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House Speaker John Boehner said while addressing a San Antonio audience that he's "nudged" former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush to seek the Republican nomination for president in 2016.

Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency leaker, and Chelsea Manning, a U.S. soldier convicted of providing classified documents to WikiLeaks, were offered honorary membership in the Chaos Computer Club, a German hacking group.

U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, a Republican facing a Tea Party challenge this year, will be on the ballot in Kansas' Aug. 5 GOP primary after a state elections board rejected a claim that the three-term senator is not truly a Kansas resident.

Sharon Giese, a plastic surgeon who has appeared on shows including Dr. Oz to talk about the procedures she offers, will pay $2.3 million to the husband and young children of 32-year-old Nanuet, N.Y., resident Adriana Porras, who died in June 2009 two days after a liposuction procedure.

Rick Scott, the Republican governor of Florida, signed a bill to establish a tax holiday for hurricane supplies and urged residents to "get ready. Hopefully we won't have a hurricane this year, but it's much better to be prepared."

Justin Alexander Teixeira, 25, a University of California, Berkeley, law school graduate, was sentenced to up to four years' probation and 16 hours of animal-shelter work per month for beheading a chicken-size exotic bird during a drunken escapade in October 2012 at a Las Vegas Strip resort.

Patrick Ruffner, 31, of Gonzales, La., was booked in Baton Rouge with driving on a suspended license and with first-offense driving while intoxicated, accused of driving to a state police headquarters while drunk to file an accident report.

Gustavo Glavinich, head of maintenance at the Paraguayan president's palace, where the west wing is infested with termites, told reporters that was "no danger of collapse, or anything of the sort."

Carolan Lynch, a former Mrs. South America, saw a murder charge against her in the 2007 strangling of her wealthy husband, Farouk Razack, dismissed after a judge in Guyana ruled there was no evidence to prove the case.

Jose Mujica, the 78-year-old Uruguayan president, said during an Oval Office visit with President Barack Obama that he wished he could visit other places in the United States during his trip but is growing old and doesn't travel much anymore.

A Section on 05/13/2014

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