• President Barack Obama praised the Netherlands as among America's "oldest and most precious allies" as he welcomed Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima to the White House for talks on their cooperation on matters including Ukraine and health concerns such as Ebola.
• Mariana Villarreal, 22, a Georgia Hooters waitress who lost her grandmother to kidney failure, and longtime regular customer Donald Thomas, 72, are both doing well after Villarreal gave Thomas one of her kidneys, doctors said.
• Joshua Wheeler, 25, a Capitol Hill intern for Republican Rep. Lynn Jenkins of Kansas, was put on temporary leave after being charged with carrying a pistol without a license and possessing an unregistered firearm, accused of trying to enter a House office building with an unloaded gun.
• Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's president, invited the country's main opposition leader, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, to inspect the lavatories in his lavish palace, insisting he won't find any gold-plated toilet seats as Kilicdaroglu claimed.
• Prince Charles of the United Kingdom met Romanian President Klaus Iohannis in Bucharest before traveling to the remote Transylvanian village of Valea Zalanului, where Charles owns a country retreat.
• Leander Dewey Jones, 63, of Raleigh, N.C., who was arrested over the weekend on child pornography charges, worked as a shopping mall Santa Claus, authorities said.
• James Rendon, 54, a rear admiral, took command of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut, replacing Rear Adm. Sandra Stosz, who was the first female leader of any U.S. service academy.
• Mike Coffman, a U.S. representative whose district is in Denver's southeastern suburbs, announced he was not going to run for the U.S. Senate next year, depriving Republicans of what many had viewed as their top candidate to try to unseat incumbent Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet.
• Christian Titman, who is a member of the Pit River Tribe, sued his Central California school district over its refusal to allow him to wear an eagle feather during his high school graduation ceremony.
• Dean Skelos, 67, the Republican former leader of the New York Senate, and his son, Adam, 32, pleaded innocent to public corruption charges after prosecutors told a judge that investigators secretly intercepted thousands of their telephone calls.
A Section on 06/02/2015