• Jay Carney gave his final briefing to reporters as the presidential press secretary, concluding a 3½-year run at the White House, and entered the briefing room to the music of Guided by Voices, his favorite indie rock band.

• Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, tried her hand at decryption by unscrambling a Morse code message as she opened a museum at Bletchley Park, Britain's famed World War II deciphering center.

• Michael Jace, an actor who played a police officer on The Shield TV series, pleaded innocent to murder in Los Angeles in the death of his wife, April Jace, and was ordered to stay away from his two young sons if he is eventually released on $2 million bond.

• Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, a Guantanamo prisoner accused of being an al-Qaida military commander, was arraigned by a military judge on five war-crimes charges, largely for purportedly organizing attacks on U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan and faces up to life in prison.

• Callie Granade, a federal judge in Alabama, tossed out a legal claim by Catholic broadcaster Eternal Word Television Network that requiring employers to include contraception in health care coverage is unconstitutional.

• Joe Morris, a Houston-area veteran who served two tours in Iraq with the Marines, is trying to convince the Department of Veterans Affairs that he is not dead despite being classified as deceased as of April 1, after receiving a service-related disability check for seven years.

• Pope Francis will beatify 124 Korean martyrs and celebrate a Mass of peace and reconciliation on the war-divided peninsula during his August visit to South Korea, the first papal trip to the Far East in nearly 20 years, the Vatican said.

• Dennis Kneier resigned as mayor of the wealthy Los Angeles suburb of San Marino in the wake of an outcry after he flung dog waste onto a political opponent's property.

• Randall Charlton III and Melissa Becker, both of Centerville, Pa., were ordered to stand trial on accusations they tattooed a smiley face and the word "b****" on a 12-year-old girl who spent the night at their home.

• Douglas Odolecki says police in Parma, Ohio, violated his First Amendment rights to free speech when they cited him for holding a sign warning motorists to turn if they wanted to avoid a drunken-driving checkpoint.

A Section on 06/19/2014