In the news

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Joe Biden, the vice president, said on ABC’s The View that his decision on whether to seek the presidency in 2016 will not hinge on whether Hillary Rodham Clinton enters the race.

Timothy Lambesis, 32, the frontman of the Grammy-nominated metal band As I Lay Dying, pleaded guilty in Vista Superior Court, near San Diego, to trying to hire someone to kill his estranged wife and remains free on bond until his sentencing May 2.

George W. Bush, the former president who has indulged in an amateur art career in the years since leaving the White House, will have his first art exhibition, titled “The Art of Leadership: A President’s Personal Diplomacy,” which is to run at his presidential library and museum in Dallas starting in early April.

Steve French, a former Alabama state senator who is seeking a state House seat in the Republican primary June 3, reasoned that “it’s hard to get people interested in a June race in February, but everybody is always interested in hunting,” as he launched a drawing on his campaign website for a Remington 870 shotgun.

Alexander Eremeev, 45, and Dmitry Zaytsev, 37, both Russians, married in Argentina and said they would seek asylum from the violence they fear back home in the Olympic city of Sochi, joining a growing number of other gays seeking marriage and refuge abroad.

President Barack Obama announced at the White House the creation of two Pentagon-led institutes to boost advanced high-tech manufacturing, one in Chicago and the other in Canton, Mich., outside Detroit, with the eventual goal of creating jobs that have been lost to global competition.

Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the drug kingpin sought by the U.S. and captured last weekend, must stand trial on drug-trafficking charges and remain for the immediate future in Mexico, a Mexican federal judge ruled.

George Doodnaught, a Canadian anesthesiologist, was sentenced in Ontario Superior Court to 10 years in prison after being convicted of sexually assaulting 21 sedated women during surgeries.

Nathan Harper, 61, Pittsburgh’s former police chief, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for conspiring to create an unauthorized slush fund, with a federal judge saying she was sending a message that the seriousness of his crimes outweighed his supporters’ calls for leniency.

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