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President Barack Obama, who in recent weeks has ducked out for excursions to a local Starbucks and to an Alexandria, Va., burger restaurant, made another fast-food run, this time with a few participants at a White House working families meeting for a short walk to a local Chipotle.

Kate Kelly, a Mormon who created the women's group Ordain Women and staged demonstrations in a push for women to join the faith's priesthood, was excommunicated from the church, the group said.

Ryan M. Pitts, a former Army staff sergeant from New Hampshire, will receive the Medal of Honor from President Barack Obama during a White House ceremony on July 21, becoming the ninth living recipient to be so honored for actions in Iraq or Afghanistan.

John Schindler, a U.S. Naval War College professor, was placed on leave after being accused in a complaint of taking a racy photo of a male genital organ that was then posted online.

William Gazafi, 44, of Lusby, Md., a former Air Force noncommissioned officer, was sentenced to 120 years in prison after pleading guilty to child exploitation charges for producing sexually explicit images of children.

Sean Patrick Maloney, 47, a Democrat who is New York's first openly gay member of Congress, exchanged vows with his longtime partner, Randy Gene Florke, 51, at a church in Cold Spring.

Emmanuel Camper, 28, was charged with petit theft, accused in Tampa, Fla., of running out of a convenience store after taking a beer without paying and while already intoxicated.

Dennis Herrera, San Francisco's city attorney, issued a cease-and-desist demand to a mobile app called Monkey Parking, which allows people to auction public parking spaces that they're using to other nearby drivers.

The Right Rev. Foley Beach, the bishop of the Anglican Church in North America's Diocese of the South, which includes 42 parishes in Arkansas and nine other Southern states, was named the new archbishop of the conservative church at a conclave near Latrobe, Pa.

Brandon Hill, spokesman for a fire department in Bakersfield, Calif., said two firefighters used vegetable oil to rescue a pit bull puppy, named Junior, who had gotten its head stuck through the hub of an automobile wheel.

A Section on 06/24/2014

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