Anthony Weiner, 48, the Democratic former representative whose political career collapsed after lewd online relationships with women forced him to resign from Congress, entered New York’s mayoral race with promises to make the city “the middle-class capital of the world.”
Eric Garcetti, a Los Angeles city councilman, won his bid to become mayor with 54 percent of the vote, bringing to a close a nearly two-year race that pitted him against the city controller, Wendy Greuel, another moderate Democrat with years of experience at City Hall who received 46 percent.
Maria Alekhina, a member of a Russian punk band imprisoned for an impromptu protest in Moscow’s main cathedral last year, said she is going on a hunger strike after a judge refused to allow her to attend a court hearing where she was seeking release on parole.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has an agreement with Henry Holt and Co. for a book to be released in the spring of 2014 that the publisher says will mostly be a “rousing call” for the middle class.
Thomas Pickering, the retired diplomat who co-led a review of the 2012 terrorist attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, ended his refusal to submit to a private interview with a Republican-led House committee that is investigating the assault.
Sathwik Karnik, 15, won the 25th annual National Geographic Bee in Washington by correctly naming Chimborazo as the mountain in Ecuador that represents the farthest point from the Earth’s center.
Charlie Hales, the mayor of Portland, Ore., conceded defeat in an effort he backed to add fluoride to the city’s drinking water, with the proposal failing among voters 60 percent to 40 percent.
Steve Smith, a Republican state lawmaker in Arizona, said the prayer offered at the beginning of the previous day’s floor session by Democratic Rep. Juan Mendez, who is an atheist, didn’t pass muster and asked members to join him in a second daily prayer in “repentance,” with about half the 60-member body doing so.
Frank Marullo, a New Orleans judge first elected in 1974 and the longest-serving judge on Orleans Parish Criminal District Court, was not injured during a carjacking outside his home in the city’s Carrollton neighborhood, according to police, who said they arrested three teenagers suspected of driving off in the judge’s Mercedes-Benz and crashing it.
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