LITTLE ROCK — George W. Bush
will not go to Denver as planned this weekend to attend the “Global Leadership Summit” of the Young Presidents’ Organization because WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was also invited to the event, a spokesman for the former president said.
Rolando Crespo, the Puerto Rico House majority whip, tested positive for cocaine use during a mandatory drug test for legislators in the U.S. territory and faced a call for his resignation by Gov. Luis Fortuno.
Michael Secaur, a homeless man in southeast Michigan, says he is seeking out a woman who “did an oops” and accidentally gave him a gold ring laced with diamonds when she handed him a handful of change while he was panhandling at an intersection.
Daniel Morales, 58, a homeless man in New York City who was given a prepaid cell phone to create a Twitter account as part of a project on homeless people called Underheard in New York, was able to use the social-networking site to reunite with his 27-year-old daughter, Sarah Rivera, after 11 years.
Jeremy Bernard, currently the senior adviser to the ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in Paris, was named by the White House as its new social secretary, becoming the first man and the first open homosexual to fill that role.
P resident Barack Obama
signed a threemonth extension of key surveillance provisions of the USAPATRIOT Act, including one allowing officials to set roving wiretaps to monitor multiple communication devices.
Timothy Kopra, an astronaut who was bumped from space shuttle Discovery’s final flight after a bicycle crash, hobbled on crutches into Mission Control at Cape Canaveral, Fla., and told his orbiting friends that he’s with them “in spirit.”
Kathy Crook, a Girl Scout leader in Georgia, said the younger girls in her troop thought they were headed to jail when a police officer told them to quit selling cookies without a permit at a strip mall in Villa Rica, with city officials later calling the episode a misunderstanding, giving the Scoutsa permit and offering them a pizza party.
David Viens, a restaurant owner who jumped off an 80-foot cliff after being confronted by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies, is expected to survive and will be arrested in the murder of his wife, Dawn, who mysteriously disappeared 16 months ago, a sheriff’s official said.
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