• Mike Rawlings, the mayor of Dallas, was credited with saving Helen Mayer by using the Heimlich maneuver after she began choking at a Mexican restaurant where the mayor was having lunch with his son.
• Kim Chambers, 38, of San Francisco became the first woman and fifth person ever to swim the 30-mile stretch from the Farallon Islands off the California coast to the Golden Gate Bridge, finishing the task in 17 hours.
• Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, a Republican contender for president, told CNN’s State of the Union that he would sign a measure being pushed by Democrats in the state Legislature requiring all police officers to wear body cameras.
• Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, defended rival Hillary Rodham Clinton against criticism he called “sexist,” telling CBS’ Face the Nation that he didn’t think “a man would be treated the same way” she has been over her use of a private email server.
• Pope Francis used his Sunday blessing in the Vatican to remember the U.S. detonation of atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki 70 years ago, saying the bombings in Japan remain “a permanent warning to humanity” to reject war and ban weapons of mass destruction.
• Mahdi Hashemi Rafsanjani, son of former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, began his 10-year sentence on corruption and security charges but maintained his conviction and trial were “unjust” and “politically motivated.”
• Gerard Depardieu, the French-born actor who took Russian citizenship in 2013, is among 14 Russian entertainment figures blacklisted by Ukraine, which said it will ban the screening of films featuring those on the list because they pose a threat to national security.
• Deldrick Fowler, 22, of Louisiana was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for counterfeiting currency after federal agents seized two counterfeit $100 bills, 16 uncut sheets of fully printed bills and 10 uncut sheets of partially printed bills from his room at a casino hotel in Lake Charles, La.
• Bettye Wilson, 66, of St. Louis has been charged with delivery of a controlled substance at a correctional facility, accused of hiding heroin balloons in her mouth with the intent to smuggle them to an inmate at a Missouri prison through a kiss, according to a probable cause statement.