• President Barack Obama believes Caitlyn Jenner, the Olympian formerly known as Bruce who has come out as a transgender woman, "has shown tremendous courage" and that "that's worthy of our respect," said Josh Earnest, the White House spokesman.
• Dennis Burke, an orthopedic surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, said doctors completed surgery on Secretary of State John Kerry's broken leg and predicted he would make a full recovery.
• Dias Kadyrbayev, 21, a college friend of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was sentenced to six years in prison for removing items from Tsarnaev's dorm room after recognizing his friend in photos released by the FBI days after the bombing.
• Brandon Orlando Baldwin, 24, and Olajuwon Davis, 23, both of St. Louis, pleaded guilty to federal charges that they planned a bomb attack targeting the Ferguson, Mo., police chief and other officials after the killing of a black 18-year-old by a white police officer, with both agreeing to spend a total of seven years in prison.
• Thomas Durkin, a federal judge in Illinois, delayed without explanation former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert's first court appearance until next week after his indictment in Chicago in a hush-money case.
• Michael Enright, a British actor who has had minor roles in Hollywood films, has joined Kurdish fighters battling the Islamic State group in Syria and appeared in an online video released by the Kurdish People's Protection Units.
• President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan was sworn in for another five-year term extending his 25-year autocratic rule, despite a tenure that includes civil wars, sanctions and an international war-crimes indictment.
• Helmut Kohl, 85, the former German chancellor who oversaw reunification, has had to spend longer than anticipated in a hospital after a hip operation and is doing well, his office said.
• Anthony Trakemon Powell, 24, of Houston was being held without bail on a capital-murder charge, accused in the beating death of his 3-year-old son after the boy had potty-training accidents.
• Starri Hedges, a sex-education teacher who drew the ire of parents after taking middle- and high-school students on a field trip to an adult novelty store in Minneapolis, told the Star Tribune she probably would not take another class to the store.
A Section on 06/03/2015