President Barack Obama plans to buy new health insurance through the online marketplace created by his signature health-care law, spokesman Jay Carney said, confirming a promise the White House made nearly three years ago.
Laure Prouvost, 35, a French filmmaker and installation artist, won this year’s Turner Prize, the British award for contemporary art, with a video installation that included a short film shown in a room featuring a table set for a tea party.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, gave Pope Francis a silver menorah and a book about the Inquisition in Spain written by his late father, an expert on the Catholic Church’s forced conversion and expulsion of Jews in the 15th century, during an audience at the Vatican.
Anja Strieder, spokesman for Germany’s center-left Social Democrats, confirmed a report that a ban on so-called flat-rate sex offered by some brothels was agreed to during coalition talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Union bloc.
Zhang Yimou, 62, an acclaimed Chinese filmmaker, and his wife violated China’s strict family planning rules by having three children without approval and before they were married, local authorities said.
Angelo Houssou, a judge whose rulings ran afoul of President Yayi Boni of the West African nation of Benin, called The Associated Press from an airport in New York, saying he fled the country over the weekend and is seeking political asylum in the United States.
Edward Kramer, 52, the co-founder of the science fiction convention Dragon Con, pleaded guilty to multiple counts of child molestation in a Gwinnett County court in Georgia and was sentenced to five years in prison and will receive credit for 26 months served, with the remainder to be spent on house arrest.
David Woolfork, the sheriff of Madison County, Tenn., was indicted on charges of attempted aggravated sexual battery and domestic assault, accused by one of his deputies of sexually assaulting her.
Chris Christie, 51, the newly re-elected Republican governor of New Jersey, said at a news conference in Trenton that he doesn’t think much about his status as front-runner for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination and described the designation as “meaningless” in a race that’s three years away.
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