President Barack Obama signed a presidential memorandum ordering the Labor Department to revise federal rules on overtime pay to make millions more eligible for extra pay when they work more than 40 hours a week.

Pope Francis marked his one-year anniversary Thursday with a simple tweet: “Please pray for me.”

Bruce Davis, 71, a former Charles Manson follower in prison for nearly 43 years for the 1969 murders of musician Gary Hinman and stuntman and ranch hand Donald “Shorty” Shea, was again approved for parole by a California board but still needs the OK of Gov. Jerry Brown, who last chose to keep Davis in prison under the same circumstances.

Navi Pillay, the U.N. human-rights chief, said Nigeria’s new anti-gay law may have “negative consequences” for public health; could hinder government, civil and religious groups from delivering HIV education and preventive care; and could deter gay and transgender people from seeking services.

Sherry West, 54, a former medical technician at Dr. Kermit Gosnell’s Philadelphia abortion clinic, was sentenced to five to 10 years in prison for her role in the 2009 overdose death of a patient, Karnamaya Mongar, 41.

Steve Beshear, the Democratic governor of Kentucky, said the state has hired a private law firm to represent him in appealing a judge’s order for Kentucky to recognize same-sex marriages from other states or countries.

David Jolly, 41, the Republican winner of a Florida special election to fill the U.S. House seat held by Republican C.W. Bill Young, who died in October, was administered the oath of office by Speaker John Boehner and became the House’s newest congressman.

Susan Archambault, an upstate New York woman who put her daughter’s $882 income-tax refund into a mailbox by mistake, got the money back thanks to post office officials, who found the money at a distribution center and mailed it back to her.

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, issued Pope Francis, who is considering a visit to the U.S. in 2015, an open invitation to speak to Congress “and the millions of citizens of the United States we serve.”

Calvin Taylor, 41, a suburban St. Louis man who testified that he was influenced by “Satan’s demons,” was convicted of killing his brother, Paul Taylor, 48, after an argument over dirty dishes.

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