Pope Francis criticized abortion as evidence of a “throwaway culture” that wastes people as well as food, saying in his global survey of world crises, delivered to diplomats accredited to the Holy See, that such a mentality is a threat to world peace.
Dennis Rodman, the ex-NBA star, apologized in Beijing for not being able to help an American missionary detained in North Korea while Rodman played there to celebrate the birthday of his friend, the leader Kim Jong Un.
Armond White, the film critic for CityArts in New York City, was expelled from the New York Film Critics Circle after purportedly heckling 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen at the group’s annual awards banquet.
Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., a trusted confidant of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, announced he will retire at the end of his term, after 40 years in Congress.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 27, the Nigerian who pleaded guilty to trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner with a bomb in his underwear on Christmas in 2009, saw an appeals court uphold his conviction and life sentence.
Jodi Arias, 33, convicted in the 2008 killing of boyfriend Travis Alexander, will face a March 17 court date to decide whether she should be sentenced to life in prison or the death penalty.
Vilma Bautista, a former aide to ex-Philippines first lady Imelda Marcos, was sentenced in New York to two to six years in prison after being convicted of scheming to sell a $32 million Claude Monet painting.
Allan Fung, the Republican mayor of Cranston, R.I., and a candidate for governor, disclosed that he was responsible for a crash that killed a man 25 years ago when Fung lost consciousness and hit a man who was changing a tire, and said a grand jury declined to indict him.
Nadya Suleman, 38, who gained fame as “Octomom” after giving birth to octuplets, was charged with welfare fraud after failing to report $30,000 in earnings while she collected public assistance, authorities in Los Angeles said.
Robert Rizzo, who became the face of a municipal scandal after it was revealed in 2010 that he was getting salary and benefits of $1.5 million while running the modest Los Angeles suburb of Bell, pleaded guilty to charges that he filed a false federal income tax return to reduce his tax liability.
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