TOKYO – Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen took a leap into the robotics future in Japan on Monday, trying out a power-assisted robo-suit dubbed HAL or Hybrid Assistive Limb.

"That's amazing!" Rasmussen gasped as he tried out the exoskeleton device, which mimics movement with amplified power and can be used to help paralysed people walk or to assist carers carrying patients.

The inventors, robotics venture Cyberdyne Inc., last Friday set up a unit in Denmark and plan to provide four robotic leg units to the Danish government for their first trial in Europe, the company said.

President Barack Obama can't shake off his public opinion poll problem.

The Rasmussen reports daily presidential tracking poll today shows likely voter approval of presidential performance at 46 percent, the lowest level yet for Obama.

But wait, before anyone in Congress starts jumping up and down in glee, the public opinion of Congress is even more unflattering.

A Rasmussen Reports poll yesterday shows that 57 percent of likely voters would replace the entire Congress and start all over again.

She had a sworn duty to protect others. But her fellow police officers allege that one of their own -- a detective -- is a murderer who was involved in a love triangle more than two decades ago.

Los Angeles police Detective Stephanie Lazarus, 49, is being held without bail on charges that she killed Sherri Rasmussen in 1986 after Rasmussen married Lazarus' ex-boyfriend, John Ruetten.

Nels Rasmussen says he vividly remembers the calls from his daughter 23 years ago when she confided her fears that a jealous LAPD officer was out to harm her. She told him the young female officer had shown up in uniform at the hospital where she worked and issued a chilling warning about her husband, "If I can't have John, nobody can."

LOS ANGELES - A veteran detective was charged with murder Monday in the slaying of her ex-boyfriend's wife in 1986 — a crime that went unsolved for more than two decades as she rose through the Los Angeles Police Department ranks.

Apparently the American people didn't get President Obama's memo that this is the age of post-partisanship.

Because at least when it comes to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's spat with the CIA, the results of a new poll are entirely predictable.

Did the CIA mislead her and Congress on the use of waterboarding ? She says yes. The CIA says no. Americans are divided according to the new Rasmussen survey and it all breaks down by party line.

"Normally, I dress to thrill," he says. But on this evening, instead of the custom-made corsets and leopard-print bathing suit he favors as tops, the 60-year-old Rasmussen--who prefers to be called not Your Honor or Mr. Mayor but rather Stu--has donned a demure red sweater that clashes with his dyed auburn hair.

With the U.S. government taking a majority stake in banks, bossing around the auto industry, and floating the possibility of nationalized healthcare, there have been rumblings in the media that the U.S. is leaning toward socialism.