LITTLE ROCK — Gov. Rick Perry, RTexas, was asked by Parade magazine whether he believed that President Barack Obama was born in the U.S. and said he has “no reason to think otherwise,” but, when pressed, said he didn’t know whether Obama’s birth certificate is real, adding that Donald Trump doesn’t trust Obama’s documents, before continuing: “It doesn’t matter. [Obama is] the President of the United States.”
James Murdoch, son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, will appear before Britain’s Parliament Nov. 10 for a second round of questioning in the newspaper phone-hacking scandal.
Rep. John Lewis, DGa., spoke at the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth’s funeral in Birmingham, Ala., calling him “one of the founding fathers of the new America” who put his life on the line in the 1950s and 1960s to end segregation and racial discrimination, adding: “Birmingham is different today. Alabama is different today. America is different today because this man passed our way.”
Joe LoCicero, whose 1990 Honda Accord passed the million-mile mark last week, was given a 2012 Honda Accord during a parade in Saco, Maine, and a Honda spokesman said it’s the first time the company has documented an Accord reaching 1 million miles.
Mark Lindquist, 51, an employee at a group home in Joplin, Mo., who was in a coma for nearly two months after he used his body to shield three residents with Down’s syndrome from a tornado, has been granted workers’ compensation for his injuries after the insurance company that initially denied his claim agreed to pay.
Mohammad Hassan Khalid, 18, of Ellicott City, Md., pleaded innocent in Philadelphia to charges that he helped Colleen LaRose, an American terrorist who called herself “Jihad Jane,” raise money and recruits for a Muslim holy war.
David Andrew Diehl, 49, was sentenced in Austin, Texas, to 50 years in prison for making videos of himself sexually molesting girls as young as 3.
Michelle Obama
is writing a book about her White House produce garden that will be called American Grown: How the White House Kitchen Garden Inspires Families, Schools and Communities, Crown Publishers announced.
Marsha McDonald, a junior high English teacher in Mineral Wells, Texas, has resigned after school district officials received complaints that she was giving anti-Catholic tracts to her pupils.
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