Jay Nixon, the Democratic governor of Missouri, said his administration will stop making electronic copies of people’s concealed-gun permits, reversing a policy that Republican lawmakers had widely denounced as an invasion of privacy.
Spc. William Colton Millay, 24, of Owensboro, Ky., an Alaska-based military policeman, will serve 16 years in prison and will be dishonorably discharged from the Army for selling secrets to an FBI undercover agent who he believed was a Russian spy, a panel of eight military members has decided.
President Barack Obama is making dinner plans with more lawmakers and will break bread with 12 Democratic senators today at the Jefferson Hotel in Washington, where last month he dined with Republicans.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president whose country’s nuclear program is the source of acrimony between Tehran and the West, stopped in the uranium-rich West African nation of Niger, although officials discounted that the mineral was the reason for his visit.
Sister Marguerite Kloos, 55, a southwest Ohio nun who cast a ballot on behalf of a nun who died before last year’s presidential election, has pleaded guilty to an illegal-voting charge, though the conviction will be erased if Kloos fulfills a diversion program, including community service.
Chuck Hagel, the defense secretary who faced tough questions during his confirmation hearing on whether he was sufficiently supportive of Israel, said during congressional testimony that he will be traveling to the Jewish state in a few days, his first trip to the Mideast ally since he took over at the Pentagon.
Nguyen Viet Tien, Vietnam’s deputy minister of health, said the Southeast Asian nation should legalize same-sex marriage immediately, an action that would make it the first Asian country to take such a step.
David Tarloff, 45, a schizophrenic man accused of killing New York psychologist Kathryn Faughey in her Upper East Side office five years ago, will face a retrial after his murder case ended in a mistrial, as a jury told a judge that it was hopelessly deadlocked.
Ammar Harris, 27, a self-described pimp accused of killing three people in a shooting and fiery crash on the Las Vegas Strip, was back in Las Vegas after he was transferred under tight security from Los Angeles, authorities said.
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