Rob Ford, the mayor of Toronto, after being seen in a second video apparently smoking crack cocaine, began a leave of absence and boarded a plane for Chicago, headed for a treatment facility where he’s expected to stay at least 30 days.
Jay Nixon, the Democratic governor of Missouri, vetoed an income-tax cut for millions of Missouri residents and business owners, saying that the priority measure of the Republican-led Legislature could devastate funding for public schools and services.
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that New York City and its largest teachers union struck a deal on a new nineyear contract under which teachers will receive back pay equivalent to nearly 8 percent of their salaries and a series of additional small raises through 2018.
Sean McComb, an English teacher from Patapsco High School and Center for the Arts near Baltimore, where he works with students in a college-readiness program, was honored at the White House as the National Teacher of the Year.
John Kerry, the secretary of state, told reporters in Africa that the United States was blindsided by a Palestinian deal with the militant group Hamas that led to the suspension of Mideast peace talks but voiced hope that negotiations would resume after a pause.
Rick Mastracchio, an astronaut and a University of Connecticut alumnus, will record a graduation address to the school of engineering for the May 10 commencement while orbiting the globe on the International Space Station.
Brian Genest, 17, of Auburn, Maine, was flustered but unhurt after his selfie photo with a squirrel at a park near Tampa, Fla., ended up startling the animal, which climbed under his shirt and clung to his back before scampering out and away.
Staff Sgt. Adam Thorogood, a Kentucky National Guardsman with aspirations of joining an Army special-operations unit, filed suit in federal court seeking to overturn new regulations banning tattoos below the knee or elbow.
Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., who initially described rancher Cliven Bundy and his makeshift militia as “patriots” but later denounced him after Bundy said blacks might have been better off in slavery, said in Washington that Bundy should pay the Bureau of Land Management more than $1 million in grazing fees that the agency says he owes.
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