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Liz Cheney, 46, a Fox News political commentator and the elder of Dick Cheney’s two daughters, will run against Wyoming’s senior U.S. senator, Mike Enzi, in next year’s Republican primary, her campaign said.
President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela and his longtime companion, former Attorney General Cilia Flores, married in a civil ceremony presided over by the ruling socialists’ Caracas mayor, Jorge Rodriguez.
David Petraeus, who quit as CIA director after it was uncovered he’d had an affair with his biographer, is taking a big salary cut and will now earn $1 for his visiting professorship in the next academic year at the City University of New York’s honors college after being criticized for the $200,000 that Gawker.com first reported he was getting paid.
Edward Markey, 67, a Massachusetts Democrat first elected to the House in 1976 at age 30, took the oath as the newest member of the Senate after winning a special election for the seat John Kerry held until resigning to become secretary of state.
Dexter Scott King, the younger son of civil-rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., married longtime fiancee Leah Weber in a private ceremony in California.
Rod Blagojevich, 56, filed an appeal in Chicago that challenges the imprisoned former Illinois governor’s corruption conviction and 14-year prison term, including grounds that the trial judge committed numerous errors.
Thomas George Paculis of Newfield, N.Y., pleaded innocent in Chatham County Superior Court in Georgia to charges he tried to extort celebrity cook Paula Deen of $200,000 in exchange for keeping quiet about purportedly damaging remarks Deen has made in the past.
Bernard Hogan-Howe, Britain’s top policeman, apologized for using the names of 42 dead children born between 1940 and 1975 to help establish false identities for undercover work.
Emerson Begolly, 24, a western Pennsylvania man whom authorities called a “homegrown, radical extremist,” was sentenced to 8½ years in prison for helping lead an Internet forum that promoted terrorist attacks against American military and civilian targets.
Patrick Higbie, an animal-control officer equipped with hot-dog bits, managed to rescue a 15-pound Chihuahua mix that somehow found itself stuck on the roof of a Vancouver, Wash., area house.