In the news

■ Chancelor Bennett, also known as Chance the Rapper, who earlier this year donated $1 million to Chicago Public Schools, announced that he has secured an additional $1 million from the Chicago Bulls for his New Chance Arts and Literature Fund.

■ President Evo Morales of Bolivia underwent successful throat surgery in Cuba to remove a nodule from his vocal cords, according to a presidential adviser.

■ Steven Mnuchin, the treasury secretary and an executive producer of The Lego Batman Movie, said in a letter to the office of government ethics that he should not have jokingly urged parents to take their kids to the movie, writing that he understands “no employee may use his office for his own or others’ private gain.”

■ Tsvetan Atanasov, owner of the Retro Museum in Varna, Bulgaria, hosted a meeting of sorts between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, opening a shopping mall display featuring wax figures of the two presidents standing together.

■ Jose Aguilar, son of Mexican mariachi star Pepe Aguilar, was arrested at the Tijuana-San Ysidro port of entry in San Diego after inspectors found four Chinese nationals in the trunk of his car, according to court documents.

■ Rashad Harold, 36, an admissions counselor at Delgado Community College in New Orleans, was arrested on one count of misdemeanor sexual battery, accused of requesting sexual favors from a female student in return for reducing her tuition.

■ Nongongoma Majova-Seane, principal at Stanton College Preparatory School in Jacksonville, Fla., apologized in a message to parents for posters at the school that show what kinds of dresses would and wouldn’t be allowed at prom, and said students won’t be banned from the dance because of their clothing.

■ Kevin Lipton and John Albanese, two coin dealers, jointly purchased a rare 1804 silver dollar at auction for $3.29 million, among the most expensive coins ever purchased, with Lipton saying in a statement that he was “stunned at this kind of opportunity to acquire it for less than $3.3 million.”

■ John Grant, whose family lost a 1919 Norman Rockwell painting known as Taking a Break during a 1976 burglary of their home, reported that the piece has been found and that he was able to identify it based on a story his father told of accidentally poking a hole in the canvas with a pool cue.