NATION/WORLD BRIEFING Civil rights icon, Trump critic speak at Boston commencement

Cougar kills one mountain biker, injures another near Seattle

NORTH BEND, Wash. – Two friends on a morning mountain bike ride 30 miles east of Seattle were attacked by a cougar, killing one of the men and leaving the second hospitalized.

The cougar was later found up a tree near the dead man’s body, where agents for the state’s Fish and Wildlife police shot and killed it hours after the Saturday attack, the Seattle Times reported. Neither man’s name was immediately released. The injured man was in satisfactory condition at a hospital.

Pope to invest 14 new cardinals, some hailing from Iraq, Pakistan

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis on Sunday revealed his latest picks to be cardinals in the Catholic Church, including his chief aide for helping the poor in Rome and prelates based in Iraq and Pakistan, where Christians are a vulnerable minority.

“I am happy to announce that on June 29, I will hold a consistory to make 14 new cardinals,” Francis said in surprise remarks to pilgrims and tourists gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the pope’s weekly greetings from a Vatican palace window.

Eleven of the men tapped for the honor would be eligible to cast ballots in the secret conclave that would someday select Francis’ successor, assuming they don’t exceed the voting age limit of 80 by then.

BOSTON – A civil rights icon and a Caribbean politician who tangled with President Donald Trump offered Boston University graduates some choice words on America’s cultural rifts.

Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat, gave the university’s commencement address Sunday. Lewis was a leader in the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.

“We are one people, we are one family, we are one house, and we must never give up on our fellow human beings,” Lewis said. “We are not animals as some people suggest.”

Carmen Yulin Cruz, the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, spoke earlier in the day at the university’s baccalaureate ceremony and urged graduates to help others and speak up against injustice.

“They may try to shut you down, and they may try to shut you up,” she said. “But make no mistake, they will fail.”