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Jim McGrath, a spokesman for the Bush family, said former President George H.W. Bush, 92, will be in a Houston hospital for a few days while he recovers from a mild case of pneumonia.

Emily Sneff and Danielle Allen, Harvard University researchers, were reported by The Boston Globe to have found in a records office in southern England a second parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence, dated to the 1780s, believed to have belonged to a duke of Richmond known as the "Radical Duke" for his support of Americans during the Revolutionary War.

Kurt Hafner, 36, an Army staff sergeant at Fort Jackson, S.C., faces 24 counts of ill treatment of animals after Richland County sheriff's deputies found 24 animal carcasses, including those of a bearded dragon, two turtles, a variety of snakes and a dog, in Hafner's abandoned apartment.

Thomas Pesquet, a French astronaut on board the International Space Station, said he was proud to take part in an operation to dock a supply ship bearing the name of the late astronaut and former U.S. Sen. John Glenn.

Dante Harris, 21, was suspended by the University of North Georgia after he took a photo of an instructor at a urinal, with his underwear pulled down below his buttocks, then sent the photo to friends who shared it on social media.

Cathy Willis Spraetz, an executive at Chimp Haven, a Louisiana sanctuary, said a chimpanzee named Candy, which lived for about 50 years in the Dixie Landin' amusement park and was the focus of animal-welfare lawsuits, has died.

Jenna Wingate, a caregiver for a prematurely born hippo at the Cincinnati Zoo, said baby Fiona "has brought everyone together" after months of backlash over the zoo's fatal shooting of Harambe the gorilla.

Shaynna Lauren Sims was found guilty of burglary and other charges, for which a jury advised a prison sentence of about 16 years, in the mutilation of the corpse of her boyfriend's ex-girlfriend, in which Sims cut away body parts, stole the corpse's shoes and slashed its face.

Isabella Nicola, a fifth-grader in Fairfax County, Va., who was born with no left hand and a severely abbreviated forearm, said she's "very blessed" after some bioengineering students at George Mason University built her a prosthetic, using a 3-D printer, that allows her to now play the violin.

A Section on 04/23/2017

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