• President Barack Obama will appear for the seventh time on The Daily Show on Tuesday, three weeks before Jon Stewart leaves the program and hands off hosting to Trevor Noah, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said.
• John Kirby, the State Department spokesman, said the Cuban flag will be hung in the lobby of the department early Monday, joining those of other nations with which the United States has diplomatic relations.
• Emma Didlake, 110, a Detroit woman who signed up for the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in 1943 and is believed to be the nation's oldest veteran, was greeted in the Oval Office by President Barack Obama, who tweeted afterward that she is a "true American hero."
• Anders Behring Breivik, 36, the extremist serving 21 years in prison for killing 77 people in politically motivated bomb-and-gun massacres in 2011 in Norway, was admitted to the University of Oslo's political science program although he will stay in his cell to study, the university's rector said.
• Khaled Mashaal, the leader of the Palestinian group Hamas, shook hands with Saudi Arabia's King Salman after Muslim holiday prayers in Mecca, Hamas said, signaling an easing of tensions over Hamas' ties with Iran, a Saudi rival.
• Carmine Agnello, 55, a reputed member of the Gambino crime family and former son-in-law of mobster John Gotti, was freed on a $100,000 personal bond after his arrest earlier this week in Cleveland on charges related to a $3 million scam involving stolen cars and scrap metal.
• Steven Sann, 61, a Montana man who pleaded guilty in April to wire fraud and money laundering, was sentenced to two years in prison for tricking people who had answered questions on a website into unknowingly signing up for voice mail or fax accounts and paying up to $70 million nationwide in unauthorized charges on their phone bills.
• Brad Lee Davis of McLoud, Okla., who pleaded guilty in May to first-degree manslaughter, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after he admitted strangling his stepfather Denver Lee St. Clair by pulling the older man's underwear over his head and using the elastic band to cut off his airway.
• Jeffrey Nichols, a police officer in St. Petersburg, Fla., was recognized for buying a new bicycle and lock for Guy Sloben, 41, a mentally disabled grocery bagger whose bike, which he rode to work, was stolen about two weeks ago.
A Section on 07/18/2015