Gov. Rick Perry of Texas expressed “disgust and disappointment” after The Sacramento Bee newspaper in California ran a cartoon depicting him saying “Business is Booming” and flanked by signs saying “Low Tax” and “Low Regs!” just before an explosion, and he demanded an apology for the “detestable attempt at satire” in the wake of a fertilizer plant explosion that killed 14 in his state.
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria had a mini-stroke, but the 76-year old suffered no serious complications and just needs to rest, his doctor told the state news agency.
Stephen Keogh, a 39-year-old Honolulu police officer who delivered a baby girl after her parents got stuck in rush-hour traffic, said that “in the academy, we don’t get ob-gyn training,” but added that he had experience because he helped deliver another baby on the same freeway last year.
Claire Jollain organized France’s first gay-marriage fair four days after Parliament legalized same-sex wedlock because, she said, she sensed pent-up demand among many homosexual couples who have long sought to tie the knot.
Michael Simon, an Oregon federal judge, ruled that limiting inmates’ personal mail to the sending and receiving of postcards, a practice common in several states, is unconstitutional.
Henrique Capriles, the loser of Venezuela’s contested presidential race, has said the opposition will boycott an audit of election results and challenge the results at the Supreme Court because the National Electoral Council did not accept his demand for the examination of registers containing voters’ signatures and fingerprints.
Joshua Chi, 23, of Vallejo, Calif., was arrested and held in lieu of $750,000 bond after he was accused of shooting at the father of a player in a Little League T-ball game after an argument.
Prince Philip, the husband of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and holder of the honorary title of colonel-in-chief of the Royal Canadian Regiment, wrapped up a two-day visit to Canada by awarding a regimental flag to a military battalion after the 91-year-old prince received the Order of Canada and the Order of Military Merit.
Stephen Breyer, the 74-year-old Supreme Court justice, is expected to make a full recovery from a shoulder-replacement surgery after a bicycle accident, a court spokesman said.
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