Adolphus Busch IV, whose family founded beer giant Anheuser Busch, resigned from the National Rifle Association to protest the organization’s direction and “distorted values” and criticized the NRA’s decision to fight an expansion of gun background checks.
Terrance Gainer, the Senate sergeant-at-arms, said that U.S. Senate offices will begin receiving mail again on Monday, days after a Mississippi man, Paul Kevin Curtis, was arrested on charges he sent ricin-laced letters addressed to President Barack Obama and Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss.
Prince Harry, 28, said he will join a race to the South Pole later this year, leading a team of wounded British military personnel against counterparts from Australia, Canada and the U.S., and warned his competitors that the Brits would have some tea “ready for you when you join us at the Pole.”
Chris Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, unveiled a plan to curb gun violence in his state that includes expanding government-funded mental-health treatment, requiring parental sign-off before children can buy or rent violent video games, and mandating that IDs presented by would-be gun-owners be government-issued.
Mikhail Gorbachev, 82, the former Soviet leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, painted a dim picture of the world’s environmental progress in remarks to reporters in Geneva by video link, railing against governments for falling short on nuclear disarmament, waste, development and climate change.
Michael McKevitt, 63, the founder of the Real IRA paramilitary group that opposed Northern Ireland’s Good Friday peace settlement of 1998, failed in Dublin to have his 2003 conviction for “directing terror” overturned.
Zaccary John Kern and Robert Eric Bottenhagen, both 21, were arrested in Montana on suspicion of negligent homicide after four bodies were removed from a burned-out mobile home near Billings.
Sue Hutchison, 82, of the Birmingham suburb of Hoover, Ala., was arrested on accusations of trying to arrange for three of her relatives to be killed over concerns about who would inherit her husband’s estate.
Ehud Olmert, who was forced to resign as Israel’s prime minister in 2009 to battle corruption allegations, joined forces with a leading Kazakh industrialist and an Israeli entrepreneur to launch a new high-tech venture.
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