John Paul Stevens, who retired from the Supreme Court in 2010, said he believes it’s appropriate for justices to factor in politics when weighing a decision to step aside, adding that “you have to have an interest in who’s going to fill your shoes.”
Jose Carlos Bergantinos Diaz, a Spanish art dealer who is wanted in the U.S. after his business partner, Glafira Rosales, was charged with taking in $30 million for counterfeit artwork sold to two Manhattan galleries, was so surprised by his arrest at a hotel in Seville that he required medical attention, Spanish officials said.
Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, said the next round of high-level talks on its nuclear program will be held in New York next month on the sidelines of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty conference.
Mehrzad Malekzadeh, 36, of Sugar Land, Texas, was arrested and a Houston Wal-Mart was locked down about four hours after police said Malekzadeh was found in the parking lot with unknown devices on his body and had a nonworking pipe bomb in his car.
Waleed al-Jassim, deputy editor-in-chief of Al Watan in Kuwait, said the publication will contest a court ruling that suspended Al Watan and Alam Al Yawm newspapers and two television stations because of articles about a secret probe into allegations of a coup plot.
Aaron Goempel, 27, of Pittsburgh was charged with simple and aggravated assault after police said he threw hard-boiled eggs at his girlfriend when she accused him of cheating on her, then tried to attack officers who were called to the scene.
Roberto Rodriguez, 20, of Palmdale, Calif., was arrested and is expected to be charged with vehicular manslaughter, accused of drunken driving and crashing his SUV into an apartment building, killing a 16-year-old girl.
George Whitesides, chief executive officer of Virgin Galactic, which plans to award a United Arab Emirates citizen a free spot aboard a spaceship when it begins ferrying tourists, said the contest is a way to give back after a government-backed firm invested $280 million in the company.
Nina Davuluri asked officials at Central York High School in York, Pa., to reconsider a three-day inschool suspension issued to Patrick Farves, 18, who asked the Miss America pageant winner to the prom when she was a speaker at an assembly.
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