• President Hassan Rouhani of Iran said in an interview on state television that the nuclear pact signed last month is a "great achievement" and that Tehran will begin implementing the deal's terms by next month.
• Magomed Deniyev, a police spokesman in Russia's Chechnya province, said authorities are investigating three women accused of defrauding the Islamic State out of $3,300 by claiming they needed money to travel to Syria, adding that the women are unlikely to face punishment because the militant group would have to file a complaint.
• Travis Scott, a rapper, will be charged in Chicago with disorderly conduct after he urged fans to jump over security barricades during his performance at the Lollapalooza music festival, said Office of Emergency Management spokesman Melissa Stratton.
• James Tomasek, a scientist involved with the University of Oklahoma's baboon-breeding facility in El Reno, said university President David Boren has ordered an internal review of the program after the deaths of several young baboons.
• Thein Sein, the president of Burma, visited the flooded northwestern town of Kalay and told state TV that water levels are slowly receding and the government plans to begin reconstruction once people return to their homes.
• Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, a GOP presidential candidate, said Planned Parenthood funding should be redirected toward community health centers but stopped short of endorsing a threat by a number of Republicans to block a government funding bill if it contains money for the organization.
• Anthony Imperato, a New Jersey gun manufacturer, is raising money for the medical treatment of 5-year-old Grayson Sutton, a Kansas girl with pulmonary hypertension, by selling .22-caliber rifles that have a sunflower and the phrase "Get well Grayson" etched on them and that cost $30,000 to produce.
• Eli Chaikin, 23, and Dovid Lepkivker, 25, who call themselves the roving rabbis, are crisscrossing Montana in an attempt to reach as many of the state's 3,000 Jews as they can in a month and urge them to follow kosher dietary laws.
• Sgt. Mark Lyon of the Rochester, Mich., Police Department said officers "all had a good laugh" after dashboard camera video showed officer Merlin Taylor going to the aid of a skunk whose head was stuck in a yogurt container, removing the container and escaping without being sprayed.
A Section on 08/03/2015