Domestic
The U.S. Treasury Department gave licenses to Boeing and the engine maker General Electric to export parts for aircraft to Iran under relaxed sanctions. (Reuters)
Maryland raised the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, the second state to make such changes since Connecticut set the precedent last month. (New York Times)
Rhode Island and the U.S. Department of Justice have agreed on a court-ordered consent decree that will require changes to employment services of the mentally disabled. Such changes will include a minimum wage and regular workday hours and will cover 3,250 people in Rhode Island and 450,000 people across the country. (AP)
A U.S. congressman is raising questions about University of North Carolina’s fake class scandal and the NCAA’s failure to sanction the University during a 2012 academic fraud investigation. (CNN)
International
Mali’s government resigned and Moussa Mara, a town planning minister, will become prime minister. (Reuters)
Malta created a new program that offers citizenship for a price than can reach up to $1.57 million. (New York Times)
Troops from the Ukrainian Interior Ministry forced pro-Russian demonstrators from an administration building and arrested 70 protesters. (New York Times)
The Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa is continuing to spread—from Guinea’s tropical rain forests to the border of Liberia. (AP)
Prisoners in Uruguay will give medicinal marijuana to prisoners if a doctor says it will benefit their health. (AP)
The United States and China debated over Japan when the Chinese defense minister said that Beijing had “indisputable sovereignty” over a group of islands in a highly contested area of the East China Sea. (New York Times)