• Nguyen Thi Ngoc Thinh became Vietnam's first female president when the former vice president was appointed to fill the vacancy left by the death of Tran Dai Quang, and she will hold the office until the National Assembly elects a new leader.
• Leilani Johns, 9, applied and was accepted as a candidate for alderman in Farragut, Tenn., saying she will "bring a youthful perspective to the town," although state law would prevent her from filling the vacant seat if she is chosen by the mayor and other aldermen.
• Justin Schneider, 34, pleaded guilty to assault and was sentenced to two years in prison after, prosecutors said, he kidnapped a woman from a gas station in Alaska, choked her until she passed out and performed a lewd act over her unconscious body but, because one year was suspended and he got credit for time spent under house arrest, he will not spend any more time behind bars.
• Halle Newman, 17, one of the editors at Burlington High School's newspaper, said "I think I've learned more in the past week than I have in my entire life" after the school censored an article about an employee, then announced plans to revamp its media policy to comply with a new Vermont law that protects student journalists.
• Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., said six of his nine siblings "are related by blood to me but like leftists everywhere, they put political ideology before family. Stalin would be proud," after they urged voters to support his Democratic opponent, David Brill, in a television ad.
• Chance Kennen, 22, was in stable condition in a hospital, and his three passengers were in fair condition or were treated and released, authorities said, after Kennen drove an armored vehicle over the edge of a 25-foot cliff during a military training exercise in central Washington state.
• Jeff Dunn, Alabama's corrections commissioner, said he was inspired by a program in South Carolina to start a seminary program for inmates that has awarded its first class of 14 inmates with theological degrees, allowing them to assist future seminary classes or lead ministries in other prisons.
• The Rev. Paul Kalchik, who was facing anger from the LGBT community after he burned a rainbow banner, was removed as the head of Resurrection Catholic Church in the North Side of Chicago, with Cardinal Blase Cupich saying Kalchick needed "time away from the parish to receive pastoral support."
A Section on 09/24/2018