In the news

■ Maximilian Jaeger, a spokesman for the Tierpark Zoo in Berlin, said “we were very happy” when zookeepers discovered that a rare red panda has been born at the zoo, only a few months after its parents were taken to the German capital from India.

■ Couy Griffin, the founder of Cowboys for Trump, said a representative for President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign told him that it would be distancing itself from the New Mexico group’s activities after Griffin posted a video saying some Black athletes should “go back to Africa.”

■ Eric Payne, the police chief of Grand Rapids, Mich., said officer Phillip Reinink was suspended for two days without pay after an internal review that found he used unreasonable force when a protester was shot with a long-range tear gas canister at close range during a confrontation with officers.

■ Roger Parrott, the president of Belhaven University in Jackson, Miss., in a news release announcing that the school will offer full-tuition scholarships for people to earn graduate degrees online, said the offer is “our way of helping our students push through these hard adjustments” during the pandemic.

■ Sam Mwandha, the executive director of the Uganda Wildlife Authority, said the 11-year prison sentence of a man convicted of killing a mountain gorilla known as Rafiki “should serve as an example to other people who kill wildlife.” m Robert Dominguez, the police chief in Mission, Texas, said Sullivan City Commissioner Gabriel Salinas was fatally shot in an exchange of gunfire with officers who were responding to a domestic disturbance call at Salinas’ home.

■ Max Privorozki, the head of the Jewish community in Halle, Germany, said the bullet-hole-ridden door of a synagogue that held firm in a botched attack on Yom Kippur last year has been replaced and will be used as part of a memorial.

■ Michael Molinari, 27, of Overland, Mo., was charged in a warrant with first-degree murder and other counts in the shooting death of an acquaintance while the two were in a storage unit, an incident that police say was recorded on three surveillance videos.

■ Leonard Patty, 38, a Texas man, was indicted on a second-degree murder charge in the fatal shooting of a 33-year-old man after an argument between the two in New Orleans’ French Quarter, according to the district attorney’s office.