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Bill Cosby is no longer an honorary chief petty officer after the U.S. Navy revoked the title, saying allegations of sexual abuse made against the comedian are serious and conflict with the Navy’s core values.
Chris Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, said during a speech in Calgary, Alberta, that the U.S. government’s delayed approval of the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada “is no way to treat a friend.”
Miriam Moskowitz, 98, who was convicted in 1950 of conspiracy to obstruct justice in the run-up to the atomic spying trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, lost her bid to persuade a New York judge to erase her conviction.
Steve Beshear, the governor of Kentucky, and Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt are among 10 people named to a Democratic National Committee panel to examine the party’s struggles during the 2014 and 2010 elections and recommend solutions.
Lisa Quam and her husband, Everett, of Auburn, Wash., claimed a $90 million Powerball jackpot and said they will quit their jobs and take care of their family.
Patrick Allen, 47, of Middletown, N.J., was convicted of murder for bludgeoning his wife, Kimberly, with a frying pan, then strangling her in 2011, apparently after they argued over the dire state of their finances.
Alicia Gould, 28, was charged with attempted murder in Webster, N.Y., accused of tossing a pluggedin radio alarm clock into a motel bathtub while her boyfriend was in it.
Myron Lee Kipp, 77, a Farmington, Utah, man accused of sunbathing nude in his backyard next to a church parking lot, failed to show up at a court hearing in his lewdness case, prompting a judge to issue an arrest warrant.
Richard Chichakli, a Syrian associate of international arms dealer Viktor Bout, was sentenced in New York to five years in prison for his 2013 conspiracy and wire fraud conviction.
George Robert Pineda, 44, faces domestic battery charges in central Florida, accused of assaulting a woman in a motel room in Ocala after she said that he should take anger management classes.
Joe Biden, the vice president, led a ceremonial groundbreaking for the first major expansion of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, nearly 50 years after construction began on the cultural center.