Jimmy Carter, the former president, told reporters in Jerusalem that the devastation in the Gaza Strip remains “intolerable” eight months after a war that killed 2,000 Palestinians.
Jack Keller, a spokesman for the New York state police, defended the actions of two troopers in Watertown, N.Y., who placed a 5-year-old special-needs student in handcuffs and shackled his feet while taking him to a hospital for a mental evaluation, saying the boy posed a risk to himself and others.
Warren Buffett, the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, told shareholders at the company’s annual meeting that he remains confident in Berkshire’s investments in companies such as Coca-Cola that make sugary products, because he doesn’t “see smiles on the faces of people at Whole Foods.”
Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany said in her weekly podcast that her country has a duty to deal sensitively with the Nazi era, but she declined to address Greek demands for reparations for the German occupation of Greece during World War II.
Terrance Thibodaux, 24, of Baton Rouge faces several charges, including attempted murder, possession with intent to distribute heroin and obstruction of justice, after police investigating a tip about drug dealing said Thibodaux nearly ran over people while fleeing officers and threw drugs out his car window.
Joe Garrett, a deputy commissioner at the Alabama Department of Revenue, is encouraging people to take identity theft more seriously after his own experience in March, when someone fraudulently filed state and federal income tax returns in his name.
Maj. Gen. Sansern Kaewkamnerd, a Thai government spokesman, said the country is determined “to eliminate every type of human trafficking and block Thailand from being a transit point,” a day after police found 26 bodies in shallow graves at an abandoned jungle camp that was linked to human-trafficking networks.
Willson Wheeler Nixon of Branson, the 24-year-old son of Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, was arrested on a charge of driving while intoxicated after being pulled over in Columbia.
Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, said the GOP won’t recapture the White House if it gets too obsessed with choosing its nominee, warning that it has “become a candidate-crazy party to the detriment of all the mechanics.”