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North Dakota, said the aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the discussions were private.
• As lobbying escalated, wounded former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and husband Mark Kelly, a retired astronaut, were planning a news conference Tuesday with Manchin and Toomey, said a Senate aide speaking on condition of anonymity to describe an event not publicly announced.
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Lawyer: Teen who was sexually assaulted in Calif. found drawings, name on body when she awoke
• SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Awakening in a friend's bedroom after drinking too much at a sleepover, 15-year-old Audrie Pott looked down and realized she had been sexually assaulted and her attackers had written and drawn on intimate parts of her body, her family's attorney said Monday.
• Over the next week, she pieced together one horrifying detail after another. She went online and tried to confront the three boys she had known since junior high who she believed had done it.
• At school, she saw a group of students huddled around a cellphone and realized that at least one humiliating photo of her was circulating.
• "I have a reputation for a night I don't even remember and the whole school knows," she wrote in one Facebook message to a friend.
• "I cried when I found out what they did," she wrote in another.
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North Korea marks Kim Il Sung birthday, makes prickly threats and refuses talks with Seoul
• PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- After a day of festivities to mark the 101st birthday of its first leader, North Korea on Tuesday offered prickly new rhetoric against the United States and South Korea, which are watching closely for signs whether it will conduct a medium-range missile test in defiance of international concerns.
• State media said the Supreme Command of the Korean People's Army issued an ultimatum demanding an apology from South Korea for "hostile acts" and threatening that unspecified retaliatory actions would happen at any time.
• The statement, relayed through the KCNA state media agency, came after a day of festivities in North Korea's capital that featured art performances, public dances and crowds thronging to giant bronze statues to pay homage to the late leader Kim (Continued on page 24)
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