• Cory Booker, the Democratic senator from New Jersey, is on a mission to take selfies with all 99 of his fellow senators and has posted 10 photographs on Instagram.
• Marlene Pinnock, 51, a California woman who was repeatedly punched by a patrol officer after she was found walking on a freeway, is still hospitalized but she's no longer under mandatory mental evaluation, said Caree Harper, her family's lawyer.
• President Barack Obama said in his weekly address that his visits with White House-selected pen pals, including a college student and the owners of a Colorado sandwich shop franchise, demonstrate the need for Congress to act on his stalled economic agenda.
• Hannah Cowan and Michael Knight, two interns with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, were among a group of interns who went on a three-day trek across a blistering stretch of Utah desert, following part of the 1846 path of the ill-fated Donner party.
• Estakio Beltran, a Washington state Democrat running for Congress, removed an online campaign video that showed him blasting an elephant-shaped pinata with a shotgun after drawing criticism from groups including former Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' Americans for Responsible Solutions.
• William "Billy" Flynn, a New Hampshire man who was 16 when his adult lover and teacher, Pamela Smart, recruited him and his friends to kill her husband in 1990, was transferred to a facility in Warren, Maine, as part of a work-release program.
• Vice President Joe Biden offered condolences to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko over recent killings in eastern Ukraine and expressed support for Poroshenko's efforts to meet with the separatists on a possible new cease-fire.
• Lazar Krstic, the finance minister of Serbia, resigned, saying he disagreed with the prime minister over the pace of change and the austerity measures to restart the Balkan country's economy.
• Pete Holmes, the city attorney for Seattle, apologized for breaking a rule against drugs in the workplace when he took marijuana back to his office after buying it on the first day of legal sales in the state.
• William Buchman, 53, a Southern California teacher who had 400 snakes in his home, including 280 that were dead or dying, pleaded guilty to failing to provide proper care for them and was sentenced to 100 hours of community service.
A Section on 07/13/2014