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Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said a comment he made defending the effort to scale back federal estate taxes because it helps people who invest rather than those who spend their money on “booze or women or movies” has been misinterpreted, adding that “the government shouldn’t seize the fruits of someone’s lifetime of labor after they die.”
Randy Bresnik, commander of the International Space Station, called them “flying saucers of the edible kind” when he and five other astronauts held the first-ever pizza party in space, making individual-size pies, which were tossed and twirled before being heated and devoured.
Carinna Driscoll, stepdaughter of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and a former City Council member and ex-state legislator, is running as an independent for mayor of Burlington.
Jeremy Kemp, who has been living in his cargo van in Charlottesville, Va., since graduating from the University of Virginia in May to save money on rent, has been accepted into the university’s law school.
Ana Perez, 60, was cited for careless driving after telling Florida Highway Patrol troopers that she fell asleep while driving near Orlando and veered off the road, striking a mailbox before crashing into a home’s garage.
Scott Lamaster, 58, of Kansas City, Mo., founder of a group that works with those in need, was badly burned when a propane tank on his trailer grill exploded as he cooked meals to be delivered to homeless people, his daughter said.
Salina Hurtado of Oceanside, Calif., spotted Catalina, her missing 9-month-old white pit bull terrier, on a television newscast about deputies shooting at a man who tried to run them over in a stolen van, wounding the dog, which had been taken to a shelter for treatment.
William Eng, a police officer in Savannah, Ga., was recorded by his body camera racing up three sets of stairs to an apartment and then using chest compressions to save the life of a 29-day-old baby who had stopped breathing.
Vermin Supreme, a perennial candidate in New Hampshire’s presidential primary, is being allowed to take two ponies to a Hillary Clinton book signing in Concord to protest an “attack” in Clinton’s book, What Happened, that he said references his platform, which includes providing everyone with a pony.