Bill Clinton, the former president, visited Vietnam to commemorate the 20th anniversary of normalizing relations with that country and described it as “one of the most important achievements of my presidency.”
Mitch McConnell, Senate majority leader, told a chamber of commerce in Kentucky that the Republican majority is unlikely to confirm an ambassador to Cuba as the United States prepares to reopen its embassy in the country.
Carmelo Mercado, 63, a retired Queens firefighter who responded to the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, won $5 million on a lottery scratch-off ticket.
Larry Hogan, the firstterm Republican governor of Maryland, posted on social media that he is out of the hospital and back at work after his first round of chemotherapy for B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Jean Plantureux, a French cartoonist known as Plantu, was acquitted of accusations of inciting hatred for a drawing representing former Pope Benedict XVI sexually abusing a child.
Li Tingting and Teresa Xu, a prominent Chinese lesbian couple, held a ceremony in a suburb of Beijing to announce their informal marriage in their latest effort to push for the legalization of same-sex unions in China.
Robert Wilson, 30, was being held in lieu of $1 million bond in Maryland, charged with offenses including first-degree assault and child abuse, after his girlfriend’s 9-year-old son was handcuffed and beaten for eating a piece of birthday cake without permission.
Cam Ward, 44, a Republican state senator in Alabama, said he is seeking professional help after his arrest on a charge of driving under the influence.
Michael Gregory, 20, a Massachusetts man who police say crashed a pickup through the front of an 18th-century home on Cape Cod, was arraigned on charges including operating under the influence.
Robert Haney, 39, and Michael Gilligan, 32, were charged in Rhode Island with conspiracy and receiving stolen property, accused of stealing bronze markers from the graves of veterans and selling them for scrap.
Mohammed Abdi, 26, a clerk at a Pic N Save in Kansas City, Mo., was charged with armed criminal action, accused of shooting a 16-year-old in the leg as the teen was walking out the door while purportedly shoplifting some cookies.