U.S. Rep. John Carter and Rep. Sam Johnson, both Texas Republicans, said they will leave a bipartisan House group that’s been working in secret to write a comprehensive immigration bill, because they don’t trust President Barack Obama to enforce any legislation they write.
Andres Rodriguez, a veterinarian in Cuba, runs state-owned dairy No. 128 in Picadura, where he helped a 3-year-old cow named Aleli give birth to four healthy calves, an occurrence that experts said happens 1 in 11 million times.
Robert Zelnick, 73, a Boston University journalism professor and former ABC News correspondent, was sentenced to three years of probation in the death of motorcyclist Brendan Kennedy, 26, who hit Zelnick’s sport utility vehicle after Zelnick turned into his path.
David Guth, a University of Kansas journalism professor, was placed on indefinite administrative leave over a Twitter message about the Navy Yard shootings which said that “blood is on the hands of the #NRA. Next time, let it be YOUR sons and daughters.”
King Juan Carlos of Spain, 75, is to undergo a third operation in less than two years after suffering what doctors said appears to be an infection in his right hip, which he broke on an elephant-hunting safari last year.
Miranda Mendenhall of Athens, Ga., was responsible for reuniting Zip the giant tortoise with its owner after she spotted the escaped 50-pound pet on the side of the road and decided to call 911 because, she said, “you don’t usually see a turtle that big.”
Pope Francis denounced abortions as a symptom of today’s “throwaway culture” and encouraged Catholic doctors to refuse to perform them, a day after he said in an interview that the church’s obsession with “small-minded rules” about issues such as abortion, gay marriage and contraception are driving the faithful away.
Darrell Mathis, a sheriff ’s deputy in Newton County, Ga., faces federal drug and firearms charges on accusations that he sold marijuana from his squad car to an undercover law-enforcement agent.
President Dalia Grybauskaite of Lithuania said the European Union will not sign a key cooperation deal with Ukraine until former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is released from jail, but Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, Tymoshenko’s longtime foe, refused to commit to freeing her.
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