In the news
Jason Rezaian, 39, a Washington Post correspondent detained in Iran for more than 300 days, will face the second day of his closed espionage trial Monday, Iran’s semiofficial ISNA news agency reported.
John Kerry, the secretary of state, has begun physical therapy as he recovers from surgery on his broken leg, with his return to work in Washington remaining unclear.
Jeffrey Williams, 20, who is accused of shooting two St. Louis-area police officers during a protest in Ferguson, Mo., pleaded innocent to seven charges, including first-degree assault and armed criminal action.
Andy Coulson, 47, a former aide to U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron and onetime editor of the defunct News of the World, was acquitted of perjury by a Scottish judge midway through a trial in which he was accused of lying about whether he was aware that News of the World employees were involved in phone hacking.
Robert Douglas Nicholson, Canada’s new foreign minister, arrived in Israel to demonstrate what he calls his country’s “unwavering support” for the Jewish state, which faces increasing international criticism over its policies and deadlocked peace talks with the Palestinians.
Shaynna Sims, accused of slashing the corpse of her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend at a funeral home, will undergo a psychiatric evaluation and return to court next month, a Tulsa County, Okla., judge said.
Doug Hughes, a Florida U.S. Postal Service worker who sought to call attention to campaign-spending concerns by landing his gyrocopter, which carried a Postal Service logo, on the U.S. Capitol grounds, said his employer is taking steps to fire him for “unacceptable conduct.”
Stuart Lynn Dunn, who was sentenced to a mental-health facility for stalking actress Mila Kunis, was recaptured in Santa Monica, Calif., four days after he escaped from the institution, sheriff’s officials said.
Eric Johnson, a Lafayette, La., rapper convicted of the rare charge of inciting a riot with death after provoking an act of revenge, received a 16-year sentence in the 2012 fatal shooting of a 43-year-old man, although he didn’t pull the trigger.
Marc Wabafiyebazu, 15, the son of Canadian Consul General to Miami Roxanne Dube, is a flight risk and will be held in jail until his trial in a Florida drug-related shootout, a judge ruled.