Federal prosecutors in New York charged Mokhtar Belmokhtar, an al-Qaeda Islamist currently at large, with crimes related to an attack on a gas facility in Algeria earlier this year that left 37 hostages dead.
Mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner, who resigned from Congress in disgrace in 2011 after sending lewd messages to women online, has admitted to sending additional sexual messages that surfaced on the Internet this week.
Irma Navarro, a Southern California mother accused of shackling her 10-year-old son, has pleaded not guilty Monday and will be released from custody with an ankle bracelet.
24-year-old Marte Deborah Dalelv, a Norwegian woman at the center of a rape claim she made only to be given a 16-month sentence for reportedly having illicit sex, has been pardoned and is free to leave the country.
