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• 7. WHAT SNOWDEN DID IN HONG KONG • Lawmaker Albert Ho says the NSA leaker stayed in a private location, switched places a couple of times and slipped out a few times at night. • • 8. RULING FAVORS 6-YEAR-OLD TRANSGENDER CHILD • Colorado officials are holding a news conference today explaining the decision to let Coy Mathis, who identifies as a girl, use the girls' bathroom at school. • • 9. GANDOLFINI FUNERAL PLANS SET • The "Sopranos" star will be remembered at an upper Manhattan cathedral on Thursday, after his body was flown from Italy to his home state of New Jersey. • • 10. SUPERMOON SHINES • The biggest and brightest full moon of the year cast its light around the world Sunday when it came within 222,000 miles of Earth. •
AP News in Brief South Africa president says anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela's condition remains critical
• JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- Nelson Mandela's condition in a Pretoria hospital remained critical for a second straight day Monday, said South Africa's president who described the stricken anti-apartheid hero as being "asleep" when he visited Mandela the previous evening • President Jacob Zuma told at least 60 foreign and South African journalists that doctors are doing everything possible to ensure the 94-year-old's wellbeing and comfort on his 17th day in the hospital. The president repeated some of the content of a presidential statement issued on Sunday and refused to give any details about Mandela's condition, saying: "I'm not a doctor." • "Madiba is critical in the hospital, and this is the father of democracy. This is the man who fought and sacrificed his life to stay in prison, the longest-serving prisoner (Continued on page 31)
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