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Abiy Ahmed, the prime minister of landlocked Ethiopia, said his country has built up its ground and air defenses and now should use its deals with neighboring countries to start its own navy.
Alexander Gauland, the co-leader of the farright Alternative for Germany party, said that in the grand scheme of German history, the Nazi era was “just a speck of bird poop,” drawing swift condemnation from other politicians and people on social media.
Spencer Herron, who was 2016 Teacher of the Year at the Marietta, Ga., high school where he taught video production, faces felony charges in the sexual assault of three female students on campus.
Michael Downey, 61, was charged with filing a false report of a felony, and Michigan police say they’ll seek reimbursement for the time they spent investigating his claim that he was shot in the neck with an arrow, when he had actually fallen on it.
Jessica Patterson, 35, was already under investigation by child-welfare officials when she was jailed on a charge of endangering the welfare of a child after her 1-year-old daughter suffered a seizure and tested positive at a hospital for methamphetamine, said authorities in St. Charles, Mo.
John Phillips, a lawyer for the mother of Gregory Hill Jr., who was shot to death by sheriff’s deputies in St. Lucie County, Fla., said Hill’s family will receive only 4 cents in its wrongful-death suit because the jury determined that Hill was drunk and uncooperative in his confrontation with officers and was 99 percent to blame for his own death.
Maj. Jimmy Sanford with the Bay County, Fla., sheriff’s office is being credited for his quick thinking after he subdued a hammer-wielding suspect in a grocery store by grabbing two cans of baked beans off a shelf and throwing them at the man, hitting him in the back.
Edward Asberry of Hartford, Conn., faces charges including kidnapping after, police said, he jumped into a car that had been left running outside a fast-food restaurant and drove off, but he quickly abandoned the vehicle when the owner’s 11-yearold son, who was in the car, attacked him.
Kris Felicello, an assistant superintendent in Stony Point, N.Y., said the school district is considering ways to make homework more beneficial for students, after two fifth-graders started a petition to ban it.