Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the Senate Republican leader, faulted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., on the Senate floor over Reid’s speeches condemning billionaire Republican contributors Charles and David Koch while not mentioning former hedge fund manager Tom Steyer, who plans to spend millions geared toward defeating candidates skeptical of global warming.

Nathan Entingh, 10, a fifth-grader at Devonshire Alternative Elementary School in Columbus, Ohio, who was suspended from school for three days for pretending that his finger was a gun and pointing it at another student’s head, said he was “just playing around.”

Edgar Martirosyan, the pizza deliveryman who fed celebrities slices during Sunday’s Oscar telecast, received a $1,000 cash tip handed over by ceremony host Ellen DeGeneres during a visit to DeGeneres’ daytime television talk show.

Rob Ford, the Toronto mayor who has acknowledged having smoked crack cocaine while in a drunken stupor and who resisted pressure to leave office, laughed off Jimmy Kimmel’s suggestion that he get help for his drinking problem and said on Kimmel’s late-night talk show that he “wasn’t elected to be perfect.”

Patrick Rock, 62, a senior aide to British Prime Minister David Cameron who was involved in drawing up plans for anti-pornography filters for home Internet users, resigned shortly before his arrest last month over accusations of possessing “child abuse imagery,” government officials confirmed.

Medea Benjamin, a co-founder of the U.S. protest group Code Pink, which opposes U.S. military actions, said she was detained in the Cairo airport and assaulted by Egyptian police while trying to travel to Gaza for a meeting opposing the Israeli occupation there.

Bill Kramer, a Republican, was ousted as majority leader of the Wisconsin state Assembly amid allegations that he groped one woman and verbally abused another during a trip to Washington.

Lu Ann Ballew, a former Tennessee magistrate who changed a baby’s first name from Messiah to Martin, saying that Messiah was a title reserved only for Jesus Christ, was censured over her August decision.

Oscar Smith, 48, a retired officer who is black and spent seven years in the New York Police Department’s elite scuba-diving unit, filed a discrimination complaint, saying he was subjected to racial taunts and prejudice.

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