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■ Ahmed Ogwell, the acting director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, wrote on Twitter that he will “stay away from non-friendly territorie­s” and claimed he was mistreated by “immigratio­n personnel” at Frankfurt Airport in Germany.

■ Keith Ingersoll, a former associate of Seminole County, Fla., Tax Collector Joel Greenberg, pleaded guilty to several federal wire fraud charges in a real estate scheme prosecutor­s say defrauded an investor of millions of dollars, according to documents.

■ David Perdue, former Republican U.S. senator, donated $1.3 million of his remaining federal campaign account to pro-GOP groups, including $100,000 to Georgians First Leadership Committee that backs ex-rival Gov. Brian Kemp.

■ Anna Holland, 20, and Phoebe Plummer, 21, pleaded innocent to criminally damaging the frame of Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” painting with Heinz tomato soup during Just Stop Oil’s climate protest at the National Gallery in London.

■ Marc Tessier-Lavigne, president of Stanford University, said part of the school’s history is “ugly … saddening and deeply troubling” as he apologized after a task force determined that Stanford limited the admission of Jewish students in the 1950s.

■ Arthur Cofield, who is serving a 14-year sentence for armed robbery at a Georgia state prison, pleaded innocent to several federal counts after prosecutor­s claim he used a contraband cellphone to impersonat­e a billionair­e and steal $11 million in American Eagle gold coins, according to court documents.

■ Lee Zeldin, a U.S. House member and Republican candidate for New York governor, said a bullet from a drive-by shooting in which two 17-yearold boys were wounded was “found 30 feet” from his Shirley, N.Y., kitchen.

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