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George Will, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, said he has split with the Republican Party because of its presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump, telling GOP voters that they should make sure Trump loses and just "grit their teeth for four years" and try to win the White House with a future candidate.

Chauncy Black, 16, of Memphis had requested just a few doughnuts for helping Matt White carry groceries to his car, but White bought him a cart full of food and established a GoFundMe page that led to a wave of donations topping $210,000.

Jason Wurtz, 44, of Encino, Calif., whose dog SweePee Rambo, a 17-year-old Chinese Crested Chihuahua, won the 28th annual World's Ugliest Dog contest, said he will use the $1,500 prize to pay for the removal of a tumor on SweePee's gum line.

F. Lee Bailey, 83, one of O.J. Simpson's defense lawyers in his 1995 trial, has filed for bankruptcy in Maine in a bid to discharge an IRS debt of more than $5 million.

Masood Syed, a Muslim police officer in New York who was suspended for having a 1-inch beard in violation of department rules, said he was "relieved" when a federal judge ordered the city to reinstate his pay and benefits.

Erica Witt of Knoxville, Tenn., in divorcing Sabrina Witt, her same-sex spouse who gave birth by artificial insemination last year to a daughter, cannot be legally recognized as the baby's parent because a 1977 Tennessee law in insemination cases specifies parental rights for mothers and their husbands, not for same-sex spouses, a judge has ruled.

Kebede Worku, Ethiopia's junior health minister, said 69 million condoms purchased with $2 million in donations must be discarded because they failed a quality-control department's elasticity test and break easily.

Jeff Landry, Louisiana's attorney general, who said he is "grateful" that his "loving mother did not spare the rod" in teaching him right from wrong, is reviewing the case of Schaquana Spears, 30, of Baton Rouge, who was arrested after she whipped her three sons, ages 13 and 12, when she found out they had burglarized a neighbor's house.

Baron Brooks, 48, whose father, Arthur Brooks, 78, took out an ad in the Idaho Coeur d'Alene Press seeking women interested in marrying his son, called the advertisement "embarrassing" but said he'd let his father go forward with interviews.

A Section on 06/26/2016

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