• Robert Gates, the former defense secretary, told CBS News he worries there is a perception of the United States "disengaging" from global affairs and attributed that to the fact that the U.S. has ended or is withdrawing from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in which there is no clear American victory.
• Mikelia Seals, 18, who was a junior at a Georgia high school when her doctor ordered bed rest seven months into her pregnancy, says in a civil-rights complaint that she should have been allowed to complete her work from home.
• Robert Cerantonio, an Australian Islamic preacher suspected of links to terrorists, was deported by Philippine authorities on the basis of YouTube videos allegedly showing him advocating jihad and urging Muslims to support militants.
• Joe Biden, the vice president, said at the National Urban League conference in Cincinnati that more investment in infrastructure and job training is needed to increase economic opportunities in the nation's cities.
• Hugo Carvajal, the head of Venezuelan military intelligence under the late Hugo Chavez, was arrested in Aruba at the request of U.S. prosecutors pursuing drug-trafficking charges.
• Universal K. Allah, 37, a Milwaukee man whose stun gun was used in the theft of a $5 million Stradivarius violin, was sentenced to 3½ years in prison.
• Ronald William Prestage, 59, a South Carolina executive of the pork-and-poultry company Prestage Farms, was arrested after he tried to enter the Cannon House Office Building with a loaded handgun, said U.S. Capitol Police.
• Lou Bangert, general manager of Doc's Beach House in Bonita Beach, Fla., said he's never witnessed such a crime in the restaurant's 27-year history as when three college-aged men, two naked and one in underwear, broke in and stole 60 hamburgers.
• Dan Evans, 38, a former British tabloid reporter, was given a 10-month suspended sentence in London for his role in the long-running phone-hacking scandal that shook Rupert Murdoch's media empire.
• Joseph Carl, 48, of Gainesville, Fla., who police say had been drinking and got out of his pickup without putting it in park to bang on another driver's window after a fender bender, was treated for hand and foot fractures after being run over by his own truck.
A Section on 07/25/2014