David Letterman, who turns 67 next week, said during a taping of the Late Show that he has informed CBS that he will step down in 2015, when his contract expires, ending a late-night career that began when he created Late Night at NBC in 1982.
Rob Ford, who is seeking re-election as Toronto mayor this year despite a record of erratic behavior and acknowledging that he had smoked crack, was allowed to change his vote in the City Council on congratulating Canada’s Olympic and Paralympic athletes and naming part of a Toronto street after Nelson Mandela, a day after he said he mistakenly voted against both motions.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 87, a Nobel laureate and by many accounts the Spanish language’s most popular writer since Miguel de Cervantes, was hospitalized in Mexico City with lung and urinary tract infections that are responding to treatment, his son said.
Queen Elizabeth II paid a visit to Pope Francis at the Vatican, bearing a basket of honey, whiskey and other goodies from the royal estates, and received in return from the pontiff a stone orb topped with a sharp cross for “el ninetto” Prince George, Elizabeth’s great-grandson.
Alberto Gonzales, who resigned as attorney general in 2007 after a controversy over the politically motivated firings of nine U.S. attorneys and amid an uproar over allegations of torture of terrorism suspects, was named dean of Belmont University’s College of Law in Nashville, Tenn.
Sergei Ryabkov, a senior Russian diplomat, told the Interfax news agency that U.S. officials should do yoga and watch TV comedy shows to ease what he calls their irrational fixation on punishing Russia over Ukraine.
Arthur Morgan III, 29, who tossed his 2-year old daughter Tierra Morgan-Glover into a creek while she was still strapped into her car seat to get back at her mother for breaking off their engagement, was convicted in New Jersey of the child’s murder.
Rose Argo, the warden of the Anna M. Kross Center on Rikers Island in New York, was demoted and transferred after mentally ill veteran Jerome Murdough “baked to death” in an overheated cell in February.
Jay Carney, the presidential spokesman, said the White House is not amused that Samsung is promoting a selfie with President Barack Obama taken by Boston Red Sox player David Ortiz on a Samsung phone.
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