Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said he is filing suit against President Barack Obama’s administration over the data-collection policies of the National Security Agency, and he believes everyone in the U.S. with a cellphone would be eligible to join the suit as a class action.
Pope Francis drew more than 6.6 million people to his audiences, Masses and other Vatican events in 2013, more than twice as many as his predecessor Benedict XVI did in his first year as pope, the Vatican said.
Jerome Davis of Iowa was arrested on accusations that he pulled a knife on his brother during an argument about laziness and overeating, which began when the victim became angry because Davis was eating too many peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches, police said.
Mohammed Ibrahim, Egypt’s minister of antiquities, said Japanese archaeologists unearthed a tomb in the city of Luxor that is more than 3,000 years old and belongs to an ancient beer brewer whom Ibrahim described as the chief “maker of beer for gods of the dead.”
Randi Caporale, operations manager for Candy Crate Inc., said “not even a Blow Pop” was taken by two would-be thieves, who were seen running away after an alarm sounded when they broke a window at the company’s warehouse in Hesperia, Calif., which holds retro sweets like candy cigarettes and Astro Pops.
Xu Shuaijun, a 35-year old Chinese cook, was rescued by Japan’s coast guard after he crashed into the sea while trying to fly on a hot-air balloon to islands claimed by both China and Japan.
Michael Davis, the father of 17-year-old Claire Davis, who was fatally shot at her suburban Denver high school in December, said he and his wife have forgiven the killer, Karl Pierson, who also killed himself, and asked others to do the same.
Asfaw B erhanu, a former contributor to the Ethiopian newspaper The Reporter, was convicted on a charge of spreading false rumors, which stemmed from a news story he wrote saying three government officials had been removed from their posts.
Mayor Jamie Mayo of Monroe, La., filed a motion to hold four members of the City Council in contempt of court, accusing them of violating a restraining order that said they couldn’t act on a resolution that would restrict his power to remove members from an economic board.
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