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President Emmanuel Macron of France called for the quick repair of World War II hero and President Gen. Charles de Gaulle's tomb in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, as police searched for two people who vandalized it.

Beata Szydlo, Poland's prime minister, attended the first Roman Catholic Mass that her older son celebrated as a priest a day after 25-year-old Tymoteusz Szydlo was ordained, going to the church in Przecieszyn where he was baptized as a child and saying she was "very happy and proud."

Jimmy Williams with the Fire Department in New Waverly, Texas, said a 3-year-old boy was alert and smiling after searchers found him in the Sam Houston National Forest, about 400 yards from a remote campsite where he'd wandered away 24 hours earlier as his family was setting up camp.

Donald Kalanick, the father of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, was hurt and his wife, Bonnie Kalanick, was killed after their boat hit a rock in Pine Flat Lake and sank, Fresno County, Calif., authorities said.

Matthew Malespina, 13, part of a group of eighth-graders from South Orange, N.J., who refused to have their picture taken with House Speaker Paul Ryan during a trip to Washington, said he refused because he disagreed with the policies the Republican and his party are pushing on health care.

Sreynuon Lunn, 32, who was born in a Thai refugee camp to Cambodian parents fleeing the Khmer Rouge and was allowed into the U.S. as a refugee, has been held since February as U.S. officials try to find a country to which they can deport him since neither Cambodia nor Thailand considers him a citizen.

Carl Carter, a spokesman for GWS Auctions, said the company is confident that the red-velvet interior of a 1962 Lockheed Jetstar, which the firm sold for $430,000 despite it having no engine, was designed by its former owner Elvis Presley.

Henry Peker of The Turtle Patrol, whose members are asking drivers to take care after they found at least two sea turtles dead from apparent vehicle strikes on Texas Gulf Coast beaches, said this is prime nesting time in a season that runs from early April through the middle of July.

Tom Catena, an American doctor who has spent years working in a war-ravaged region of Sudan, was awarded the Aurora Prize for humanitarianism, made up of $100,000 for Catena and $1 million for him to donate to organizations of his choice.

A Section on 05/29/2017

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