President Barack Obama called on Senate Republicans to confirm Loretta Lynch as attorney general, saying in his weekly Internet address that Congress “should stop playing politics with law enforcement and national security.”
Stephen King, who lives in Maine but spends winters in Florida, said Maine Gov. Paul LePage should “man up and apologize” for erroneously saying during a radio address that the author has moved away and doesn’t pay income taxes in the state.
m Karim Wade of Senegal, who faces corruption charges after being accused of amassing $200 million while he served in the government of his father, former President Abdoulaye Wade, was chosen as the Democratic Party’s candidate in the next presidential election.
Joyce Hardin Garrard, 49, of Alabama was convicted and faces sentencing hearings this week CC in the February 2012 death of her granddaughter Savannah Hardin, 9, who was forced to run and carry wood for hours as punishment for telling a lie.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., called for a boycott of Saudi Arabia over its treatment of women and urged Hillary Rodham Clinton to return gifts to her family’s foundation from foreign countries including the Saudi kingdom, saying, “I don’t think you can be a champion of women’s rights when you take money from a regime that punishes women who are raped.”
Tomasz Siemoniak, the defense minister of Poland, where U.S. troops are training to rapidly deploy Patriot missile launchers, said the drills are a response to “events in the east of Europe,” where fighting between Russia-backed rebels and Ukrainian forces is threatening regional security.
Charlo Greene, a former reporter who last year quit her job on live TV and announced she was becoming an advocate to legalize recreational marijuana in Alaska, had her medical marijuana dispensary raided by police who said they received reports that the drug was being sold illegally.
Saed Eldin al-Jamal, a resident of the Gaza city of Rafah whose family bought two lion cubs from a local zoo, said the 2½-month-old pets play with his grandchildren at his home but will be caged in about a month for the family’s safety.
Susan Hemeryck, 55, a Florida woman accused of damaging a satanic holiday display last year at the state’s Capitol, had her criminal-mischief charge dropped by prosecutors days before her trial was to begin.