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▪ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 87, the U.S. Supreme Court justice, will be hospitalized for several days with a possible infection after undergoing a procedure to clean out a bile duct stent placed last year when she was treated for a cancerous tumor on her pancreas, a court statement said.

▪ Eric Greitens, the former governor of Missouri and an ex-Navy SEAL, interrupted his restaurant meal to rush to the scene of a double shooting near Saint Louis University, where he rendered first aid to one victim who later died from his wounds.

▪ Brian Oleksyk, a Michigan State Police lieutenant, said a sheriff’s deputy fatally shot a knife-wielding Grand Ledge man suspected of stabbing a 77-year-old man who had confronted him about not wearing a mask inside a convenience store.

▪ Jeff Landry, Louisiana’s Republican attorney general who has questioned restrictions on businesses and churches, has tested positive for the coronavirus, preventing him from attending events with Vice President Mike Pence in Baton Rouge, a spokesman said.

▪ Aaron Russell, 23, a San Diego County, Calif., sheriff’s deputy accused of shooting an unarmed, mentally ill man in the back as he ran from officers after escaping from a park ranger’s car, was charged with second-degree murder, prosecutors said.

▪ Bruce Pollard, 58, a Sturgeon, Mo., truck driver who pleaded guilty but mentally ill to reckless homicide, was sentenced to nine years in prison for causing a 2019 highway construction zone crash in Indianapolis that killed a woman and her twin daughters.

▪ Arthur Adams, 61, a Mississippi man sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison nine months ago after being convicted of running a $100 million Ponzi scheme, has asked a federal judge to let him serve his sentence in home confinement because of the coronavirus pandemic.

▪ Robert Courtney, 67, a former Kansas City, Mo., pharmacist serving a 30-year sentence for diluting tens of thousands of prescriptions for seriously ill patients to boost profits, is being released early because of the coronavirus, an attorney for the victims said.