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Edward Snowden, who leaked documents disclosing details of U.S. spies’ surveillance of the Internet and telephone communications and has received temporary asylum in Russia, was elected the official representative of the student body at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom.

Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian mass killer serving a 21-year sentence for killing 77 people in a bombing and shooting rampage in July 2011, threatened in a letter sent to media members to go on a hunger strike unless he gets access to better video games, a sofa and a larger gym.

Joe Biden, the vice president, will appear on ABC’s The View on Tuesday to encourage people to sign up under the government’s new health-insurance program, his office said.

Rep. Rush Holt, 65, a New Jersey Democrat and physicist who won his House seat in 1998, announced he will not seek re-election in November and will retire from Congress when his term ends next year.

Gail Finney, a Democratic Kansas state lawmaker, is proposing a bill that would allow teachers, caregivers and parents to spank children hard enough to leave marks, saying she wants to restore parental rights and improve discipline.

Kayla Michelle Finley, 27, of Pickens, S.C., was arrested and spent a night in jail, accused of failing to return a rented videocassette of the Jennifer Lopez movie Monster-in-Law to Dalton Videos nearly a decade ago.

Adrian Jimmerson, 18, was held on a charge of burglary of a habitation, accused of burglarizing a Dallas police officer’s apartment, taking a service weapon and ammunition but losing his wallet and school identification card as he fled the scene.

Pedro Rivera, 29, a Hartford, Conn., journalist, filed a lawsuit alleging that police officers violated his free speech rights by questioning his use of a remote-controlled aircraft to record images of a car wreck.

Julie Corey, 39, of Worcester, Mass., was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of killing her pregnant friend Darlene Haynes and cutting the baby from her womb in July 2009.

Rep. Darrell Issa, the California Republican spearheading congressional investigations of President Barack Obama’s administration, urged his party to unite against Obama’s “imperial presidency” as he toured New Hampshire, and said he is not running for president.

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