Santa Clara, California - A company that can turn a park bench into a piano. A Copenhagen startup that lets children as young as age 3 create and share their own e-books. A woman-founded partnership that teaches teen girls to code through a social medium they love. These are just three of the first cohort of startups selected to take part in the Intel Education Accelerator.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - A Romanian fugitive wanted in his home country for fraud was deported after serving a sentence in federal prison in the United States for financial crimes. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) handed him over to Romanian authorities without incident Tuesday.

Washington, DC - On the three-year anniversary of the Mars landing of NASA’s Curiosity rover, NASA is unveiling two new online tools that open the mysterious terrain of the Red Planet to a new generation of explorers, inviting the public to help with its journey to Mars.

Los Angeles, California - A man linked to one of the most notorious organized crime rings in Israel and who on his own operated “a vast international criminal conspiracy engaged in drug trafficking and money laundering” was sentenced today to 384 months in federal prison.

Washington, DC - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources Heather Higginbottom will deliver remarks to Canadian Youth Ambassadors on Thursday, at 3:30 p.m. in the Delegates Lounge at the U.S. Department of State.

Newport Beach, California - Tayfun Karauzum, 45, of Newport Beach, California, has been sentenced in U.S. District Court in Providence, Rhode Island, to five years in federal prison for manufacturing, marketing and distributing for human consumption Potion 9, a product containing butanediol, an industrial solvent that rapidly metabolizes into gammahydroxybutyric acid (GHB) – commonly referred to as a “club drug” or “date rape drug.”