In the news
Roy Moore, the Alabama chief justice who made national headlines recently for his efforts to block gay marriage, had no comment after his son Caleb Moore, 24, was arrested and charged with felony possession of a controlled substance and misdemeanor possession of marijuana.
Betty White, 93, will be honored with this year’s lifetime achievement award next month at the 42nd annual Daytime Emmy Awards, said the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Shanesha Taylor, a Phoenix woman who left her two young sons alone in a hot car during a job interview and whose tear-stained mug shot was seen widely on the Internet, pleaded guilty to a felony child abuse charge in a deal that lets her avoid jail time.
Gabby Giffords, the former U.S. representative who was injured in a 2011 mass shooting in Arizona, is to appear today in Connecticut to help promote the latest gun-control proposals offered since the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings.
Carlos Quezada Jr., 34, a Los Angeles police officer, and a female companion were arrested at San Diego’s Otay Mesa port of entry, accused of smuggling a Mexican man into the country in the trunk of an SUV.
Justin Moed, a Democratic state lawmaker in Indiana who’s the subject of an online report saying he sent nude photos of himself to a woman involved in a 2013 scandal with ex-New York congressman Anthony Weiner, referred to a “big lapse in personal judgment” but said at the Statehouse he doesn’t plan to resign.
Jose Espinoza, 23, who police in Central California say spray-painted his face black in an attempt to evade police after being caught with a stolen car, was booked into the Madera County jail.
Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany said in Berlin that her country’s goal remains to restore the Crimean Peninsula to Ukraine.
Ban Ki-moon, the U.N. secretary-general, urged the leaders of Japan, China and South Korea during a speech in Tokyo to work harder for reconciliation over their wartime past to ensure regional peace.
Carmen Aristegui, an award-winning Mexican journalist behind the exposure of numerous scandals involving the government and other holders of power, lost her popular daily radio show in a dispute with the station’s owners.