Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin is ordering the National Guard in her state to deny benefits to same-gender partners, contrary to a Pentagon order. British cosmologist Stephen Hawking, whose wife once had the option of turning off his life support, says he supports assisted suicide as long as it’s truly the wish of the terminally ill patient.

A homeless man in Boston finds a backpack containing more than $42,000 in cash and traveler’s checks, so he flags down a police car and turns the pack in. Impressed people have raised more than $45,000 to help find Glen James an apartment and a job.