President Cristina Fernandez of Argentina rallied a huge crowd celebrating the 10-year government that she and her late husband, Nestor Kirchner, began in 2003, calling it a victorious decade “won not by a government but by the people.”
David Gonzales, a Minnesota man who found an Action Comics No. 1 from 1938 mixed in with old newspapers insulating a house he was renovating, said it doesn’t bother him that he shaved up to $75,000 off the potential price when he accidentally tore the back cover of the book, which features Superman’s debut.
Michelle Obama, the first lady, spoke to students at Savoy Elementary School in one of Washington, D.C.’s poorest neighborhoods and encouraged them to “try new things and not be afraid to fail, because we have all failed.”
Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia, winner of the men’s race at the Boston Marathon, announced during a ceremony with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry that he is returning his winner’s medal to honor the city and those killed and injured in the bombings near the finish line.
Gen. David Sejusa, a wanted Ugandan general who questioned President Yoweri Museveni’s secession plan, is hiding in London from Ugandan undercover agents purportedly sent to track him down and has requested the protection of British police, according to his lawyer.
Monty Turner of Colorado was arrested at a motel in Canada after police say he broke into his estranged wife’s home before blasting her with a stun gun and pepper spray and kidnapping their 3-year-old son, who was found safe.
Sally Bercow, the wife of Britain’s parliamentary speaker, said she has settled a libel case brought by Alistair McAlpine, a politician wrongly linked to child sex abuse, after the High Court decided that her 2012 Tweet naming him to her then-56,000 Twitter followers was defamatory.
Denise Casper, a federal judge in the trial of James “Whitey” Bulger, denied a request by the reputed gangster’s lawyers to order prosecutors to name a confidential informant.
Zhao Han Cong, 23, of Canada, who is accused of stalking the brother of Jennifer Lawrence and repeatedly asking to be put in touch with the Oscar-winning actress, was charged in Louisville, Ky., with interstate stalking and repeated harassing phone communications and was ordered to remain held until he could undergo a psychiatric examination.
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