Randolph L. Braham, a historian and Holocaust survivor, is returning a Hungarian state award and asked that his name be removed from the Holocaust Memorial Center’s BrahamTheque Information Center, in a protest of what he said are government efforts to exonerate the country from its role in the Nazi campaign.
Toshiki Abe, 49, a worker at a Japanese food manufacturer, was arrested after police said he was found with a pesticide that was used to poison products, sickening about 2,800 people and forcing the recall of 6 million packages of frozen food.
Paul Broun, a Georgia congressman who gained national attention when he called evolutionary theory “lies from the pit of Hell,” invited supporters of his U.S. Senate campaign to enter a drawing for an AR-15 assault rifle, in a show of support for Second Amendment rights.
Kofi Annan, the former United Nations secretary-general, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu are heading a group of global leaders who are meeting with Iranian officials to encourage the country’s “new spirit of openness” and discuss ways to address conflicts in the Middle East.
Kynan Dutton, who moved to Leith, N.D., with fellow white supremacist Craig Cobb in an effort to amass a voting majority in the town of 23 to turn it into an Aryan enclave, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor counts of menacing and disorderly conduct for terrorizing residents with guns.
Xu Zhiyong, a legal scholar and founder of a Chinese social movement, was sentenced to four years in jail for disrupting order in public places, in a case the U.S. government has criticized as retribution against Xu’s push to fight corruption.
Don Matthews, a religious-studies professor at Naropa University in Boulder, Colo., who was suspended for staging a silent protest against purported racial bias at the university, was reinstated and has hired an attorney to negotiate the terms of his employment.
Valerie Trierweiler, France’s former first lady, made a humanitarian visit to India to work with the aid group Action Against Hunger, a day after the announcement of her split with French President Francois Hollande.
Sean Patrick Sellers, 16, of Mifflinburg, Pa., was arrested and will be charged as an adult after police said the teen stole a car and a .22-caliber pistol, then fired at a state trooper who stopped him on an interstate.
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