In the news
Pippa Middleton, 33, sister-in-law to the United Kingdom’s Prince William, tied the knot with hedgefund manager James Matthews, 41, at a ceremony Saturday attended by her royal relatives in the town of Englefield, west of London.
Callista Gingrich, the wife of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, was announced as President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.
Anderson Cooper, the CNN host who during a broadcast of his show criticized conservative pundit Jeffrey Lord for his support of Donald Trump by suggesting that even if the president “took a dump on his desk,” Lord would defend it, apologized on Twitter for the “crude sentence.”
Vanessa Bayer, the Saturday Night Live cast member known for impersonating Miley Cyrus and portraying Jacob the Bar Mitzvah Boy, announced she is leaving the show after seven years.
Burak Akbay, owner of the Sozcu newspaper in Turkey, which last week published a “Press Freedom Special Edition” of blank pages to protest recent arrests of Turkish journalists, faces a detention warrant, accused of committing crimes on behalf of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom the government blames for last summer’s coup attempt.
Jeremy Corbyn, whose opposition Labor Party has struggled in the polls ahead of the United Kingdom’s general election next month, criticized Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservatives as “nasty” for dropping a pledge to protect pension payments for the elderly.
Patricia Meservey, president of Massachusetts’ Salem State University, reported that the school’s Twitter account was hacked and filled with posts containing vulgar language attacking foreigners and blacks, and stressed that the now-deleted posts don’t reflect the school’s viewpoints.
Esther Begam, 88, of Plymouth, Minn., who was not yet a teenager in 1942 when Germany invaded her native Poland and was forced to end her schooling to work in a labor camp, was presented with a high school diploma from Plymouth’s Wayzata High School.
Tyler Machado, 11, who has lymphoma, thought he was headed to the doctor’s office but found himself on a flight to Cuba for a sixday excursion to meet his grandparents, the first trip arranged by the Make-AWish Foundation to the island country since former President Barack Obama lifted travel restrictions there.