LIAM STACK

A college student who came to the United States as an Iraqi refugee was removed from a Southwest Airlines flight in California earlier this month after another passenger became alarmed when she heard him speaking Arabic.

The comedian and daytime talk show host partnered with a Northern California-based producer of marijuana edibles to form a company that will offer products designed to alleviate menstrual pain, like cannabis-infused chocolate, tincture, cream and bath salt.

Shots rang out when a confrontation between biker gangs erupted Saturday at a motorcycle show in Denver, leaving one person dead and several others injured.

Two refugees from Iraq were arrested on terrorism-related charges on Thursday in California and Texas, where the governor called for an end to the resettlement of refugees from countries overrun by terrorist groups.

Al-Qaida’s branch in Somalia released a recruitment video Friday that contained footage of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump announcing his proposal to bar Muslims from entering the United States.

A Virginia school district closed its schools amid an angry backlash, including a possible “risk of harm to school officials,” over an assignment that asked high school students to copy a Muslim creed in Arabic calligraphy.

Jerry Stritzke, CEO of the sporting goods company REI, hosted a question-and-answer session on Reddit this week to discuss his decision to keep stores closed on Black Friday. But the event was transformed into a public airing of grievances by scores of angry employees.

Authorities say the officers opened fire while pursuing the boy’s father, who was driving an SUV in the central part of the state. The boy was a passenger in the front seat.

Many Chileans have long suspected foul play in the death of the poet Pablo Neruda, who died 12 days after the 1973 coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Now, the government of Chile has said it is “highly probable” that those suspicions are correct.

Fred D. Thompson, a former U.S. senator, actor and Republican presidential candidate, died on Sunday in Nashville. He was 73.

A shootout among members of several rival motorcycle gangs in a busy shopping plaza in the Central Texas city of Waco on Sunday left at least nine bikers dead and 18 others injured, creating chaos in a sprawling parking lot packed with afternoon shoppers, law enforcement officials said.