Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose lifelong public-service career includes turns as U.S. secretary of state, presidential candidate, U.S. senator, and Arkansas and U.S. first lady, will receive the 2013 Liberty Medal at a ceremony in Philadelphia, with the medal’s sponsors and partners saying Clinton’s years of service exemplify the qualities that the award was established to honor.
Chris Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey and potential 2016 presidential candidate who in January vetoed a same-sex marriage bill, said on a radio program that the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling erasing part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act was a “bad decision” and an example of “judicial supremacy.”
Marcus Curry, 27, was charged in Memphis with aggravated abuse to animals and held in lieu of $40,000 bond over allegations he put a puppy in a dishwasher and ran the machine, killing the animal.
Tami Ostmark, an executive with KSL-TV in Utah, said the Mormon church-owned NBC station will begin showing first-run Saturday Night Live episodes this fall, after years of refusing to air the show, as part of a plan to make the station’s lineup stronger and improve its relationship with NBC.
Anthony Foxx, the mayor of Charlotte, N.C., and a political ally of President Barack Obama, was unanimously confirmed by the Senate as transportation secretary, succeeding Ray LaHood.
Eric Williams, a former justice of the peace, and his wife, Kim, were indicted on capital-murder charges in the slayings of two Texas prosecutors shot earlier this year, one outside a courthouse and the other at home with his wife.
Larry Robinson, the interim president of Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, lifted the suspension on the Marching 100 band about 18 months after a drum major’s death led to the departure of school leaders and the implementation of strict rules to crack down on hazing in the band, fraternities and other campus groups.
Sheena Johnson, 27, the mother of two children found living in a 5-foot-by-10-foot storage unit in New Jersey, was indicted on child-endangerment charges.
Gary Locke, the American ambassador to China, met with residents and officials on a rare trip to Tibet and urged authorities to allow foreigners to travel more freely in the tightly controlled region, the U.S. Embassy said.
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