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President Barack Obama, who owns homes in Washington, D.C., and Chicago’s Kenwood neighborhood and is registered to vote in Chicago, has been called for jury duty, the Cook County chief judge said, adding that the former president’s safety will be “uppermost in our minds” when he serves.
Michael Gove, the U.K. environment secretary, apologized “unreservedly” for making a “clumsy attempt at humor” when he said that being interviewed by a senior BBC radio presenter was like “going into Harvey Weinstein’s bedroom.”
King Maha Vajiralongkorn of Thailand led a royal merit-making ceremony in the throne hall at Bangkok’s Grand Palace for his father’s relics, part of a five-day funeral that caps a year of mourning for the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
Shane Kelchen — whose father, police officer Mitch Kelchen, died this year in a car crash while off duty — was given more than 10,000 officers’ business cards after other officers heard about someone at Shane’s school destroying his previous card collection.
Rebecca Bredow, 40, who spent five days in jail for violating a court order to have her son vaccinated, is asking a judge in Oakland County, Mich., to prevent any future vaccinations, which the boy’s father wants but she believes are too risky.
Javier Arellano Quinones of El Paso, Texas, was sentenced to life in prison after he was convicted of murder and interfering with child custody for shooting his ex-son-in-law, who had just won custody of Quinones’ 2-year-old granddaughter.
Crystal Gorman, 30, faces grand theft and 19 counts of dealing in stolen property, accused by Volusia County, Fla., sheriff’s officials of stealing 47 guns from her father, who recently moved to a rehabilitation center after a stroke and asked family members to check on his home after a recent hurricane.
Lisa Rung won’t have to pay damages to a man she called a white supremacist on Facebook after she saw that his vehicle had bumper stickers promoting the Confederacy and a Southern nationalist group, a Tennessee appeals court ruled, siding with her in a defamation suit filed by the man.
Ugur Tuksoy, a Turk working in Kosovo, was arrested and faces charges of belonging to a terror group after Turkey accused him of participating in the failed 2016 coup attempt there.