George H.W. Bush, 89, the former president, shaved his head to show solidarity for a Secret Service agent’s 2-year-old son, identified only as Patrick, who is undergoing treatment for leukemia.
Caroline Kennedy, 55, the daughter of the late President John F. Kennedy, was nominated by President Barack Obama as the next U.S. ambassador to Japan.
Maria Alekhina, a member of a Russian punk group whose members were convicted of hooliganism after a performance against President Vladimir Putin in Moscow’s main cathedral last year, lost her appeal of a previous court ruling that denied her an early release.
Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, confirmed that Jane Austen will become the new face on England’s 10-pound notes, accompanied by a quote from Pride and Prejudice stating, “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!”
Tracy Martin, the father of slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, told members of Congress that he wants his son’s name on a federal law that would make it a crime to profile minors and kill them in self-defense.
Gonzalo Ruiz said he considers himself “civilly married” to his domestic partner, Carlos Hernando Rivera, after the same-sex couple became the first in Colombia to have their civil union legalized by a judge.
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, received the White House’s condemnation over his comments about aliens brought illegally to the U.S. as children, having told a conservative news website that “for every one who’s a valedictorian, there’s another 100 out there that weigh 130 pounds and they’ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert.”
Pedro Guerra-Ruiz, 34, of Rio Grande City, Texas, was sentenced in Corpus Christi to 15 years in prison for trying to smuggle methamphetamine across the border in a shampoo bottle.
Hassel Junior Barber, a 50-year-old homeless man in Kingston, N.Y., gave to police a wallet containing $485 that he found on a sidewalk and said he did not want anything in return.
Marc Fucarile, 34, the last hospitalized Boston Marathon bombing victim, who lost his right leg above the knee, broke his spine, as well as bones in his left leg and foot, ruptured both eardrums and suffered severe burns and shrapnel wounds, got into a waiting car that took him home from a rehabilitation center.
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