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George H.W. Bush, the former president, was honored with a 2014 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award at the JFK Presidential Library and Museum in Boston for agreeing to raise taxes to confront a spiraling deficit, jeopardizing his presidency that ended after just one term.

Amy Meyer, an animal-welfare activist in Salt Lake City, was denied her request to install a roadside memorial at the site where 720 turkeys died April 24 in a Utah truck crash by the state’s Department of Transportation, which said the memorial didn’t meet the agency’s policy standards.

Rep. Steven Horsford, a Nevada congressman, called on officials at the Clark County Democratic Convention in Las Vegas to rid a town in his district of militia members who have rallied around rancher Cliven Bundy in his battle with federal land managers.

Gholamhossein Kazemi, the head of an environment department in Iran, said in a report by the state’s official news agency that authorities detained two Spaniards for illegal hunting after they were found with a live, captured alligator.

Harry Perry, a right-wing United Kingdom Independence Party candidate, was suspended by his political party after purportedly posting anti-gay and anti-Muslim messages on Twitter, ending Perry’s plans to run for office in this month’s European Parliament elections.

Joe Biden, the vice president, at a college graduation ceremony in South Florida, extolled immigration as crucial to American innovation and said a “constant, substantial stream of immigrants” is important to the American economy.

Megan Huntsman, 39, a Utah mother accused of stashing her seven dead babies in a garage, had lost track of how many bodies she left there, and told police upon her arrest that she had hidden at least eight or nine bodies, according to newly released court documents.

Andrew Tahmooressi, 25, a Marine veteran jailed in Mexico on weapons charges accusing him of taking three guns across the border, said he never intended to leave the U.S. but missed an exit when heading to meet friends in a border town and had no way to turn around.

Gene Robinson, the first openly gay Episcopal bishop, who became a symbol for gay rights while dividing the world’s Anglicans, plans to divorce husband Mark Andrew, according to an email sent to the Diocese of New Hampshire, where he served for nine years before retiring in 2012.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 05/05/2014

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