Michelle Obama, who as first lady has led efforts to fight childhood obesity, told a group of children during a question-and-answer session that “splurging is the key to life” if people regularly eat right and stay active, adding, “How would you appreciate vegetables if you never had chocolate?”
Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe’s former prime minister, was suspended by the Movement for Democratic Change because he lacks “the legitimacy, credibility, ability, decency or honesty” necessary for “leading and executing the democratic struggle in Zimbabwe,” the opposition party announced.
Christina George-Harvan, 30, of Conway, Pa., was arrested after being accused of fatally shooting her 21-year-old niece with her new husband’s handgun during an argument over who would be the designated driver after their wedding party.
Adel Faqih, Saudi Arabia’s health minister, said his country is reserving medical centers in several cities for the exclusive treatment of Middle East respiratory syndrome, which has killed 92 people since September 2012.
Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, who is weighing a 2016 presidential run, told fellow Republicans at the Maine party convention that the GOP must evolve and attract more members of minority groups, women and young people to its ranks in order to recapture the White House in 2016 and beyond.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former secretary of state, spoke about her Methodist faith at the annual United Methodist Women Assembly in a speech that coincided with the launch of Faith Voters for Hillary, an independent website established to woo voters for Clinton should she run for president in 2016.
Tyt’ana Lisa-Nicole Johnson
of Fayetteville, N.C., was charged as an adult with two counts of attempted first-degree murder after the 17-year-old was accused of trying to kill her grandmother by dumping insecticide into a pot of collard greens.
Sakhontee Phattiyagul, a leader of the People’s Democratic Reform Committee, which has been staging anti-government demonstrations in Thailand’s capital since November, was arrested and charged with offenses including insurrection.
Lori Sullenberger, 38, faces felony and misdemeanor drug charges after being accused of selling heroin from her room at Excela Westmoreland Hospital in Greensburg, Pa.
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