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Larry Lessig, a Harvard law professor, ended his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, blaming the demise of his three-month campaign on the Democratic Party, which he says leaves him “just shut out” of the candidate debates.
Cary Sharp, husband of Lahoma, Okla., Mayor Theresa Sharp, apologized and said he was embarrassed by a Halloween prank in which he and others dressed as members of the Ku Klux Klan and held a cross in front of a fire to make it appear it was burning.
Uri Ariel, the agriculture minister of Israel, was condemned by animal-welfare activists and mocked by opposition legislator Tzipi Livni after he suggested transferring thousands of stray cats that walk the streets of Israel to another country.
Jeb Bush, the ex-Florida governor and a candidate for the Republican nomination for president, rolled out a reset of his campaign with the slogan “Jeb Can Fix It” and said the election is about principles, “not personalities.”
James Shade, an officer with the Omaha, Neb., Police Department, said an apparently intoxicated 33-year-old woman suffered a hand injury when she broke into the Omaha Zoo and tried to pet Mai, an 18-year-old Malayan tiger, by reaching into the tiger exhibit.
Michelle Obama, the first lady of the U.S., arrived in Qatar as part of a two-country Middle East tour, which includes Jordan, with plans to visit an air base important in America’s fight against the Islamic State and to give a speech on the importance of girls’ education.
Jairon Pena, pastor of New Covenant Missionary Baptist Church in Somerville, N.J., was charged with three counts related to making a false report after police said he lied about three masked people attacking him inside his church, scattering Bibles throughout the building and tying him up.
Bart Aguirre, the Tupelo, Miss., police chief, said Marshall Leonard, 61, was jailed on a charge of detonating an explosive, accused of throwing a newspaper-wrapped package, which made a bang but did no damage, into a Wal-Mart because the chain stopped selling his state’s flags.
Jeff Scabarozi, the Brevard County, Fla., ocean rescue chief, said a 28-year-old woman is in stable condition after being bitten on the calf and ankle by a shark as she waded in waist-deep water in the Atlantic Ocean off Florida’s Cocoa Beach.