, is marrying another woman.

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President Obama wins latest legal battle over health care reform

President Obama won the latest legal battle over his health care reform plan Thursday when a federal appeals court tossed out a lawsuit filed by the state of Virginia.

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