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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio meets with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 24, 2014. Boehner said he's "all in" to remain as House speaker in the new Congress that will meet next year. For months, some have questioned whether the Ohio Republican would remain in the House's No. 1 job after this Congress ends in January 2015. Boehner has been speaker since 2011. For much of that time, he's managed a fractious Republican majority that includes conservatives who at times have rebelled against his leadership.
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio meets with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 24, 2014. Boehner said he's "all in" to remain as House speaker in the new Congress that will meet next year. For months, some have questioned whether the Ohio Republican would remain in the House's No. 1 job after this Congress ends in January 2015. Boehner has been speaker since 2011. For much of that time, he's managed a fractious Republican majority that includes conservatives who at times have rebelled against his leadership.

House Speaker John Boehner told a reporter in Washington that he's "all in" to remain as speaker in the new Congress that will meet next year.

Joan Lunden, 63, who co-anchored Good Morning America on ABC from 1980 through 1997, disclosed on her former show that she has breast cancer but expects to make a full recovery.

Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, will visit New Hampshire next week to endorse the U.S. Senate bid of Scott Brown, who won a 2010 special U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts but was beaten in 2012.

Frank Lee, a Drexel University professor, earned the Guinness World Record for largest architectural video game display for a computer program created with two colleagues that allows the puzzle game Tetris to be played on two sides of a 29-story skyscraper in Philadelphia.

Lessya Kotelevskaya, 30, a Ukrainian native, was recovering after a 16-hour surgery at University of Louisville Hospital to repair disfiguring injuries to her face from radiation treatments for a cancer she never had that caused a gaping hole in her cheek.

Erik Blake Halpin, 34, a man described by central Oregon authorities as a transient, was charged with drunken driving and unauthorized use of a vehicle, accused of stealing a 1930 Ford Model A coupe and crashing it into the Crooked River.

Brandon Machetto, 18, who authorities in Pasco County, Fla., say killed his grandmother, 74-year-old Sylvia Schmitt, inside her home at a nudist community and then drove around with her body in a minivan for nearly five hours, was charged with first-degree murder.

m Samuel Onyenweaku, 22, a former aide at a Cincinnati nursing home, was convicted of raping a 92-year-old resident who was confined to her bed and unable to communicate and who died in February from an unrelated condition.

Merry Clayton, 65, a backup singer who has recorded with Ray Charles and the Rolling Stones and was featured in the documentary 20 Feet From Stardom, was recovering after being seriously injured in an auto accident, her manager said.

Jill Biden, the wife of Vice President Joe Biden, will make a week-long, three-country trip to Africa to promote girls' education and women's participation in government, the economy and civil society.

A Section on 06/25/2014

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