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Candy Crowley, 65, CNN’s chief political correspondent and news anchor of State of the Union, is leaving the network at the end of this month after 27 years and says she doesn’t yet know her next move.
King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Thailand’s revered and ailing monarch, who turned 87 Friday, canceled his annual birthday address on the advice of doctors, just days after they said he was healthy enough to proceed with it.
President Jose Mujica of Uruguay reiterated in a letter to President Barack Obama his willingness to resettle six Guantanamo prisoners in his country while calling on the United States to end its decades-old embargo on Cuba.
Nigel Farage, the U.K. Independence Party leader, defended Claridge’s, a posh London hotel that recently insisted that a mother cover up as she breast-fed her baby, and suggested that women “sit in the corner” while they feed their babies.
Jean-Yves Le Drian, France’s defense minister, said in an interview that two warships ordered by Russia may never be delivered because of its actions in Ukraine.
Gerry Adams, the Irish nationalist leader whose Sinn Fein Party has long taken a pro-Palestinian position, said Israel barred him from making a planned visit to the Gaza Strip during a three-day tour of the region.
Thomas Pfeiffer, a licensed anesthesiologist from Red Hook, N.Y., was charged with strangulation, assault and abortion in the second degree after police say he choked a woman at a Rosendale home and forced her to swallow a pill that could cause an abortion after she told him she was pregnant.
Evangeline Shelland, 70, of Alamogordo, N.M., who says she was banished from a bingo hall two years ago after people accused her of driving erratically in the parking lot, asked the state attorney general’s office to help get the ban lifted, but the office said it had no jurisdiction over the club and couldn’t force it to allow her to play.
Joshua Malmgren, 33, of Lower Township, N.J., who was drunk and texting when his car hit and killed two teenage cousins, received 18 years in prison for aggravated manslaughter and called himself a monster during the sentencing hearing.
Edmund J. Sharp IV, a former postmaster in North Dakota, was sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to misappropriation of postal funds, money that he said he used to meet the high cost of living in that state’s oil region.