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Betty Soskin, 94, who works as an interpretive ranger at the Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historic Park in Richmond, Calif., and is the country’s oldest fulltime park ranger, has been invited to light the National Christmas tree next week at the White House.

Prince Harry of the United Kingdom helped open the Mamohato Children’s Centre in Lesotho with the Sentebale charity, which he founded in 2006, naming the dining hall after his mother, Princess Diana, and the center’s welcome room after his former nanny, Olga Powell.

Ashraf Fayadh, a Palestinian artist sentenced to death last week in Saudi Arabia for apostasy, told Mecca Online that he is not an atheist and that his case is based on a personal dispute with a college student.

Jesus Delgado, 77, a vicar general with the Archdiocese of San Salvador, has been suspended by El Salvador’s Roman Catholic Church, which said Delgado has acknowledged sexually abusing a young girl more than 20 years ago.

Adam Arlington, 31, who was in police custody on a charge of disorderly conduct, suffered a serious head injury after he kicked out a window of a police transport van and jumped from the moving vehicle onto Interstate 10 near Phoenix.

Derek Medina, 33, a Florida man who killed his wife in 2013 and posted a photo of her body on Facebook, was convicted of second-degree murder and faces up to 25 years in prison.

Scott LeComte, 28, who is homeless, has been jailed in Altoona, Pa., on charges he stiffed a cabdriver on a $325 fare.

Gao Yu, 71, a Chinese journalist who had been imprisoned since last year on a conviction of revealing state secrets, was released for medical reasons after pleading guilty during an appeal hearing, according to state media.

Samantha Lockhart, 25, a former fiscal clerk for Summit County, Ohio, has been ordered to pay a $1,000 fine, complete 50 hours of community service and write an apology for trashing a co-worker’s office with glitter and purple Silly String after submitting her resignation notice.

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