In the news
Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s prime minister, made her first public appearance since giving birth, announcing as she left the hospital that she and her partner decided to name their baby girl Neve, which means “snow,” in part because she was born on the Southern Hemisphere’s winter solstice.
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., had to skip hugs from her constituents after, she said, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., cracked one of her ribs while giving her the Heimlich maneuver when she choked during a Democratic caucus luncheon.
Erin Austin of San Francisco and her daughter Jordan, 8, got some help paying for a trip to Disneyland, after Austin lost her job and Jordan tried to raise money by selling bottled water — only to have a neighbor threaten to call police in an interaction that Austin recorded and that went viral, prompting a supporter to buy them tickets.
Elias Dray, a rabbi from Amberg, Germany, paired up with Imam Ender Cetin for a tandem bike ride around Berlin, accompanied by more than 20 other Jews and Muslims on tandem bicycles, to protest anti-Semitism and attacks on Muslims in Germany.
Andres Castaneda, 19, was charged with felony defacing of a church or school, police said, for his role in spray-painting two historic missions in San Antonio with “I don’t care. Do you?” a version of the writing on first lady Melania Trump’s jacket as she boarded a plane to visit detained children.
John Kovach was fired from the Lorain, Ohio, Police Department and is being investigated by the local district attorney after an internal investigation found he violated department rules and abused his authority when he pulled over and threatened to arrest his daughter’s boyfriend.
Leslie Kelly of Chapmanville, W.Va., faces charges including attempted murder, police said, after he tried to drown his wife and children in a bathtub, claiming that he was baptizing them and that God told him to do it.
Erron Coleman, 27, was sentenced to life in prison for the fatal shooting of 20-yearold Daniel Eugene Rowe during a robbery while Rowe was taking out the trash behind a whiskey bar in Jacksonville Beach, Fla., a holdup that earned Coleman and his accomplice just $4.
Robert Kilday, 22, faces charges including motor vehicle manslaughter, with Massachusetts prosecutors saying he was drunk and on drugs while test-driving a truck when he slammed into another car, killing the driver.