LITTLE ROCK — Kristina Green, a Maricopa, Ariz., woman who said she knew she could never compete with her neighbor’s elaborate Christmas light display, is attracting attention with her response - about 600 red and green lights spelling out “Ditto” and making an arrow that points toward the neighbor’s home and its approximately 16,000 lights.
Jatenderpal Singh Bhullar, 25, a soldier with the Scots Guards regiment, has become the first guard to parade outside Buckingham Palace while wearing his traditional turban, said Britain’s Ministry of Defense.
Ken Salazar, interior secretary, said a criticized inscription will be removed from the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, rather than cut into the granite to replace it with a fuller quotation, adding that the paraphrase from King’s “Drum Major” speech will be removed by carving grooves over the lettering to match existing marks in the sculpture.
Shaker Masri, 29, a Chicago man who pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support and resources to a terrorist group over a plot to attend a Somalia training camp in hopes of becoming a suicide bomber, has been sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison.
George H.W. Bush, 88, continues “to make positive progress” as he recovers from a bronchitis-related cough, said a spokesman at Houston’s Methodist Hospital, but the former president isn’t going home yet.
Hun Sen, Cambodia’s prime minister who in 2007 announced he was disinheriting his adopted daughter because he was disappointed that she had taken a same-sex partner, is urging people in the Southeast Asian nation not to discriminate against their gay countrymen.
Michelle Obama delivered about 900 gifts from White House employees to Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C., for the Marine Corps’ Toys for Tots campaign and thanked military families for their willingness to volunteer.
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