Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former secretary of state and U.S. senator, told a Canadian audience that she hoped the U.S. would elect a woman to the White House because it would send “exactly the right historical signal,” but left unsaid whether she might try again to be the one.
Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, said in a speech at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington that President Barack Obama’s administration is fostering a “culture of intimidation” that encourages government workers to suppress free speech.
Anthony Marshall, 89, the son of the Manhattan society doyenne Brooke Astor, surrendered to begin a prison sentence of one to three years for stealing millions of dollars from his mother during her final years, marking the end of a seven-year legal odyssey.
Fred Teeven, the Dutch justice minister, has proposed as a deficit-reduction measure putting a personal computer in every prison cell in the country, reasoning that prisoners would use them to fill in their food, visiting and exercise schedules and thus reduce the amount of time worked by guards.
Ndaba Mandela, a grandson of Nelson Mandela, said it was hoped that the anti-apartheid activist will be headed home soon, as the 94-year-old former president marked two weeks in the hospital being treated for a recurring lung infection.
Gen. Raymond Odierno, the Army chief of staff, said during a news conference at Fort Bliss, Texas, that eradicating sexual assault will require not only revamping training programs but also holding conversations with soldiers to change the climate within their ranks.
Marlene Davis, a St. Louis alderman, is proposing legislation making it a violation to wear pants below the waist if skin or undergarments are exposed.
Cynthia Ambrose, 44, a former San Antonio teacher, was convicted of official oppression for telling elementary school pupils to hit a 6-year-old schoolmate for being a bully.
Lisa Wong, 50, an ex-prostitute accused of attacking a co-worker with a claw hammer in a dispute over missing beer at a rural Nevada brothel, will be retried on an attempted-murder charge after a judge declared a mistrial because a juror sent text messages to a public defender about the jury, prosecutors said.
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