Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

In the news

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■ Sen. Marco Rubio received an eviction notice from his office space in Jacksonvil­le, Fla., after the building’s landlord chose not to renew the senator’s monthto-month lease because of frequent protesters, whom the landlord described as disruptive to the other tenants.

■ Charles Taney IV, a great- great- grandnephe­w of Roger Brooke Taney, who presided over the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott v. Sandford case, met with descendent­s of Scott and apologized for the “terrible injustice” of the court’s 1857 decision that Scott, as a slave, was not a U.S. citizen and couldn’t sue for his freedom in federal court.

■ Vitaly Milonov, a Russian lawmaker who had sought to ban the new Disney film Beauty and the Beast because its character LeFou is gay, has gotten the Russian Culture Ministry to give the movie a 16-plus rating, meaning it has content unsuitable for children under age 16.

■ Jesse Jackson Jr., the son of civil-rights leader Jesse Jackson, who resigned as an Illinois congressma­n in 2012 and was convicted of spending $750,000 in campaign money on personal items, has been approved to end, after 18 months, his supervised release related to his 2½-year prison sentence.

■ Christophe­r Steele, 53, a former British spy who compiled an unproven dossier on President Donald Trump’s purported activities in Russia, said he is “really pleased” to return to work at London-based Orbis Business Intelligen­ce, a private security firm.

■ Nathan Daniel Larson, who in 2009 was sentenced to 16 months in prison after telling the Secret Service that he planned to kill the president, gathered enough signatures to run as an independen­t for the Virginia House of Delegates in November.

■ Tai Denunzio, 50, of West New York, N.J., was charged with theft after the Port Authority of New York said he owes nearly $51,000 in tolls and fees stemming from 802 electronic toll payment violations.

■ Natty Hagood, 29, a ski instructor who crashed as he was jumping between two trees at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in Wyoming and was impaled through the lip by a tree branch, joked that the wound was just a new piercing.

■ Nick Rizzo, a senior at Locust Valley High School in New York, was named valedictor­ian over his identical twin Matt Rizzo, who is salutatori­an, and the two say they likely will give a combined speech at their June graduation.

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