News of the Day From Across the Nation, Nov. 15

The Department of Defense on Monday identified two soldiers who died Saturday from injuries inflicted by an improvised explosive device in Bagram, Afghanistan.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which it said was carried out by a suicide bomber inside the base.

The head of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington is calling on President-elect Donald Trump and his supporters “to separate themselves from acts of violence and hate” after a church in a Maryland suburb with a strong Latino population was vandalized with a racist message that mentions Trump.

The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops, meeting in Baltimore just days after Donald Trump was elected president, urged him Monday to adopt humane policies toward immigrants and refugees.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said serving people fleeing violence and conflict “is part of our identity as Catholics.”

San Diego police officers shot and killed an armed suspect who was holding a woman hostage, officials said Monday.

Chelsea Manning, the transgender soldier serving 35 years at a military prison in Leavenworth, Kan., for leaking classified information to WikiLeaks, is asking President Obama to commute her sentence to the 6½ years she has already served.

The Army Corps of Engineers on Monday said it has finished a review of the disputed Dakota Access pipeline but wants more study and tribal input before deciding whether to allow it to cross under a Missouri River reservoir in North Dakota.