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Rahm Emanuel, mayor of Chicago, has ordered a review of city pension fund holdings to determine whether fund managers hold stakes in companies that manufacture or sell military-style guns and if so, wants those holdings sold, adding: “We cannot support or invest in companies that profit from the proliferation of assault weapons and the violence these guns bring to our communities.”

Malik Obama, 54, the stepbrother of U.S. President Barack Obama, has announced he is running for governor of the western Kenyan county of Siaya.

Nancy Breberg, 67, is expected to make a complete recovery, her husband, Ron Breberg, said, after the diabetic woman spent 18 hours trapped in her sport utility vehicle, which had slid off the road, down an embankment and into a Minnesota pond, until she was spotted by a bicyclist.

Tareq Salahi, who gained fame with his then-wife, Michaele, when they attended a White House state dinner uninvited, said he is leaving Virginia’s GOP gubernatorial nomination contest and starting an independent bid for the office.

Justice Clarence Thomas, known for his silence during Supreme Court arguments, spoke for the first time since Feb. 22, 2006, cracking what people in the courtroom treated as a joke, but one that was only partially recorded in the official transcript.

Nuon Chea, 86, a former Khmer Rouge leader known as Brother No. 2 who is facing war crimes charges in a trial by a U.N.-backed court, has been hospitalized in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for acute bronchitis.

Patrick Cardoso Lopes and Paulo Pires Depina, both 24, and Aderito Lopes Deandrade, 22, have pleaded innocent in Stoughton, Mass., to charges of disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, and assault and battery on a police officer over allegations they violently brawled at a baby shower.

Jenny Sanford, the former first lady of South Carolina, said she will not run for an open congressional seat, telling reporters that her job as a mother is more rewarding and important than going to Congress.

Sylvia Nasar, the Columbia University professor who wrote A Beautiful Mind, which tells the life story of mathematician John Nash, has filed suit against the university for money that she contends she is owed from an endowment grant.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 01/15/2013

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