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December 05, 2011 | | EXCLUSIVE Ginger White dealt a death blow to Herman Cain’s campaign by alleging a 13-year affair. As he officially bows out of the race, White tells The Daily Beast’s Leslie Bennetts how Cain’s ‘arrogance’ persuaded her to go public; how she viewed Cain as a sexist who thought the ‘man was always right’; the time she thought about grocery shopping while having sex with him; why she thinks Cain’s wife engaged in willful denial, and more. Elections Vladimir Putin may want to reconsider his run for president next year: His United Russia party took an unexpected drubbing at the polls over the weekend, receiving just under 50 percent of the vote. That’s not enough to oust the party from power in Parliament, but it does eliminate the two-thirds majority that allowed it to change the constitution unchallenged. Opposition parties and European observers, meanwhile, are alleging widespread fraud, including ballot stuffing and bribing voters. The head of Russia’s Electoral Commission said United Russia should have a slim majority in Parliament, with 238 out of 450 seats. Budget Cuts The U.S. Postal Service will eliminate next-day delivery as part of an overhaul to save $3 billion. USPS will close nearly half of its 500 mail processing centers next year, meaning mail will have to travel farther from post office to processing center. As a result, first-class mail will no longer be delivered the next day, even within a community; it will take two to three days. Delivery of periodicals will take longer, between two and nine days. RADIOACTIVE More trouble for the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant: a pool of water was found to be contaminated, containing 300 times the level of radioactive cesium permitted. Officials say the leak will not disturb the cooling process of the factory, but it increases concerns that radioactive contaminants are entering the Pacific Ocean. A local report estimates that 220 metric tons of water has leaked from the factory to the ocean. Troubling All that time spent harassing illegal immigrants may come at the expense of investigating other crimes. America’s self-described “toughest sheriff,” Arizona’s Maricopa County’s Joe Arpaio, failed to adequately investigate more than 400 sex crimes between 2004 and 2007, according to the Associated Press. In just the town of El Mirage, where Arpaio’s office provided contract police services, he never followed through on 32 reported child molestations, even though suspects were known in all but six cases. A spokesman for Arpaio’s office declined to say why the cases weren’t investigated, saying only “There are policy violations that have occurred here.” | | 
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