Senior U.S. military officials were subjected to polygraph tests as part of a leak investigation into classified information about weapons stockpiles. CBS News reported that no one failed questions aimed at identifying media leaks.
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Explosions at a Bolivian military facility storing pyrotechnic material killed at least 10 people, injured dozens and left seven missing, authorities said. Officials warned residents to stay away from the Viacha base because of the risk of another blast.
EU enlargement commissioner Marta Kos canceled a planned Serbia visit, condemning honors surrounding the return of convicted war criminal Ratko Mladić’s remains to Belgrade. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić rejected her criticism as Mladić’s funeral plans moved ahead.
A Massachusetts judge declared a mistrial in Lindsay Clancy’s murder case after jurors could not reach a unanimous verdict. Prosecutors have not said whether they will retry the former nurse accused of killing her three young children.
Jeffrey Mosteller, a former safety manager at Michigan’s Oxford Center, was sentenced to 19 months in prison after pleading no contest to involuntary manslaughter in the hyperbaric chamber death of 5-year-old Thomas Cooper. Three other former employees are awaiting trial, and the boy’s parents are seeking $100 million in a civil lawsuit.
Romanian prosecutors indicted Andrew Tate on charges of trafficking minors, sex with a minor and money laundering, while his brother Tristan was indicted for complicity. The brothers deny wrongdoing and are being held in Miami as they fight a U.K. extradition request.
A Labor Department inspector general report says former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer violated department policies, fostered a “toxic, intimidating and humiliating” workplace and misused government resources. Her attorney said she did not break any laws.
A Quezon City court ordered the arrest of Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte over alleged threats to have President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., his wife and a former House speaker killed. The case adds to an impeachment trial that could bar Duterte from a 2028 presidential bid.