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The day before Valentine's Day brought out a passionate outpouring of activism from noted personalities, including lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and civil rights leader Julian Bond, as well as actress Daryl Hannah, after tying themselves to the White House gate to protest the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada.

Paralympic superstar Oscar Pistorius was charged Thursday with the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, an up-and coming South African model who spoke out on social causes. In the predawn house on Valentine's Day, she was reportedly shot four times in Pistorius' home.

A lawyer for Major League Baseball player, Barry Bonds, who became embroiled in the steroids controversy over 10 years and found guilty of lying to a grand jury, getting two years probation, sought to get his client cleared on Wednesday. Bonds' appellate specialist Dennis Riordan said that his client's long answer he gave before a grand jury was not a true crime.