In the news
■ Bobby Braun of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory called it a “Wright brothers moment” after the agency revealed that Ingenuity, the experimental Martian helicopter that will attempt the first powered, controlled flight on another planet, is carrying a postage-stampsize swatch of fabric from the 1903 Wright Flyer.
■ Kim Janey, 56, Boston’s City Council president, is now acting mayor, becoming the first female and first person of color to hold that position, succeeding Marty Walsh, who resigned to become President Joe Biden’s Labor secretary.
■ Prince Harry, the duke of Sussex, has joined the corporate world as the “chief impact officer” for the San Francisco-based employee coaching and mental health firm BetterUp Inc., saying he believes in the company’s mission of being proactive about mental health.
■ Robert Garcia, the mayor of Long Beach, Calif., said he has little doubt that it was an act of hate after the city’s rainbow lifeguard tower — painted by lifeguards in June in honor of LGBT Pride month — burned overnight.
■ Jakub Zulczyk, a Polish writer, is facing up to three years in prison for calling Andrzej Duda, the nation’s president, a “moron” on social media in violation of a law that makes it a crime to insult the head of state.
■ Greg Ingram, a spokesman for the Caswell County, N.C., sheriff’s office, said a female employee at the Burlington animal park was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after two young wolves bit her upper arms and right leg as she was performing routine duties.
■ Larry Harris, 66, of Wilcox, Ariz., is facing aggravated-assault and other charges after he forced a National Guard convoy transporting covid-19 vaccines off a road in west Texas and held 11 Guard members at gunpoint, telling police that he stopped the vehicles thinking a kidnapped woman and child were inside.
■ James Scott, 53, who lives in both Bryant, Ala., and Trenton, Ga., was sentenced to nearly a year in prison after pleading guilty to stealing timber, including 100-year-old live oak trees, at the Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park.
■ Greg Gianforte, the governor of Montana, who is a licensed hunter, received a warning from state wildlife officers for failing to take a trapper education course after he killed a radio-collared wolf caught in a trap near Yellowstone National Park.