• George H.W. Bush, 91, the former president, returned home to Kennebunkport after he was released from Maine Medical Center, where he received treatment after he fell at his summer home and fractured a vertebra in his neck.
• Pope Francis hailed as "courageous" the tens of thousands of people who braved the noontime sun at St. Peter's Square to hear him speak during a heat wave in which temperatures are forecast to top 100 degrees in Rome this week.
• Donald Trump, a Republican presidential candidate, stood by comments in which he questioned Sen. John McCain's status as a war hero, telling ABC's This Week that other GOP candidates have attacked him because they are "extremely upset" by his lead in recent polling.
• Desmond Tutu, 83, the retired archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize laureate from South Africa, has completed antibiotic treatment for an infection but will remain in the hospital for observation, according to his Desmond and Leah Tutu Foundation.
• Bernd Lucke, a founding member of the Alternative for Germany party who left after losing the party's leadership to a rival, announced the creation of a new party with a fiscally conservative and euroskeptic message, the Alliance for Progress and Renewal, to be known by its German acronym ALFA, of which he will serve as chairman.
• Steven Romeo, 55, of Long Island, N.Y., pleaded innocent to a misdemeanor charge of driving while intoxicated after his pickup crashed into a limousine making a U-turn at an intersection, killing four of the limo's eight passengers, who were returning from a winery tour.
• Kevin Broadway, 42, was convicted in East Baton Rouge Parish, La., of using a shoelace to strangle a prostitute, whose body was found in 2011 behind a Motel 6 in Baton Rouge.
• Russell Simmons, the hip-hop mogul who at a recent event called for the ban of horse-drawn carriages in New York City, likening the practice to a "holocaust," said he didn't intend to insult anyone and that he wasn't comparing the conditions of carriage horses to the experiences of Jews at the hands of the Nazis.
• Robert Stahl, a retired professor, filed a petition with New Mexico's Supreme Court to order the state to create an official death certificate for William H. Bonney, known as Billy the Kid, in an effort to disprove local legends that the outlaw lived long after he was reported fatally shot by a sheriff in 1881.
A Section on 07/20/2015