Steve Mnuchin, the treasury secretary, rejected calls from fellow Yale University alumni that he resign in protest against President Donald Trump’s comments on white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va., saying that Trump “in no way, shape or form” equates hate groups with those that peacefully protest.
Nabil Abu Rdeneh, a Palestinian spokesman, said the territory is still waiting for a “clear vision” from the U.S. on peace talks with Israel, as White House adviser Jared Kushner prepares to visit the Middle East this week to discuss a resumption of negotiations.
Jacqueline Jones, a lawyer who pleaded guilty to calling in a bomb threat to the day care center at the federal courthouse in Syracuse, N.Y., in 2015 to avoid a contentious court hearing, was sentenced to a year of probation and fined $20,000.
Socrates Villegas, a Catholic archbishop in the Philippines’ Pangasinan province, said church bells in his district will toll for 15 minutes each night for three months as “a call to stop approval of the killings” of suspects under President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug crackdown.
Malia Obama, 19, who was accepted to Harvard last year but instead took a break to travel and intern at a film production company, will begin a new chapter this week when she arrives at the university that boasts influential alumni including her parents.
Anthony Ventura, 30, faces a criminal mischief charge in Indianapolis, accused of using a hammer to chip pieces off a granite tower that lists the names of 1,616 Confederate soldiers who died at a prisoner-of-war camp.
Elysha Brooks and Christian Evans are calling for the closure of a day care center in Florissant, Mo., after the state’s Department of Children and Family Services sent them a picture that appears to show their 4-year-old daughter duct-taped to a chair.
Steve Pirtle, police chief of Southaven, Miss., said an officer will face disciplinary action after the death of his partner, a 6-year-old dog named Gunner that the officer left for two hours in a police car with the windows up and the engine off.
Eddie Tipton, a former computer programmer for the Iowa office of the Multi-State Lottery Association, faces up to 25 years in prison when he’s sentenced this week after pleading guilty to netting more than $2 million by secretly installing software to fix lottery games across five states.