Jimmy Carter, the former president, told The Associated Press that U.S. intelligence monitoring has run out of control since the 9/11 terror attacks and he now handwrites and mails sensitive letters to foreign and American leaders because he can’t trust his email or telephone to be secure.
Katie Francis, a sixth-grader from Oklahoma City, has broken the Girl Scouts’ decades-old cookie sales record, selling 18,107 boxes in the seven-week sales period that ended Sunday night and besting Elizabeth Brinton’s benchmark of about 18,000 sold one year in the 1980s.
Joe Brown, 66, the star of the television show Judge Joe Brown and currently running to be the top prosecutor in Shelby County, Tenn., was charged with five counts of contempt of court and sentenced to five days in jail, accused of causing an outburst in a courtroom hearing.
Mike Pence, the Republican governor of Indiana, signed legislation withdrawing his state from the Common Core math and reading standards that outline what students should be learning but which some have criticized as a top-down takeover of local schools.
Joseph Savage, 34, a convicted child molester charged with sending a threatening letter to President Barack Obama, albeit to the wrong address of 1400 Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, pleaded innocent at his arraignment in Pittsburgh.
Joey Kadmiri, 24, who is accused of firing a gun as he tried to make off with costumes and props used by Thunder From Down Under male performers in Las Vegas, appeared in court sporting visible injuries on his face from when he was subdued by several performers.
Cory Gardner, a Republican congressman challenging Democratic Sen. Mark Udall in Colorado, said he will no longer support measures that grant a fertilized egg the same legal protections as a person.
President Jose Mujica of Uruguay said that any Guantanamo detainees his country takes will be treated as refugees and will be free to travel wherever they wish, even if they have promised the U.S. that they’ll stay in the South American country for at least two years.
Eric Holder, the attorney general, announced that halfway houses serving federal criminals preparing for release from custody must provide standardized treatment for inmates with mental-health and substance problems and permit cellphone use.
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