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Former U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. has been sentenced to 30 months in prison on Wednesday, largely due to the misappropriation of his campaign finances. Sandi Jackson, the ex-Illinois lawmaker's wife Sandi also received a 12-month sentence for her role in misusing roughly $750,000.

Convicted leaker Pfc. Bradley Manning took the stand on Wednesday and apologized for "hurting his country," pleading with a military judge to enable him to go to college and become a productive citizen.

Hannah Anderson, the 16-year-old kidnapped California girl who was then then rescued in the Idaho backcountry reportedly broke her silence on social media and offered new details about her ordeal, saying her captor James DiMaggio "deserved what he got" when he was shot to death by authorities, the Associated Press reported.