A 75-year-old American swimmer swam in the Seine River in central Paris on Thursday to celebrate Independence Day and raise awareness of the French government's efforts to clean up the river in preparation for the Olympic Games.

Two of the five individuals accused of plotting to bribe a juror in Minnesota with a bag of $120,000 cash in exchange for the defendants' acquittal in one of the country’s largest COVID-19-related fraud cases entered a not guilty plea on Wednesday.