Teresa Heinz Kerry, 74, has been moved to a rehabilitation hospital in Boston as the condition of the wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry continues to improve after she suffered a seizure recently at the couple’s home in Nantucket.
Philip Shenon, a former New York Times correspondent and best-selling author, has a currently untitled book coming out in October that alleges “powerful” people interfered with the Warren Commission’s efforts to determine whether Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in shooting President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, publisher Henry Holt and Co. announced.
Kenny Kramer, the real-life inspiration for the zany Kramer character on Seinfeld, has become a licensed minister and wants to perform marriages for couples who take his tour of New York City sites made famous in the TV sitcom, the Daily News reported.
Malala Yousafzai, who was shot last year on a school bus by a Taliban gunman in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, will be honored today, her 16th birthday, at the United Nations as a symbol for education for all children.
Kendra Villanueva, a pregnant New Mexico woman who along with her baby’s father, Ian Gordon, was struck by lightning while watching July Fourth fireworks in Albuquerque, had an emergency cesarean section and gave birth to Kimberly Samantha Rose Gordon, whom the couple also will call “little Flash Gordon.” President Barack Obama will meet with Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang on July 25 at the White House and discuss cooperation on regional issues and a trade partnership with Asian countries.
Meshael Alayban, a 42-year-old Saudi princess, was arrested in California and charged with one felony count of human trafficking on allegations of holding a Kenyan woman and forcing her to work against her will.
Marion Barry, the former four-term mayor of the District of Columbia and a current councilman, was censured by the city’s ethics board and fined $13,600 for accepting cash gifts from two city contractors.
Corey Donaldson, a 40-year-old Australian, was sentenced in Wyoming to 70 months in prison for a more than $140,000 bank robbery on New Year’s Eve that Donaldson, who likens himself to Robin Hood, says he committed so he could give money to the homeless and call attention to problems with the banking system.
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