LITTLE ROCK — P resident Barack Obama
and wife Michelle stood in the orange glow of the White House’s northern portico on a snowy Saturday afternoon, passing out Halloween treats to trickor-treaters from capital-area elementary schools and children of military families.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s 66-year-old former president who led a vigorous expansion of his country’s economy and a more muscular foreign policy during his two terms before leaving office last year, will undergo chemotherapy to treat a cancerous tumor in his larynx.
Fausto Lopez, a Miami police officer, is accused of driving 120 mph on a turnpike because he was late for his off-duty job working security at a school and was arrested at gunpoint after leading police on a brief high-speed chase.
The Dalai Lama, Tibet’s exiled Buddhist leader, said while in Japan that China’s “ruthless policy” on Tibet prompted the recent deaths of Tibetan monks who set themselves on fire in protest of Beijing’s rule over the Himalayan region.
Marzieh Vafamehr, an actress who appeared in My Tehran for Sale, an Australian-backed film critical of Iran’s hard-line policies, was released from prison after an Iranian appeals court overturned her sentence of one year in prison and 90 lashes, Amnesty International said.
Robbin Evan Elsman, 58, who Tulsa police said had six gasoline bombs in his car, was arrested on arson charges on allegations he walked into a police station and said he wanted to burn down the city.
Gary Johnson, the former governor of New Mexico, just made the filing deadline Friday for the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary after catching a red-eye flight from Arizona and dodging an early winter storm targeting the Northeast.
Reince Priebus, the Republican National Committee chairman, told Bloomberg Television’s Political Capital With Al Hunt that questions about President Barack Obama’s citizenship are “a big distraction” and his party’s presidential candidates are dropping it.
Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic governor of New York who choreographed the successful push this year to win legalization of same-sex marriage, received a standing ovation at a dinner for his state’s largest gay-rights group, the Empire State Pride Agenda, and urged other states to follow New York’s lead and allow homosexual couples to wed.
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