April Miller and Karen Roberts, a Kentucky couple who sued Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis for refusing to issue them a marriage license, tied the knot in a ceremony attended by 125 friends and family members in Morehead, Ky.
Margaret Spellings, 57, the former U.S. secretary of education for President George W. Bush, was chosen as the next president of the University of North Carolina System.
Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon who is seeking the GOP presidential nomination, said on NBC’s Meet the Press that he would “love to see” Roe v. Wade overturned to ban abortion nationwide and that he “would not be in favor” of exceptions, even in cases of rape and incest.
Renato Usatii, mayor of Balti, Moldova, who is being investigated on suspicion of intercepting and publishing a telephone call between the country’s former prime minister and a businessman, was released from police custody after two days’ detention.
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, a Republican candidate for president, said on CNN’s State of the Union that President Barack Obama has encouraged “lawlessness” through his support of the Black Lives Matter movement, which the president has called a “legitimate issue” for discussion.
Sivoy Miklahook, 25, of Savoonga, Alaska, became stranded in the remote Chukotka region of eastern Russia, where he was visiting a friend, after his return flight was canceled, and is hoping to raise $4,000 on the Go Fund Me website for a chartered flight home before his 90-day visa expires in three weeks.
Christopher James Harp, 58, has been charged with defacing public land after police said they found his phone number among the lewd images spray-painted along a 100-yard stretch of rock, which caused damage to a prehistoric carving of a bighorn sheep in the Sequoia National Forest near Bakersfield, Calif.
Cole Donelson and his wife, Elizabeth, both 26, of Kansas City, Mo., quit their jobs to embark on a nationwide trip to all 59 national parks and plan to finish the trek at St. Louis’ Gateway Arch by August 2016, in honor of the National Park Service’s 100th anniversary.
Kristen Hewitt of Baltimore gave birth to identical triplets, Thomas III, Finnegan and Oliver, something her doctor, Victor Khouzami, said he hadn’t witnessed in more than three decades as a medical professional.