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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., the son of former Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul, said at a breakfast sponsored by The Christian Science Monitor that he is considering a presidential campaign in 2016 but will not make a decision before next year.

Frank Soika, a police spokesman in Germany, said 25 employees of an auto parts company have been hospitalized as a precautionary measure after eating sandwiches laced with rat poison that were left at the company’s doorstep with a note saying they were a gift, though none of those hospitalized has shown symptoms of illness.

Michelle Obama, the first lady, praised a Maryland bill that helps veterans and their spouses find jobs, describing it in Annapolis as one of the best laws in the country aimed at helping military personnel and their families.

Sanjay Dutt, a popular Bollywood actor, was given more time by India’s Supreme Court to finish films before he goes to prison for a 1993 weapons conviction linked to a terror attack that killed 257 people in Mumbai, formerly Bombay.

Pat Quinn, the Democratic governor of Illinois, defended his state’s business climate as Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican, announced a trip to Chicago to lure jobs to Texas, saying of Perry, “He’s a big talker.”

Immaculee Ilibagiza, a Rwandan genocide survivor and author of Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust, became a U.S. citizen in Manhattan.

Willem-Alexander, the 45-year-old Dutch crown prince, said in his last major interview before he becomes king on April 30 that his subjects don’t have to address him as “Your Majesty.”

Randy Linn, 52, a former Marine from Indiana, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for starting a fire inside an Ohio mosque because he wanted revenge for the killings of American soldiers overseas.

Dennis Van Dusen, 64, a Chevy Chase, Md., landlord, pleaded guilty to hiding video cameras to record three tenants while they were nude or engaged in intimate acts with their boyfriends and will be sentenced at a later date.

Alan Horn, chairman of the Walt Disney Co., announced in Las Vegas that Disney would release Star Wars films every summer starting with Star Wars: Episode VII in 2015 and alternate films in the new trilogy with spinoff films drawn from the same universe.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 04/18/2013

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