Monday,  May 13, 2013 • Vol. 14--No. 297 • 25 of 28 •  Other Editions

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• Korman said politics is behind efforts by Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius to block the unrestricted sale of the Plan B One-Step morning-after pill and its generic competitors.
• Justice Department lawyers want the ruling stayed while they appeal.
• If the government fails, it would clear the way for over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill to younger girls. The FDA announced earlier this month that the contraception could be sold without a prescription to those 15 and older, a decision Korman said merely sugarcoated the appeal of his order lifting the age restriction.
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ABC News veteran Barbara Walters to announce her retirement on Monday's edition of 'The View'

• NEW YORK (AP) -- Barbara Walters is retiring.
• The veteran ABC News anchor is set to announce Monday morning on "The View" that she will retire from TV journalism next summer.
• ABC said in an announcement late Sunday that, until then, Walters will continue to anchor and report for the network, anchor specials throughout the year, and ap

pear on "The View." She will remain executive producer of "The View," the weekday talk show she created in 1997.
• The 83-year-old Walters has spent 37 years at ABC News, joining the network in 1976 to become the first female co-anchor on an evening news program. Three years later, she became a co-host of ABC's "20/20" newsmagazine.
• Before coming to ABC, she spent 15 years at NBC News, where she was a co-host of the "Today" show.
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Things to Know about OJ Simpson's appearance in a Las Vegas courtroom

• LAS VEGAS (AP) -- WHY IS O.J. SIMPSON IN COURT?
• The 65-year-old former football star is serving nine to 33 years in a Nevada prison after a jury found him guilty in 2008 of leading the gunpoint robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas hotel room. Simpson wants a new trial because he says his longtime lawyer from Miami, Yale Galanter, failed to disclose that he knew about the plan in advance, told Simpson it was legal and provided bad advice at trial.

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