Caroline Kennedy, the U.S. ambassador to Japan whose endorsement of Barack Obama in 2008 was a setback for Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign, told ABC News that she would “absolutely” support Clinton should she decide to run for president again.
Chris Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, said at a public meeting in Brick that he would have stopped aides from blocking lanes to the George Washington Bridge if he had known about the plan.
President Vladimir Putin of Russia said at a media forum in St. Petersburg that the Internet originally was a “CIA project” and “is still developing as such,” and that to resist that influence, Russia needs to “fight for its interests” online.
Charlotte Bell, 10, a girl in the front row during Michelle Obama’s annual question-and-answer session with the children of Executive Office of the President employees, said her father had been out of work for three years and then handed the first lady his resume.
House Speaker John Boehner, speaking to a Rotary Club in Middletown, Ohio, expressed frustration with others in Congress who he says are reluctant to tackle immigration to fix what he says is a broken system and mocked them in a whiny voice, saying, “Here’s the attitude: ‘Oh, don’t make me do this. Oh, this is too hard.’”
Naeem Williams, a former soldier who testified that he often beat his daughter Talia because of her bathroom accidents and because he was taking out his marital frustrations on the child, was convicted by a federal jury in Honolulu of murder in the 5-year-old’s July 2005 beating death.
Jorge Torrez, 25, an ex-Marine, was sentenced to death in Virginia for murdering Navy Petty Officer Amanda Snell in 2009, after a federal jury concluded that he had been responsible for a series of violent, sexually motivated attacks on women and girls in the past nine years.
Mike Reda, a 67-year-old grandfather who told police he was filled with rage and alcohol when he shot Deborah Socia, 59, and Maria Gonzalez, 61, at a Detroit retirement home, was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole.
Dezerah Silsby, 22, an Ashland, Ohio, woman accused of using ice cream to lure a mentally disabled woman and her child into captivity in a forced-labor case, was sentenced to nearly four years in prison.
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