In the news

■ Gabrielle Giffords, the former Arizona congressman who was severely injured in a 2011 shooting, christened the Navy’s newest combat ship, the USS Gabrielle Giffords, in Galveston, Texas, asserting that the 421-foot-long, $475 million vessel will be “strong and tough, just like her crew.”

■ President Emmanuel Macron of France, commemorating the 1944 massacre of 642 villagers by a German SS division in Oradour-sur-Glane, called on his country’s youth to use past war atrocities as reason to fight against barbarities still occurring today in places not so far from home.

■ Reza Aslan will not be returning to CNN with a second season of his religion series Believer, the network announced, a week after the author took to Twitter to issue profanity-laced criticism of President Donald Trump’s tweets about the London terror attacks.

■ Norman Sharpless, 50, the director of the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been tapped by President Donald Trump to lead the National Cancer Institute.

■ Caroline Biden, niece of former Vice President Joe Biden, pleaded guilty to grand larceny and petty larceny for racking up a $110,000 tab on someone else’s credit card at a New York drugstore, and agreed to two years’ probation if she repays the money and does 10 days of community service.

■ Domingo Moreno, 27, of Parsippany, N.J., was charged with criminal mischief after police say they followed a trail of water left by a fire hydrant that became stuck to Moreno’s car when he hit it and fled.

■ Joseph Amico, 46, of Las Vegas, who is accused of threatening to kill lawyers representing Fox News employees in racial discrimination claims against the network, pleaded innocent to charges of aggravated harassment and making terrorist threats.

■ Cheryl Dyer, superintendent of Wall Township Public Schools, said she isn’t sure why two high school students’ yearbook photos were altered to remove references to Donald Trump on their shirts, noting that the school’s dress code doesn’t prevent students from expressing political views.

■ Ramon Perez, a Rhode Island legislator, called it a “mistake” after learning that handouts he distributed to fellow lawmakers as part of his pitch for a bill included a researcher friend’s screenshot of open Web browser tabs referring to pornographic material.