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39-year-old Devyani Khobragade, India's deputy consul general, was arrested after dropping off her daughter at school last Thursday and detained in New York on visa fraud charges, CNN reported. Khobragade was held in a cell with other females and strip-searched following her arrest, the U.S. Marshals Service said. She was soon freed on a $250,000 bond after pleading not guilty to the charges

The Mega Millions jackpot rose to $646 million on Monday night leading into Tuesday's night draw, as the winning tickets were sold in California and Georgia, according to FoxNews.com. Tuesday's draw represented the second largest in U.S. history, The Associated Press reported.

72-year-old Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortion doctor who was convicted of first-degree murder for killing babies that were born alive in his clinic, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for running a 'poll mill' out of the same clinic, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, as reported by CNN. Gosnell was found guilty in May.