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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told The Associated Press in Fort Worth that he and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, will be "friendly competitors" if both run for president in 2016.

Tom Steyer, an environmentalist billionaire who has pledged to spend tens of millions of dollars targeting Republicans who reject climate change, announced that he is creating a fund to help victims of extreme weather disasters, starting with wildfires in the West.

Luke Bigham, 20, an Alabama man who played the younger version of Will Ferrell's character in the 2006 movie Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, is free on bond after being arrested on a reckless driving charge after a five-car crash in his hometown of Trussville.

Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the chief of the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group, hailed President Bashar Assad's victory in Syria's presidential election, saying the "massive" turnout shows the war and the West's conspiracy against Syria have failed.

Ray Tomlinson, 62, of Clinton Township, Mich., who continued driving to Michigan from Arizona even after his girlfriend, 31-year-old Christine Gilbert, died during the trip, won't face charges after he failed to immediately tell authorities, police said.

William Steele, a federal judge, ended the on-again, off-again lawsuit filed by To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee against a museum in Monroeville, Ala., after the parties filed a joint motion seeking to end the suit, in which Lee had accused the museum of taking advantage of her work by selling souvenirs and using her book's title as its website address.

Raymond Walker, 33, who is accused of starting a melee that involved as many as 20 people at a southwest Ohio kindergarten graduation, was chastised by a judge who set bail at $50,000 and said Walker showed poor judgment.

Rear Adm. Walter Carter, a former "Top Gun" pilot who recently led the Naval War College, which teaches the military branch's leaders, has been chosen by President Barack Obama to head the U.S. Naval Academy, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said.

Sister Cristina Scuccia, 25, a nun who became an Internet star for her unadorned pop song performances in full habit, triumphed at Italy's version of the musical competition The Voice, singing and dancing to "Flashdance ... What a Feeling" from the 1983 movie Flashdance.

A Section on 06/07/2014

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