In the news

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary-general, announced that the U.N., which employs 43,000 worldwide, is recognizing the gay marriages of all its staff members retroactive to June 26.

Doug Wright, a spokesman for Pink Floyd, said the band in October will release The Endless River, its first new album in two decades.

Wonzey Saffold, 30, and Bruce Wimbush, 18, were sentenced in an April mob attack on a motorist who accidentally struck a boy with his pickup in Detroit, with Wimbush receiving three years' probation and Saffold sentenced to six years and four months to 10 years in prison.

Dave Rexroth, a meteorologist at Detroit-area television station WXYZ-TV, lost sight in his left eye after a fireworks accident in Iowa and will undergo surgery that will begin the process of implanting a prosthetic eye.

Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany said during a news conference in Beijing that if reports that a German intelligence employee spied for the U.S. are proved true, it would be a "clear contradiction" of trust between the allies.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, in Paris for the publication of her book Hard Choices, said Europe and the United States must nurture their ties because "there is no more important force for progress, prosperity and peace than the trans-Atlantic alliance."

Sarah Palin was re-upped for a second season of her Sportsman Channel series, Amazing America.

Tiya Hudson, 13, was shot in the buttocks while sleeping when gunfire broke out outside her home in Winslow Township, N.J.

President Barack Obama signed a bill authorizing spending $564 million over five years for the U.S. intelligence community and expanding protections for whistle-blowers.

Darrick Pino, Fire Department inspector in Albuquerque, N.M., said a citation for illegal fireworks was given to a group of Buddhist monks watching a July Fourth fireworks show from the Hoi Phuoc Buddhist Temple.

Mary Fallin, the Republican governor of Oklahoma who is seeking re-election, and her husband, Wade Christensen, settled on Okie as the name for their new white Labrador retriever puppy after receiving hundreds of Facebook suggestions.

A Section on 07/08/2014