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WASHINGTON (AP) — After nearly 30 years behind bars, spy Jonathan Pollard will be released from prison in November. Pollard, a former Navy intelligence analyst, was convicted of spying for Israel. Israelis have long campaigned for his freedom, and he's even been granted Israeli citizenship. The White House strongly denies that the release is in any way tied to the nuclear deal recently reached with Iran, or that it's intended as a concession to Israel.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia is expected on Wednesday to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution that would set up an international criminal court to prosecute those responsible for shooting down a Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine a year ago. The foreign ministers of the Netherlands, Australia and Ukraine will address what is likely to be an emotional meeting over the downing that killed all 298 people on the plane. Ukraine and the West suspect the plane was hit by a surface-to-air missile fired by Russian soldiers or Russia-backed separatist rebels. Russia denies that.
HEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) — Texas authorities have released several more hours of footage showing Sandra Bland during her three days in jail. They say they want to dispel rumors that Bland was dead before arriving at the jail. The 28-year-old woman was found dead in her cell July 13, three days after being arrested during a traffic stop. Authorities say Bland hanged herself with a garbage bag. Waller County Judge Trey Duhon says Bland was "alive and well" until she was found dead.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An Albuquerque firefighter has resigned from the city's dispatch center after telling a 911 caller who was trying to keep a gunshot victim alive to "deal with it yourself." In the recording, the panicked caller snaps at the dispatcher for repeatedly asking whether 17-year-old Jaydon Chavez-Silver is breathing. He was shot during a party on June 26. Dispatcher Matthew Sanchez responds that the caller can deal with it herself and adds, "I'm not gonna deal with this, OK?" Then he hangs up.
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Eight children have been injured, two critically, after a tree uprooted and fell onto them at a summer camp in Pasadena, California. A city fire spokeswoman says the 75-foot-tall, 75-year-old pine crashed without warning yesterday, just outside the Kidspace Children's Museum. Some parents rushed over and began pulling children free of the branches. The injured kids are from 6- to 8-years-old.
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