In the news
■ Annalena Baerbock, the Green Party candidate for chancellor in Germany’s coming election, said Tubingen Mayor Boris Palmer has lost the party’s support and could face “expulsion proceedings” after using a racist slur in a social media post about a Black soccer player.
■ Gladys Berejiklian, the premier of New South Wales, Australia, said new lockdown restrictions in the Sydney area were triggered after a barbecue enthusiast went on a citywide search for grilling supplies while infected with the coronavirus.
■ Alex Villanueva, the sheriff of Los Angeles County, Calif., commended the “professionalism and patience” of a deputy after body camera footage showed a woman calling him a “murderer” and a “Mexican racist,” after he pulled her vehicle over because she was using her cellphone while driving.
■ Mike Nearman, a Republican state lawmaker from Independence, Ore., who is facing charges after authorities said he let people protesting coronavirus restrictions into the state’s Capitol, said on a conservative radio talk show that he is ill with covid-19.
■ Shyanne Singh, 26, of Scottsburg, Ind., is facing three felony counts of neglect of a dependent after investigators said her 4-year-old daughter nearly died from a lice infestation so severe that doctors had to give her multiple blood transfusions.
■ Paul Ryan, a former Catholic priest from Australia who was assigned to a parish and school in Virginia Beach, Va., in the late 1970s, has been charged in the sexual assault of a minor and is being extradited to Virginia from his native country, according to the state’s attorney general.
■ Brandon Ashley, 27, of Hayden, Ala., was extradited to Rome, Ga., where he and four other people are facing charges in the theft and killing of a farm animal in what authorities said was a “ritual sacrifice” during training for a white supremacist group.
■ Steven Allen, 45, of Independence, Mo., pleaded guilty to child pornography charges after investigators reported finding thousands of images and videos at his home showing infants and toddlers being sexually assaulted.
■ Jonathan York, a former corrections officer at a prison in Tiptonville, Tenn., was sentenced to two years in prison after he and five other officers pleaded guilty to using unlawful force against an inmate and attempting to cover up the beating, prosecutors said.