Julian Castro, secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, defended presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton against scrutiny of her use of a private email server, saying on CNN’s State of the Union that Republican leaders are conducting a “witch hunt” on the former secretary of state.
Pablo Iglesias, leader of Spain’s leftist Podemos party, a grass-roots movement founded last year, marked a “magical night” of local elections in which unofficial results showed key gains for his party’s political alliances on the Barcelona and Madrid city councils.
Matt Fuller, 37, one of two protesters who affixed themselves to a Royal Dutch Shell PLC oil-drilling support ship in Bellingham Bay near Seattle, detached himself from the Arctic Challenger’s anchor chain after only one day, while fellow activist Chiara D’Angelo remained behind in a hammock.
Prince Johnson, 60, who has served 44 years of a life sentence for his role in a fatal shooting of an ice cream vendor’s wife, was ordered released by a Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge on grounds that the sentencing of Johnson as an adult in 1971, when he was 16, had been unlawful.
Jovan Felix, 36, was sentenced to 28 years in prison for the stabbing in 2013 of a doorman at a nightclub in Sacramento, Calif., an assault that prosecutors said stemmed from his anger about a botched drink order.
Vansan Josea Oatis, a minister in McComb, Miss., has been charged along with fellow former police officers Justin Codey Herrington, Richard Charles Pack and Michael Williams on two counts of sexual activity with a jail inmate.
Tanner A. Drayton-Williams of Woodland Hills, Calif., was arrested and faces four counts of second-degree assault after authorities said he drove his car through the Gorge Amphitheater campground, hitting tents and parked vehicles and injuring pedestrians.
John Waters, the director of such cult film classics as Pink Flamingos and Hairspray, will receive an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design, where he will deliver the keynote speech at the art school’s graduation ceremony.
Charles Benning, a 92-year-old Army veteran from Ohio, will receive an honorary diploma from Yellow Springs High School, which he left early to fight in World War II.