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• The gun wasn't fired, and Ford wasn't hurt.
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• PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning, who was previously known as Bradley Manning, wants estrogen treatments that would promote breast development and other female characteristics, which she'd be willing to pay for, while she's incarcerated at the all-men military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., her lawyer said.
• Attorney David Coombs told The Associated Press on Monday that Manning hoped the military prison "will simply do the right thing" based on their request for hormone treatment so the soldier will not have to sue in military or civilian court. Coombs said at this point, Manning does not want sex-reassignment surgery and expects to be kept with men in prison where she's serving time for leaking mountains of classified material to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks.
• Coombs said Manning decided to announce that she wanted to live as a woman the day after sentencing because the prison said publicly it would not provide hormone treatment, her attorney said Monday.
• Attorney David Coombs told The Associated Press that Manning had known for a long time she would make such a statement, but "she wanted, essentially, for the media surrounding the trial to dissipate."
• Manning did not want people to think the statement was insincere.
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• NEW YORK (AP) -- A decade or so ago, Serena and Venus Williams ruled tennis together, swapping the No. 1 ranking and meeting in Grand Slam final after Grand Slam final.
• Serena, the younger of the two, still holds a spot at the top of the game.
• Venus has not been there for quite some time.
• So there was a turn-back-the-clock feel to Day 1 at the 2013 U.S. Open, when both sisters were about as good as can be, dropping a combined four games in Arthur Ashe Stadium. Venus, now ranked 60th, beat 12th-seeded Kirsten Flipkens 6-1, 6-2 Monday afternoon, and then Serena reduced 2010 French Open champion

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