• Pope Francis, noting a march through St. Peter's Square in Vatican City by a few hundred people in support of a United Nations climate-change conference in December, encouraged people of different religions to work together in caring for the earth, which he called humanity's "common house."
• Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland, who last week announced that he's been diagnosed with an advanced stage of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, said in a Facebook post that he has begun chemotherapy treatments and that he's "feeling healthy and strong."
• Joseph Weindl, 39, of Richmond, Va., was charged with misdemeanor destruction of property after police said he admitted to spray-painting an "L" on the granite base of a monument that honors Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
• President Enrique Pena Nieto of Mexico, who underwent surgery Friday to remove his gallbladder, was discharged from a Mexico City hospital and plans to return today to his regular schedule, which includes a visit by Spanish King Felipe VI.
• Anthony Doerr, a novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for All the Light We Cannot See, and Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy, about the criminal justice system, were awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence during a ceremony in San Francisco.
• Reda al-Fouly, an Egyptian woman who was shown dancing while scantily clad in a music video that went viral on social media, was one of three people sentenced to a year in prison with labor for inciting debauchery.
• Roy Moore, the chief justice of Alabama's high court, criticized the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that gave same-sex partners the right to marry nationwide, telling the congregation at Kimberly Church of God that the justices' decision went against the Constitution and that Christians will be persecuted for disagreeing with it.
• Sgt. Donna Valdepena of the Wylie, Texas, Police Department said an 88-year-old woman is unlikely to face charges after she reportedly mistook her SUV's gas pedal for the brake and accelerated into a CiCi's Pizza restaurant, injuring seven people.
• Barbara Hendricks, Germany's environment minister, said the shutdown of the country's oldest nuclear reactor, part of a plan to shut off all of Germany's nuclear plants by the end of 2022, is "a visible signal that the nuclear exit is moving forward."
A Section on 06/29/2015