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Correction: David Silverman, the president of the New Jersey-based national atheist group American Atheists Inc., was granted his request for a New Jersey license plate with “ATHE1ST” on it after a brief flap in which a Motor Vehicle Commission clerk told him his proposed plate was offensive before officials reversed the decision. An item below incorrectly spelled what was on Silverman's license plate.

David Silverman, the president of the New Jersey-based national atheist group American Atheists Inc., was granted his request for a New Jersey license plate featuring the word “ATHEIST” after a brief flap in which a Motor Vehicle Commission clerk told him his proposed plate was offensive before officials reversed the decision.

Chelsea Manning, the American soldier previously known as Bradley Manning who was sentenced to 35 years in prison for giving government secrets to WikiLeaks, is doing well as she goes through processing at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., a lawyer for Manning, David Coombs, said in a blog post.

Jiamei Tian, 58, who was arrested over the green-paint spattering of landmarks in Washington, D.C., has been moved from a halfway house to a psychiatric ward, her attorney said during a hearing in District of Columbia Superior Court.

Robel Phillipos, 19, a friend of the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was indicted by a federal grand jury over claims he conspired to hide evidence linking Tsarnaev to the April 15 terrorist attack.

Shellie Zimmerman, George Zimmerman’s wife, said she’s going to have to “think about” whether she stays married to him in an interview aired on ABC’s Good Morning America after she pleaded guilty to lying during a bail hearing after her husband’s arrest for the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in February2012.

President Barack Obama will speak to the AFL-CIO’s Quadrennial Convention on Sept. 9 in Los Angeles.

Bob Woodward, who along with Washington Post colleague Carl Bernstein helped break the Watergate scandal in the 1970s that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon, will teach a journalism seminar at Yale University in the spring.

Rolf Harris, 83, a British broadcasting stalwart for decades, was charged with indecent assault and making indecent images of children related to purported cases in the 1980s.

Wendy Davis, a Democratic state senator in Texas who waged an almost 13-hour filibuster against an abortion bill in the Legislature and who had said she would make an announcement on whether she would run for governor shortly after Labor Day, said she is delaying a statement about her future plans to care for her ailing father.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 08/30/2013

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