In the news

■ Thom Tillis, 60, Republican U.S. senator from North Carolina, said he will undergo surgery for prostate cancer after routine screenings during an annual physical detected the cancer relatively early, adding that he expects to make a full recovery.

■ Latunya Wright, 46, the owner of a tax preparation company in Houston, faces aggravated assault and other charges after being accused of pulling a gun on one customer and snatching the cellphone of another while they were at her office to complain about their tax filings.

■ David Ward, chief warrant officer 4 and native of Culleoka, Tenn., who joined the military in 1985 as an equipment and parts specialist, has been named the new command chief warrant officer of the Tennessee National Guard.

■ Khalid Abdel-Al, an Egyptian government official, said workers are assessing the structural integrity of adjacent buildings after search and rescue workers pulled a 6-month-old baby alive from the rubble of a collapsed apartment building in Cairo as the death toll rose to 25.

■ David Ott, coroner in Beaufort County, S.C., said a 4-year-old North Carolina boy on vacation with his family at a rental home on Hilton Head Island drowned after he fell into a pool where his body was found 10 to 15 minutes later.

■ Mike West, the coroner in Limestone County, Ala., said that a man and a woman died of multiple injuries after being struck by a northbound freight train as they walked on tracks near a crossing in downtown Athens.

■ Robert Cotton, 32, of Altadena, Calif., faces two murder counts after he was accused of stabbing his mother and uncle to death at a home the three shared in an attack that was witnessed by the woman’s co-workers during a Zoom call, prosecutors said.

■ Scott Avila, a veteran police sergeant in Chattanooga, Tenn., within three months of being eligible for retirement, was fired after an internal investigation into accusations that he pointed a gun at another driver during an off-duty road rage incident, authorities said.

■ Agnes Callamard,a French human-rights expert who led the United Nations’ investigations into the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, has been appointed the new leader of Amnesty International.