Correction: Drew Hammill, spokesman for House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, said Friday that Pelosi is working hard to win back the majority for Democrats and that, if the effort is successful, her colleagues would elect their speaker. An "In the news" item incorrectly described what the spokesman said.
Nancy Pelosi, 73, the House Democratic leader, said in an interview in the National Journal that she doesn’t wish to be speaker again, though a Pelosi spokesman later said his boss is working hard to win back the majority for Democrats and that, if successful, her colleagues would elect her their speaker.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court justice, will officiate at this weekend’s same-sex wedding of Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser and government economist John Roberts in what is believed to be a first for a member of the nation’s highest court.
Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist sentenced to death for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, has arrived at death row at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas.
Matt Romney, 41, a son of 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, said he will not be a candidate in San Diego to succeed Bob Filner, the Democrat whose tenure as mayor ended under a cloud of sexual-harassment allegations.
Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, made her first public appearance since giving birth to Prince George last month, joining her husband, Prince William, at a running event in Wales.
William Reynolds, a 73-year-old man who was given the first civil marijuana ticket in St. Johnsbury, Vt., said he had planted some seeds he found in a box and “got spanked” by police after it grew into a “pot” plant.
Daniel Bryant Gray, 31, whose 3-month-old son Jamison Dean Gray died after being left in a parked car in the Phoenix summertime heat, was smoking marijuana next to the car with a co-worker and was charged with manslaughter and child abuse, police said.
Robin Gutheridge, 26, a bank robbery suspect who officials say was trying to elude Syracuse, N.Y., police who were searching for him in an apartment building, jumped into a garbage chute and survived a 200-foot fall into trash in the basement, suffering fractures and internal injuries, and will be charged with robbery when his condition improves.
Consuelo Marshall, a judge in Los Angeles, ruled that a lesbian Army veteran, Tracey Cooper-Harris, and her spouse, Maggie Cooper-Harris, should be entitled to disability benefits given the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down part of the Defense of Marriage Act.
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