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October 06, 2012 | | READY TO RUMBLE The former WWE chief was trounced in her last Senate run, despite pouring in $50 million of her own money. Now the Republican is within striking distance of Joe Lieberman’s Connecticut seat, ahead of her first debate on Sunday. The Daily Beast’s Lloyd Grove reports. Convicted A Vatican court found Pope Benedict XVI’s former butler guilty Saturday of stealing sensitive documents—but the pope is expected to pardon him. Paolo Gabriele was sentenced to 18 months in prison, half of the three-year sentence requested by the prosecution. The lighter sentence was given because Gabriele had no prior criminal record. The verdict was delivered after two hours of deliberation on the last day of a weeklong trial during which Gabriele claimed he acted out of a “visceral” love for the Roman Catholic Church. He will, for the time being, be under house arrest in the Vatican. PERSON OF INTEREST U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice made headlines this week when she insisted the attack in Benghazi, Libya, was “spontaneous.” Leslie H. Gelb reports in Newsweek on the fallout. ELECTION DAYS A federal appeals court ruled Friday that if soldiers from Ohio can cast ballots ahead of time, everyone else should have the same opportunity. The court said that the state had not shown compelling evidence for why only one group should be permitted to cast ballots on the three days before Election Day. The decision, strongly advocated by the Obama campaign, will likely lead to more ballots cast from poor and elderly voters. There is no word yet on whether the swing state will appeal the decision. Justice After losing a long battle to avoid charges, five terror suspects were extradited to the U.S. from Britain—and at least two of them are expected in court in New Haven, Conn., on Saturday. The group, which includes cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, who allegedly turned a London mosque into a training ground for radicals, was ordered to the U.S. by a British judge who ruled Friday that the suspects had no more grounds for appeal. The appeals process for the men had lasted between eight and 14 years, during which they claimed they would face human-rights violations in a U.S. prison. | | 
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