Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s former military ruler, pleaded innocent to treason charges after being formally indicted by a special court, according to lawyers in the case.
Rep. Dave Camp , R-Mich., the 60-year-old chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, who has pursued the biggest changes to the U.S. tax code since 1986, won’t seek re-election this year, he said in a statement, and will conclude a House career that began in 1990.
Yoweri Museveni, the Ugandan president who signed a bill in February strengthening criminal penalties against homosexuals, said at an event in the capital, Kampala, that he is “now mobilizing to fight” Western gays, whom he accuses of promoting homosexuality in Africa.
Peter Greste, an Australian journalist with Al-Jazeera, and two of his network colleagues, Canadian-Egyptian Mohammed Fahmy and Egyptian Baher Mohammed, who are on trial in Egypt on terrorism charges, were denied bail.
President Barack Obama threw his support to U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz over U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa in Hawaii’s Senate race, stepping into a primary that has been divisive for voters in the state where the president was born.
Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, 23, an Idaho man who pleaded guilty to firing an assault rifle at the White House in 2011, striking the executive mansion more than half a dozen times, was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Matthew Serrano, 38, and 23-year-old Vista Scott, both of New Mexico, were charged in Missouri with drug trafficking and attempted trafficking after authorities reportedly found more than 200 pounds of marijuana in their vehicle during a traffic stop.
Daniel Whitworth, 58, a southwest Missouri lawyer, pleaded guilty to wire fraud, money laundering and making false statements on tax returns and faces up to 33 years in federal prison after admitting he stole more than $586,000 from clients of his Joplin legal practice.
Michelle Byrom, 57, a death-row inmate who prosecutors say recruited her son in a plot to kill her husband in 1999, will get a new trial, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled in an order that is rare for a prisoner awaiting execution and did not elaborate on how the court reached its decision.
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