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Malia Obama, 15, the oldest daughter of President Barack Obama, attended her first prom, her father revealed during an interview on Live! With Kelly and Michael, not saying whether she had a date or went with friends.

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder and CEO, is pledging $120 million to improve education in underserved communities in the San Francisco area over the next five years, according to an op-ed published in the San Jose Mercury News.

Gary Dudek, 54, of Wallingford, Pa., a medical-company sales representative, was charged with theft, receiving stolen property and tampering with records, accused of stealing more than $350,000 worth of human skin over a period of several years.

Sally Jewell, the interior secretary, said the National Park Service will begin installing markers at places of importance to the history of gay, bisexual and transgender Americans, making the announcement at New York City's Stonewall Inn, the scene of riots in June 1969 that are widely credited with starting the modern gay-rights movement.

Thomas J. Donohue, the head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, prescribed a heavier dose of the open market as the cure for communist-run Cuba's struggling economy in a speech at the University of Havana.

Marchell Mitchell, who faces a charge of corporal injury to a child, was fired from his job as a security officer at Oakland High School in California over allegations he repeatedly slapped a handcuffed student in a wheelchair who has cerebral palsy and dumped him onto the floor earlier this month.

Joe Cornell, 52, a Salvation Army worker in California, is being rewarded with $5,000 for his decision to return a bag containing $125,000 that fell from an armored truck in Fresno.

James Schook, 66, a former Catholic priest dying of cancer, was sentenced in Louisville, Ky., to 15 years in prison for sexually abusing a teenage boy at a church, with a judge saying it was time for the former clergyman to "face the consequences."

Gabriel Soza Ruedas Jr., 25, of Austin, Texas, was arrested on federal charges accusing him of aiming a laser pointer at an Austin police helicopter in February.

Mitt Romney returned to Iowa for the first time since he lost the presidential election in 2012, stumping for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joni Ernst.

A Section on 05/31/2014

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