LITTLE ROCK — Zeituni Onyango, President Barack Obama’s Kenyan aunt who lived for years illegally in Boston before being granted asylum in May, told WBZ-TV in an interview that the United States should grant her citizenship, saying, “If I come as an immigrant, you have the obligation to make me a citizen.”
Lawrence Summers, 55, director of the president’s National Economic Council, plans to leave his post and return to Harvard University at the end of the year, the White House announced.
James Willie Jones, 42, apologized in Lake Mary, Fla., for acting like “a bully” when he stormed onto a school bus to confront students he believed were harassing his 13-year-old daughter who has cerebral palsy, saying: “We don’t want vigilantes going on buses, threatening kids, because kids have rights, too.”
Walter Breuning, a Montanan who is believed to be the world’s oldest man, celebrated his 114th birthday at a retirement home in Great Falls.
Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, Somalia’s prime minister who has been at odds with President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, said he was resigning because their infighting over a new draft constitution had become a “security vulnerability” in a country battling an Islamic insurgency andpiracy.
Michael Sohn, the campaign manager for former Rep. Christopher Shays, has been sentenced in New Haven, Conn., to 37 months in prison for embezzling more than $250,000 in campaign funds from the Connecticut Republican.
Treshundra Barnes, 25, has been charged in Memphis with reckless driving and not having a driver’s license after police say she was speeding and swerving when they pulled over her sport utility vehicle in which she was driving 13 children.
Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, said the Senate Republican caucus will meet today to determine “whether or not it’s appropriate” for Alaska’s Sen. Lisa Murkowski to remain the party’s ranking member on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee in light of her decision to seek re-election as a write-in candidate.
Erica F. Anderson, 37, and Joshua K. Deeter Tseu, 19, were arrested on robbery and theft charges after Grants Pass, Ore., police say they robbed a local bank, then stopped to pick up Anderson’s two daughters at school on the way back to her home.
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