Eric Holder, the U.S. attorney general, said in a memorandum that he will not need to furlough any Justice Department employees this fiscal year because of additional money in recently enacted legislation combined with steps to freeze hiring and cut contracting.
Don DeLillo, 76, author of the best-seller Underworld, won the first Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction and was praised in a statement by the library for his narratives “into the sociopolitical and moral life” of the United States.
Conrado Marrero of Cuba, a former Washington Senator and world’s oldest living former major league baseball player, celebrated his 102nd birthday at his modest Havana apartment.
Shimon Peres, the president of Israel and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has been invited to meet Pope Francis, according to a statement from the president’s office.
Kevin Wilson, 52, of Las Vegas, became so enraged at being turned away from speaking with a pastor that he plowed his Kia Spectra through an entrance and down the hall of Central Christian Church, then got out of the car and smashed furniture and knocked holes in walls until he was arrested on felony charges of burglary and destruction of property.
Mariela Castro, the daughter of Cuba’s President Raul Castro, will not be traveling to Philadelphia to accept an award for her gay-rights advocacy after the State Department denied her permission to attend the Equality Forum’s annual conference.
A.J. Clemente, a North Dakota news anchorman whose profanity-laced debut got him fired after one broadcast, appeared on Live with Kelly and Michael where hosts Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan offered him a job interviewing celebrities on the red carpet at the premiere of Pierce Brosnan’s film Love Is All you Need.
John Brickman Wall, 49, a Salt Lake City pediatrician, was arrested and charged with murder and aggravated burglary in the 2011 killing of his ex-wife, whose body was found in an overflowing bathtub with a knife stuck in her.
Robert Kennish, a Transportation Security Administration agent from New Jersey, is being credited with helping save the life of an elderly woman, on whom he performed CPR after she collapsed on a passenger ramp and stopped breathing at Newark Liberty International Airport.
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