Stephen Mull, the U.S. ambassador to Poland, said comments by FBI Director James Comey suggesting that Poles were accomplices in the Holocaust, which prompted Poland’s Foreign Ministry to protest and demand an apology, were “wrong, harmful and offensive” and didn’t reflect the U.S. government’s views.
Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican and presidential candidate, said on CBS’ Face the Nation that he does not believe sexual orientation is a choice for the “enormous majority of people” but that the issue of gay marriage should be decided by the states.
Jesus Salas Aguayo, the purported leader of the Juarez drug cartel whom Mexican authorities have linked to a 2010 car bombing in Ciudad Juarez and a 2012 bar attack that killed 15, was captured in the municipality of Villa Ahumada, said National Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido.
Gov. Bill Walker of Alaska saved the lives of a black bear and four cubs, which have been feasting on garbage in an Anchorage neighborhood, by asking the state’s fish and game commissioner whether the animals could be relocated rather than shot.
Rodgers Mbithi, the Kenya police air wing commander whose unit is under investigation for its slow response to an extremist attack in which 148 people were killed at a university, denied allegations that his use of a police plane to fly relatives from Mombasa to Nairobi delayed a counterinsurgency team’s deployment.
George Middleton of Murchison, Texas, said he “might as well throw away [his] metal detector” after a search on land once owned by Pvt. Elmer Jordan led to the “once-in-a-lifetime” discovery of the World War I soldier’s dog tag, which Middleton returned to Jordan’s family.
Hashim Hashim, CEO of Kuwait Oil Co., announced that the state-run company has discovered four oil fields that he said will “fortify Kuwait’s standing as an international producer of oil.”
Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat and former two-term governor of West Virginia, said he will run for re-election in 2018 rather than make another gubernatorial bid, saying he believes he can have the greatest effect by staying in Washington.
Ivy Taylor, the mayor of San Antonio, was unhurt after a city vehicle in which she was a passenger collided with a convertible at an intersection, leaving four people injured.