Jarvis Britton, a 26-year old Alabama man, was sentenced to a year in federal prison for threatening President Barack Obama’s life by posting on Twitter, “Let’s kill the president. F.E.A.R.,” referring to what prosecutors said is a militia group called Forever Enduring Always Ready.
Yaakov Peri, a senior Israeli Cabinet minister, endorsed an Arab peace initiative that has received little support from other Israeli officials, saying it is a good basis for negotiations with the Palestinians and that “the establishment of a Palestinian state is a clear interest of the state of Israel.”
Sharon Harvey of the Cleveland Animal Protective League needed someone to care for an orphaned week-old pit bull, so she enlisted the help of Lurlene, a cat caring for four newborn kittens, who welcomed Noland the puppy to her “unusual little family,” Harvey said.
Michael Froman, a senior White House economic adviser and classmate of President Barack Obama at Harvard Law School, won Senate confirmation to be the next U.S. trade representative in a 93-4 vote.
Tina Marie Garrison, a 37-year-old Minnesota mother, and her 18-year-old son are accused of stealing several bags of frozen gopher feet from a trapper and selling them for nearly $5,000 to local townships that offer rewards to limit the gopher population.
President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela has asked Pope Francis to canonize Jose Gregorio Hernandez, a doctor who lived from 1864-1919 and tended to the poor in Caracas, telling the pontiff that Hernandez is already “a saint of the people.”
Colleen Shannon, 35, a former Playboy centerfold who works as a disc jockey in Los Angeles, pleaded guilty to a federal felony charge in New York for helping her Canadian boyfriend after he entered the United States, despite knowing that his criminal record would bar his U.S. entry.
Andrew Palismwe, a 2-month-old Namibian boy born with four legs, is recovering after undergoing a nine-hour surgery to remove two of the limbs at a South African hospital.
William Lamar, a 63-year-old eco-tourism guide from east Texas, pleaded guilty to a charge of importing wildlife taken in violation of foreign law after he bought seven live snakes in Lima, Peru, and then smuggled them in his jacket on flights from Lima to Miami and then to Dallas.
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