WASHINGTON—The leader of Nigeria’s 80 million Christians traveled to Washington this week and called on the United States to intervene on behalf of persecuted believers in his embattled country. 

Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), met with lawmakers on Capitol Hill Thursday morning before holding a midday press conference to decry the largely unchecked violence in Africa’s most populous country. 

Shower much? Edward Snowden has received documents allowing him to leave the Moscow airport, according to his lawyer, but it’s unclear whether he will remain in Russia or move on to another country offering asylum.

In the ongoing NSA controversy, ProPublica (not an unbiased outlet) discovered the agency has “antiquated” computers and can’t do email searches among its 30,000 employees.

Gina DiMartino’s summer plans in Rochester, N.Y., include reading, sketching, visiting a local pool, and waiting for the severely damaged nerves in her right leg to regrow from her knee to her toes.

It’s not how she imagined the summer.

DiMartino, 31, also didn’t envision sharing a room in her parents’ home with her 28-year-old brother, Peter, while he waits for his nearly severed Achilles tendon to mend. Like hundreds of others injured in the Boston bombing in April, a spring trip brought a summer season of coping with the aftermath of terrorism.

A federal grand jury indicted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, on 30 counts Thursday.

Charges, many of which carry the possibility of life in prison or the death penalty, include using a weapon of mass destruction and bombing a place of public use, resulting in death. The charges also cover the death of MIT police officer Sean Collier. According to authorities, the Tsarnaevs shot Collier to death in his cruiser a few days after the bombing.