Supreme Court justice assaulted during jog

Supreme Court justiceassaulted during jog
WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court Justice David Souter was assaulted while jogging alone and was released from a hospital early Saturday after being treated for what a spokeswoman called "minor injuries."
Several young men assaulted Souter after 9 p.m. Friday on a city street, court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said. She said Souter was not robbed.
Supreme Court police took him to Washington Hospital Center. He was examined and released about 1:30 a.m. Saturday.
"He sustained some minor injuries but otherwise is feeling fine," Arberg said, declining to give further details.
The Washington Metropolitan Police and the hospital had no comment on the incident.
5 die in Texas flooding
CORSICANA, Texas -- Two toddlers swept away in a stalled car were found dead Saturday, bringing to five the number of people killed in North Texas floods during weekend storms.
Police said the toddlers were in their father's car, which was swept away just after midnight Friday after it stalled on a bridge in Corsicana. The children's father was trying to pull them from the vehicle when it was carried away, police said.
The body of a man whose vehicle was swept against a guard rail by rising waters also was found Saturday. The vehicle's passenger got out safely, police said.
In Fort Worth, a woman and her 2 1/2-year-old son died Friday night after she tried to drive across a flooded road, said fire department spokesman Lt. Kent Worley.
Ancient tablets returned
TEHRAN, Iran -- The University of Chicago on Saturday returned 300 ancient clay tablets taken from Iran on loan 67 years ago, marking the first U.S. return of borrowed Iranian artifacts since the Middle Eastern state's 1979 Islamic revolution.
The clay tablets belong to the Achaemenid dynasty that ruled ancient Persia about 2,500 years ago. They have provided historians with details about the languages and daily life in the Persian empire.
The tablets were received in Iran on Saturday, the official Islamic Republic News Agency said, citing National Museum chief Mohammed Reza Kargar.
Archeologists discovered the tablets in 1933 in the ruins of Persepolis, capital of the Achaemenid dynasty.
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