LITTLE ROCK — Rick Santorum, the former GOP presidential candidate, and South Carolina’s Sen. Jim DeMint have joined Newt Gingrich in endorsing Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri, who was called on by many in the party, including presidential nominee Mitt Romney, to end his Senate campaign after he said women’s bodies have a natural defense against pregnancy in cases of “legitimate rape.”
Maj. Nidal Hasan, 42, the Army psychiatrist charged in a deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage, has been returned to jail after being hospitalized for an undisclosed condition.
Mona Eltahawy, 45, an Egyptian-born columnist who lives in New York, has been arrested over allegations she spray-painted at a city subway station an advertisement that reads, “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.”
Shinzo Abe, who was Japan’s prime minister for a year before abruptly resigning in 2007 with an intestinal ailment, won an election to lead the Liberal Democratic Party, the country’s main opposition party.
Brian Edwards, 32, and Tom Privitere, 37, have filed suit in Denver federal court against Virginia-based Public Advocate of the United States, which the couple says used their engagement photo, which shows the two holding hands and kissing, without permission and put it on mailers against a Colorado Republican state lawmaker who supported a failed civil-union bill.
Joy Hill, a spokesman with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, said Carol Hough is in critical condition after an alligator attacked her and ripped off the 84-year-old woman’s arm.
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