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Bauer Publishing Company filed a rebuttal against "Mission Impossible" actor, Tom Cruise, who is suing its magazines "Life & Style" and "In Touch" for defamation of character. In the $50 million lawsuit filed in October, Cruised accused publishers for causing damages to his reputation by falsely accusing him of abandoning his six-year-old daughter.

Republican Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts became the first sitting Republican to lend support to Democrat Senator Diane Feinstein's proposition to place a federal ban on assault weapons, which she plans to present in January.

Judge Robert Bork died at the age of 85 on Wednesday in his home in Virginia. His son Robert H. Bork Jr. confirmed the news to MSN News.Details of the causes of his death have not been released yet, but in the recent years Bork had been suffering from heart ailments.