Bob Filner, 70, the Democratic mayor of San Diego, said in a news briefing at City Hall that he’ll enter a behavioral-counseling clinic Aug. 5 for two weeks amid allegations that he sexually harassed women, including a retired Navy rear admiral, a state university dean and his spokesman.
Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, offered an endorsement of Hillary Rodham Clinton in the event she runs for president in 2016 and told PBS News-Hour that he had “such admiration” for Bill Clinton’s presidency but thinks the former first lady could top his record and “handle things probably even better” than her husband.
President Barack Obama will bestow the Medal of Honor on Army Staff Sgt. Ty Carter on Aug. 26 for courageous action during a day-long firefight in Afghanistan during which Carter killed enemy troops, resupplied ammunition to American fighters, rendered first aid and risked his own life to save an injured soldier pinned down by enemy fire.
Noam Chomsky, the American academic, said at the Geneva Press Club that Europe could provide the key to success for a U.S.-brokered resumption of talks between Israel and the Palestinians, provided the Europeans break from American policies supporting Israel.
Sybrina Fulton, the mother of slain teenager Trayvon Martin, told a National Urban League gathering in Philadelphia to use her tragedy to stop the same thing from happening to another child and blamed Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law for allowing her son’s killer to go free.
Ingrid Lederhaas-Okun, 46, a former executive with Tiffany & Co., pleaded guilty in Manhattan to charges that she stole an assortment of jewelry worth more than $2 million from the famous Fifth Avenue company’s inventory.
Alice Swanson, who tripped on a speed bump and injured her shoulder in 2007 at a Harrah’s casino in Laughlin, Nev., has been awarded $775,000 after a Nevada Supreme Court ruling.
Joseph Zagami and his wife, Joanne, won $1 million on a scratch-off lottery ticket the Massachusetts couple dug out of the trash after inadvertently throwing it away.
John Pike, a former police officer who pepper-sprayed students during an Occupy protest at the University of California, Davis, is appealing for workers’ compensation, claiming he suffered psychiatric injury from the 2011 confrontation.
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