President Barack Obama signed legislation aimed at blocking Iran’s chosen ambassador to the United Nations, Hamid Aboutalebi, because of the Iranian’s ties to the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran but said he would treat the ban “as advisory” so as to not curtail his constitutional right to receive or reject ambassadors.
Pope Francis joined tens of thousands of faithful in listening to meditations read aloud during a Good Friday Way of the Cross procession in the Colosseum in Rome.
Cody Wygant, 24, was charged with third-degree murder and child neglect, accused of suffocating his 16-month-old son Daymeon so he could play video games on his Xbox and watch TV, sheriff’s deputies in Florida said.
Gil Voigt, an Ohio science teacher, was fired by the Fairfield Board of Education after a black student who said he wanted to become president claimed the teacher told him the nation didn’t need another black commander in chief.
Joanne Maura, a Massachusetts teacher who was told she could lose her job for failing to report that an 18-year-old student threw a chair at her, won’t be punished, school administrators in New Bedford said.
Kathleen Sebelius, the departing secretary of the Health and Human Services Department, is not considering running for the U.S. Senate in Kansas against Republican incumbent Pat Roberts, agency spokesman Dori Salcido said.
David Axelrod, a key figure behind Barack Obama’s two presidential-election victories, was recruited by Britain’s opposition Labor Party to help with leader Ed Miliband’s election bid next year.
James Edward Satterfield, 59, a Georgia man who was found guilty but mentally ill after prosecutors said he threatened to kill and eat a judge’s children, was sentenced to eight years in prison, followed by two years of probation.
Shannon Morgan, a New Jersey woman who said she was denied a license plate referring to atheism, has filed suit, claiming her online application for a plate reading “8THEIST” was rejected because it was deemed potentially offensive.
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