In the news
Young Lee, the co-founder of the popular frozen-yogurt chain Pinkberry, faces up to seven years in prison after being found guilty of beating a homeless man with a tire iron in 2011, after the man flashed a sexually graphic tattoo to Lee and his car’s passengers, who included Lee’s fiancee.
Gabriela Isler, the 25-year-old Miss Venezuela, was crowned Miss Universe in Moscow and received a congratulatory tweet from Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who called her title a “triumph” for the nation.
President Barack Obama took a break from Washington to play golf with former Miami Heat basketball star Alonzo Mourning and ex-U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk at Grande Oaks Golf Club in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the home of the 1980 comedy Caddyshack.
Alan Rusbridger, the editor of U.K. newspaper the Guardian, will testify in Parliament over his paper’s publication of files leaked by ex-National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, an announcement that came after Britain’s top three spy chiefs said al-Qaida and other terror groups were “rubbing their hands in glee” in the wake of Snowden’s leaks.
David Garland, an employee for the Johnson City, Tenn., Parks and Recreation Department, was charged with theft and official misconduct on accusations he let female prisoners smoke and get drunk while on work detail.
Pope Francis greeted some 600 people in wheelchairs one by one in a Vatican auditorium, lamenting society’s tendency to “hide physical fragility” and encouraging those with physical disabilities to banish any feelings of shame.
Victoria Hammah, Ghana’s deputy communications minister, has lost her job after a leaked recording was broadcast in which Hammah reportedly says she needs to make $1 million to be able to control people in politics.
James Brady, a homeless Hackensack, N.J., man who made headlines for turning in $850 he found on a sidewalk, has been denied city General Assistance and Medicaid benefits for failing to report that money as income, after he was ultimately awarded the cash when no one claimed it.
Robert Freeman, an 87-year-old World War II veteran from Tuskegee, Ala., has received the Congressional Gold Medal for his military service, which dates to the 1940s and included his induction as one of the nation’s first black Marines.