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President Emmanuel Macron of France remembered the late Simone Veil, a Holocaust survivor and French politician, as someone who “lived through the worst of the 20th century and yet fought to make it better,” at the ceremony to inter her in the Pantheon, an honor reserved for French heroes.
Joseph Coutts became only the second cardinal from Pakistan’s tiny Christian community — after Cardinal Joseph Cordero, who died in 1994 — as one of 14 new cardinals appointed by Pope Francis.
Stephanie Sebby-Strempel of Summerville, S.C., faces assault charges, according to police, after she confronted a black 15-year-old and his friends at a neighborhood pool, telling them “they did not belong and they had to leave” and hitting the boy, then resisting officers when they tried to arrest her, biting one in the arm.
Curtis Lee Wyatt of Raccoon, Ky., was sentenced to seven months in jail for helping Eric Conn, a lawyer he worked for who had pleaded guilty in a $500 million Social Security fraud scheme, to flee the country by testing security at the Mexican border, buying Conn a pickup, and setting up a bank account for him.
Reginald Fields, the 12-year-old owner of Mr. Reggie’s Lawn Cutting Service in Ohio, said he is getting 15 to 20 calls per week, up from just four or five before a customer posted a video of an encounter Fields had with police when the customer’s neighbor called to complain about Fields mowing past the property line.
Kayla Rahn, 30, who said she used to joke that she was going to name her baby Taco Bell when people asked if she was pregnant, is on the mend after surgeons at Jackson Hospital in Montgomery, Ala., removed a 50-pound ovarian cyst.
Colin Martin was sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in a cross-border drug-shipping empire, in which the Canadian leased helicopters to smuggle thousands of pounds of marijuana into the U.S., dropping their shipments off in forest clearings in Washington and Idaho and picking up cocaine to take back into Canada.
Gilbert “Toby” Curtsinger, who had been sentenced to 15 years in prison as the ringleader of an operation that stole tens of thousands of dollars of bourbon from Kentucky distilleries, was set to be released after a judge approved a defense request for shock probation, with a prosecutor agreeing in order to free up jail space for violent offenders.