In the news
President Barack Obama toured the National Institutes of Health in Washington’s Maryland suburbs and urged Congress to approve his request for $6.2 billion in emergency spending for Ebola.
Steve-O, 40, a star of MTV’s Jackass series whose real name is Stephen Gilchrist Glover, was charged with a traffic infraction for a May stunt in which he defaced a freeway sign in San Diego by attaching the word “sucks” after the words “Sea World.”
Jason Puckett, 44, was charged with misdemeanor theft in DeLand, Fla., after a Wal-Mart security guard spotted him slipping two packages of beef tongue, worth $35, into his waistband, police said.
Rose Mary Vogel, 66, an Arizona wife accused of trying to kill her husband, Phillip, by injecting fecal matter into his intravenous line, was sentenced to a year in jail after being convicted of abuse.
Jason Parrish was fired as a budget and policy analyst in Luzerne County, Pa., after he left for vacation without approving an electronic transfer required for about 1,200 government workers to get paid on Black Friday, officials said.
Jaleel Tarik Abdul-Jabbaar, 46, of Kirkland, Wash., was arrested on federal charges of making interstate threats, accused of posting Internet threats against Darren Wilson, the former police officer whom a grand jury decided not to indict in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo.
Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said at a Washington event that a revamp of the tax code focused on corporations and other businesses would mark significant progress even if tax changes for individuals have to wait.
Hillary Rodham Clinton told an audience at a League of Conservation Voters dinner in New York that steps President Barack Obama has taken to help the environment must be protected but she stopped short of mentioning the Keystone XL pipeline, which the league opposes.
Terry Ray Krieger, 59, a paraplegic American man, was ordered jailed for 50 years by a Kenyan court after he pleaded guilty to sexual abuse of minors and child pornography.
David Bergman, a British journalist, was found guilty of contempt in Bangladesh for questioning the official death toll of the 1971 independence war and was ordered to pay about $65 or go to jail for a week.