• President Barack Obama approved the Medal of Honor for 1st Lt. Alonzo H. Cushing, a Union Army officer who made his last stand at the Battle of Gettysburg, defending the Union position on Cemetery Ridge against Pickett's Charge, a major Confederate thrust.
• Klaus Wowereit, 60, Berlin's first openly gay mayor who coined the city's "Poor but sexy" slogan, which helped attract hip young people from around the globe, told reporters that he will resign Dec. 11 after more than 13 years in office.
• Louis Freeh, 64, the former FBI director, was seriously injured in a single-car crash in Vermont, said state police, adding that drugs and alcohol are not believed to be factors.
• Chuck Hagel, the secretary of defense, has recommended a posthumous Medal of Honor for Sgt. Henry Johnson, a black World War I soldier from upstate New York who saved a comrade while fighting off a German attack in France, said U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.
• Kevin Counihan, a Connecticut official who leads the health insurance marketplace Access Health CT, was picked by the Obama administration to run healthcare.gov ahead of its second open enrollment season.
• Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, is going to Kentucky on Oct. 2 to raise money for U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who faces a competitive midterm race against Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes.
• Andy Lee House, 39, of Lufkin, Texas, pleaded guilty to wire fraud, admitting he deliberately drove his $1 million Bugatti Veyron into Gulf waters so he could collect insurance on the vehicle.
• Michael Allen Jackson, 18, was charged in Cumberland County, N.C., with felony assault on a handicapped person, accused of beating his grandfather Glenn Maynor, 63, after an argument over $5.
• Rick Womick, a Republican state lawmaker in Tennessee, called Gov. Bill Haslam a "traitor to the party" over what he called efforts by a political action committee run by Haslam supporters to defeat opponents of Common Core education standards.
• Clive Palmer, an Australian mining magnate turned lawmaker, apologized to China regarding a tirade on national television in which he called the Chinese "bastards" and "mongrels" and accused Beijing of trying to take over Australia.
A Section on 08/27/2014