Hillary Rodham Clinton, who hasn’t said whether she’ll launch another presidential campaign in 2016, met President Barack Obama for lunch of salad, grilled chicken and pasta jambalaya served on the patio just outside the Oval Office.
Peter Newsham, assistant District of Columbia police chief, said a woman was arrested after green paint was found splattered inside two chapels at the Washington National Cathedral and police were investigating her regarding two similar incidents on the National Mall, including at the Lincoln Memorial.
William Simmons, 51, a five-time Buffalo wing-eating champion known as El Wingador, pleaded guilty to a cocaine distribution charge in New Jersey.
Teresa Giudice, 41, and her husband Giuseppe “Joe” Giudice, 43, of The Real Housewives of New Jersey were indicted on federal fraud charges, accused of exaggerating their income while applying for loans before their reality-TV show debuted in 2009, then hiding their improving fortunes in a bankruptcy filing after their first season aired.
Anthony Castro, whose father, Ariel Castro, admitted kidnapping, raping and enslaving three women for about a decade in Cleveland, said on NBC’s Today show that his father belongs in prison for the rest of his life and that he has nothing to say to his father and will not visit him in prison.
Matthew Dyer, a Maine lawyer who was dragged from his tent and attacked by a polar bear in Canada, has a broken jaw and neck injuries but is improving in a Montreal hospital, said his wife, Jeanne Wells.
Cesar Varvagan, 11, of Orem, Utah, was airlifted to a hospital but is expected to recover after he tumbled down a 200-foot rock slope while hiking with his family near a scenic waterfall in northern Utah, authorities said.
Dave Brown, third officer with the London Fire Brigade, said he doesn’t know “whether it’s the [Fifty Shades of Grey] effect, but the number of incidents involving items like handcuffs seems to have gone up,” as the brigade said its crews have freed hundreds of people with body parts trapped in household objects in the last three years, including 79 people trapped in handcuffs.
Amir Jafarpour, a senior Iranian official, said Iran has ordered 315 subway cars from China in place of payment for oil by money transfers that can’t be made because of sanctions.
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