Rob Ford, the mayor of Toronto who last year acknowledged he had smoked crack cocaine, was mocked on Twitter after mistakenly tweeting that people should set their clocks an hour back instead of forward for daylight saving time.
John Kerry, the U.S. secretary of state, made light of spying on U.S. citizens at the Washington, D.C., Gridiron dinner, an annual gathering of journalists and public figures, joking that it was “so nice to put faces to the metadata.”
Brady Williams, 43, a Utah polygamist with five wives and 24 children, said going public with his family’s story, which will be featured on TLC’s reality TV show My Five Wives, was liberating and “like coming out of the closet.”
Joe Biden, the U.S. vice president, said in an interview published in the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio that “the situation in Venezuela is alarming” and that President Nicolas Maduro has tried to distract the people there “by concocting totally false and outlandish conspiracy theories about the United States,” a claim Caracas called disrespectful.
Pope Francisand a bus full of cardinals and bishops have traveled to Ariccia in the hills south of Rome to a retreat house for spiritual exercises, breaking with recent papal tradition of prayers and meditation at the Vatican during the 40-day Lenten period.
Justin Shaw Baker, a 25-year-old former hotel security guard in Jackson, Tenn., was sentenced to a year in prison for civil-rights violations for spitting on a Torah and writing phrases such as “Hail Satan” on it and Jewish prayer books that belonged to guests at the DoubleTree Hotel where he worked.
The Dalai Lama called China a “great nation” but criticized its governmental system as “harmful” during an address at Washington’s National Cathedral, saying a number of its people want more freedom and transparency.
Elias Jaua, the foreign minister of Venezuela, said 90 percent of his government’s $1 billion debt to Panama is fraudulent and criminal charges are likely after the government paid businessmen for imports that purportedly never arrived.
Roger Dixon, a Pointe Coupee Parish school-bus driver in Louisiana, was suspended for six months without pay and stripped of tenure after a sleeping 5-year-old student was left in the back of his bus for several hours in December.
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