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Michael Bloomberg, the independent mayor of New York, has asked more than 1,000 top donors in his city to keep from contributing to the campaigns of Arkansas’ U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor and three other Senate Democrats who voted against gun-control measures.

Jan Cooper, 72, of Anaheim, Calif., shot at and narrowly missed a man trying to break into her home and said she doesn’t regret defending herself and her husband, Bob, an 85-year-old World War II veteran who uses a wheelchair, in the encounter that preceded the arrest of a suspect.

The Rev. Charles Engelhardt and former teacher Bernard Shero received prison terms of at least six years in a sex-abuse case that took down Monsignor William Lynn at the Philadelphia Archdiocese.

Stephen Fishler, CEO of ComicConnect.com, said a rare copy of the comic book featuring Superman’s first appearance that went undiscovered for more than 70 years in a Minnesota house has sold for $175,000 to a “hard-core, golden-age comic-book collector.”

Beryl Howell, a federal judge in Washington who is an appointee of President Barack Obama’s, threw out a law barring processions and expressive banners on the Supreme Court grounds on the basis that the law is too broad.

George H.W. Bush, the 41st president, appeared in an 89th birthday photograph released by his office Wednesday sporting Superman socks, complete with tiny capes on the back, while driving a golf cart at the family’s summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine.

Drew Ryser, a white former Houston police officer whose 2010 beating of Chad Holley, a black teenage burglary suspect, was caught on surveillance video, will serve two years of probation and pay a $1,000 fine as part of an agreement forged between defense attorneys and prosecutors after his conviction.

Chloe McCardel, 28, of Australia, who was attempting to become the first person to swim the nearly 100 miles of the Straits of Florida nonstop without a protective shark cage, had to end her attempt after 11 hours when she was stung by a jellyfish. President Barack Obama campaigned for Democrat Edward Markey ahead of the U.S. Senate special election June 25 in Massachusetts, telling supporters in Boston that the veteran lawmaker will continue the state’s legacy of sending “tough” and “smart” leaders to Washington.

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