In the news
President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines told an audience in Pampanga province that “if it’s really your time, it doesn’t matter what you eat,” as he and other officials publicly feasted on grilled chicken, duck and eggs in an attempt to allay citizens’ fears about the country’s first large outbreak of bird flu.
Irma Rodriguez of Corpus Christi, Texas, gave birth to a healthy baby boy and decided to name him Harvey, after the storm that had dropped more than a foot of rain in the city by the time the baby was delivered.
Stephanie Marie Bridges, 32, was charged with embezzlement by trust and credit-card fraud after authorities in Biloxi, Miss., said she took an acquaintance’s car without permission and ran up about $10,000 on a credit card she found in the vehicle.
Alexandra Arroyo, an Ecuadorean judge, sentenced 20 crew members of a Chinese ship to jail time and levied a $5.9 million fine after Ecuador’s navy stopped the vessel and found 300 tons of frozen marine animals, including protected sharks, from the Galapagos Marine Reserve.
Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, D.C., condemned the conduct of two officers who are being investigated after a man’s home-security footage captured them dancing and questioning his sexuality as they responded to a burglary call.
Sawyer Fish, 10, who has a rare form of epilepsy, became a superhero with the help of police in Falmouth, Maine, and the Make-A-Wish Foundation, which outfitted him as the “Sonic Spider Boy” for an adventure in which he freed officers held hostage by an evil mime and rescued the mascot of an area baseball team.
Zachary Jurewicz, 24, and Eric Rawson, 26, face home-invasion and burglary charges after authorities said they stole a baseball bat from a Tolland, Conn., home and used it to break into another, where they took a laptop, a purse, alcohol and part of a wedding cake.
Patty Peters, a spokesman for the Columbus Zoo in Ohio, said an 8-year-old macaw named Milo appears to be in good health after he flew away from an open-air exhibit area and was recaptured days later near a golf club a few miles away.
Luis Macedo, 29, an Illinois man who was on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list in connection with the 2009 killing of a 15-year-old boy, has been arrested in Mexico, the bureau’s Chicago office announced.