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President Barack Obama

has agreed to display the District of Columbia’s “Taxation Without Representation” license plate on his official vehicles, the White House announced, saying the president believes it is unfair for D.C. families to work hard and pay taxes without having a vote in Congress.

Nelson Mandela Myers, 27, said cries for help drew him to an Upper Darby, Pa., park where he found a 5-year-old girl who about 20 hours earlier had been abducted from her Philadelphia elementary school by a stranger claiming to be the child’s mother.

Chantal Beyer, 24, suffered a collapsed lung and broken ribs in a rhino attack that occurred moments after a South African game-park owner told her to “stand just a little bit closer” to two rhinos as he snapped a picture, the country’s Beeld newspaper reported.

Newt Gingrich, former GOP speaker of the House, said Republicans are making a mistake by using the issue of increasing the borrowing limit to challenge the president on spending issues, telling CBS This Morning that “in the end, it’s a threat they can’t sustain” because no one wants to see the country default on its debts.

Justin Shawn Baker, 24, has been charged in Jackson, Tenn., with vandalism over allegations the hotel security guard defaced a copy of the Torah and Jewish prayer books.

Chelsea Clinton, 32, will be the honorary chairman of the National Day of Service, President Barack Obama’s inaugural event to get Americans to serve their communities.

Timothy Cannon, 63, ex-director of human resources at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, pleaded guilty in a Washington, D.C., federal court to negotiating a job for himself at the Gallup Organization while he was supervising Gallup’s multimillion-dollar contract with FEMA.

Leon Panetta, the American defense secretary, is expected to meet with Pope Benedict XVI today in an audience at the Vatican as part of a week-long swing across Europe meeting with defense ministers to talk about ongoing conflicts.

Maria Waltherr-Willard, 61, a longtime high school teacher in Cincinnati, is suing the school district, contending that administrators discriminated against her by transferring her to a middle school, where being around seventh- and eighthgraders triggered her fear of young children, adversely affecting her health and forcing her to retire.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 01/16/2013

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