Sen. John McCain, who hasn’t decided whether he’ll run for a sixth term, said the Arizona Republican Party’s censure of him over the weekend, on the basis of a voting record perceived as being insufficiently conservative, may have provided the motivation to run again.
Ban Ki-moon, the U.N. secretary-general, met with former Cuban leader Fidel Castro on the sidelines of a regional summit in Havana for a conversation that ranged from climate change to Syria, Ban’s office said.
Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic governor of Virginia, rejected a call by dozens of Republican delegates to appoint a special prosecutor to defend the state’s constitutional ban on gay marriage after Attorney General Mark Herring’s decision not to join the fight, saying the prohibition willstill get a vigorous defense.
William Ortiz, a trooper with the Pennsylvania State Police, reported “absolutely zero snakes” inside the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem in eastern Pennsylvania as the Sands tried to dispel an online rumor circulating on Facebook that patrons were being bitten by snakes.
Savana Jimenez, 22, was arrested and charged with obstruction by Roswell, N.M., police who say she called in a fake report of a gunman near a convenience store to help a friend avoid a traffic ticket over a taillight.
Aleksandr Andreevich Panin, a 24-year-old Russian man who’s also known as “Gribodemon” and “Harderman,” pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge in Atlanta after federal authorities say he created SpyEye, a computer program that has been used to drain bank accounts.
Margaret Hodge, chairman of a panel of U.K. lawmakers examining the finances of Britain’s royal household, urged the royals “to do more with less,” suggesting opening up Buckingham Palace to visitors more often and asking royals to consider staff cuts and replace an aging palace boiler.
Claudio Scajola, an ex-minister in a former Italian government of Silvio Berlusconi, prevailed in a Rome court that ruled he committed no crime in buying a luxury apartment with a view of the Colosseum.
Allen Peake, a Georgia state lawmaker and member of the Republican House leadership, introduced a bill that would revive a long-dormant research program allowing academic institutions to distribute medical marijuana to those with specific medical conditions.
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