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President Donald Trump called the last surviving member of the World War II-era Doolittle Raiders, 101-year-old Lt. Col. Dick Cole of Comfort, Texas, ahead of Independence Day to thank him for his service and wish him a full recovery from a recent fall.
Dan Flaherty, a Quincy, Mass., police sergeant, said a 5-year-old boy was in stable condition and did not appear to have broken any bones after falling from a seventh-story window when the screen the boy was leaning on popped out, adding that he landed in a bush, which cushioned his fall.
U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., urged continued close cooperation between the U.S. and Pakistan, saying it is essential for peace in the region and in Afghanistan, during a meeting in Islamabad with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Meghan Davidson, 26, was just seven days from her due date when a lightning strike to her head outside her home in Fort Myers, Fla., sent her to a hospital where doctors delivered her child.
Janet Yellen, 70, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, was hospitalized in London over the weekend for a urinary tract infection but has been discharged and has headed back to Washington, the Fed said, adding that she planned to resume her schedule for the week.
Mark Balfe-Taylor, who married Anna Balfe-Taylor in a marijuana grow house in Las Vegas, said his father’s imprisonment on a marijuana-related offense made pot issues personal for him and that the ceremony was meant to show support for new Nevada laws making the drug legal to buy for recreational use.
Derrion Demarco Gray of St. Louis was charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action, accused of dousing 34-yearold McAlister Presley with charcoal lighter fluid as he slept, then setting him on fire, prosecutors said.
Do Van Viet, an official in Do Son, Vietnam, said the killing of 46-year-old Dinh Xuan Huong by his own animal during a traditional water buffalo fight was the first human fatality since the fights resumed 27 years ago after being halted during the Vietnam War.
Dee Ann Haney, 54, a Texas City, Texas, city commissioner, faces two counts of intoxication manslaughter, accused of smoking marijuana, then driving her pickup onto the shoulder of a highway and striking and killing a father and son who were trying to secure items in their own truck.