Jimmy Carter, the former president, said at a conference in Atlanta on women and religion that religious authorities perpetuate misguided doctrines of male superiority from the Catholic Church forbidding women from becoming priests to some African cultures mutilating the genitals of young girls.
Catherine Kieu, 50, a California woman who cut off her husband’s penis and threw it in a garbage disposal, was sentenced to life in prison with possibility of parole in seven years.
Rick Perry, the Republican governor of Texas, told conservative radio host Laura Ingraham that the abortion restrictions bill stopped by a Senate filibuster and raucous crowd in the chamber gallery will pass “overwhelmingly” when lawmakers return to the Texas Capitol next week. David Gonzales, a spokesman for CenturyLink, said the culprit behind a 20-hour Internet and cellphone failure in northern New Mexico was a hungry beaver that chewed through the fiber line.
Lonnie Snowden, the father of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, acknowledged that his son broke the law but said on NBC’s Today show that he doesn’t think his son committed treason.
Jared Marcum, 14, a West Virginia middle school student who refused a teacher’s order to remove a National Rifle Association T-shirt, saw his obstruction charge dismissed by a judge.
Nicole Culwell of Howell, Mich., who didn’t expect to give birth until mid-July, delivered a healthy girl along a Michigan roadway with help from her husband, Matthew, and coaching from a 911 dispatcher.
Andrea Sanderlin, a mother of three from the New York City suburb of Scarsdale in wealthy Westchester County who took horse-riding lessons and drove a Mercedes Benz, pleaded innocent to charges she operated a pot-growing operation in Queens worth millions.
Luis Barcenas, the former treasurer of Spain’s governing Popular Party who has been at the heart of a widening corruption investigation, was being held after a judge decided that he presented a flight risk.
Sarah Murnaghan, a 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl who underwent a double-lung transplant amid a national debate over the organ allocation process, has undergone a second transplant after the first failed and is taking some breaths on her own, the girl’s parents said.
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