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President Barack Obama and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi will be in Dallas for a summer barbecue fundraiser benefiting House Democrats on July 9, with tickets starting at $10,000 per person and going up to $32,400 for a couple.

Lech Walesa, the former Polish president who led his country's peaceful transition to democracy in the 1980s, said he plans to urge President Barack Obama to take a more active world leadership role when he visits Poland in June, telling The Associated Press that "the world is disorganized and the superpower is not taking the lead."

Deano Miller, a former Marine corporal now living in Tacoma, Wash., was reunited with Thor, the yellow Lab he says meant everything to him when he served in Afghanistan, in an adoption aided by two groups that work to bring military war dogs back to the U.S.

Jeralean Talley, a Detroit-area woman, celebrated her 115th birthday Friday and told the Detroit Free Press that the key to long life is "all in the good Lord's hands. There's nothing I can do about it."

Daniel McCawley, owner of the Atomic Grill in Morgantown, W.Va., said he became offended after a customer anonymously suggested online that his servers needed to "show more skin" and is donating all proceeds from the sale of loaded potato skins this holiday weekend to a rape-crisis network.

Christopher Evans Hubbart, 63, a serial rapist who committed at least 40 assaults, is set to be released in July to live in Los Angeles County after a judge's order and will face severe restrictions that include 24-hour GPS monitoring.

Jason Omar Griffith, a former Las Vegas Strip performer, was found guilty of second-degree murder for killing and dismembering Deborah Flores Narvaez, his dancer ex-girlfriend, in 2010 and faces sentencing July 23.

Sosefina Amoa, a Samoan woman who acknowledged killing her newborn son at a Washington convent where she was studying to become a nun, has been sentenced to four years in prison.

Kefelgn Alemu Worku, an Ethiopian jail guard accused of torturing and killing dozens of people during government-sponsored violence in the 1970s, was sentenced in Denver to 22 years in prison for assuming another man's identity and lying on U.S. immigration forms by denying that he committed acts of political persecution.

A Section on 05/24/2014

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