JASPER, Ga. (AP) — There was a shooting Tuesday at a Department of Veterans Affairs clinic in a small town at the foot of the Blue Ridge mountains in Georgia, and the gunman was shot and killed, police said. A Veterans Affairs employee was taken by helicopter to a hospital after the gunfire Tuesday afternoon, […]
Venezuela defeated the United States 3-2 in the World Baseball Classic on Tuesday night. It was the country’s first championship in the international baseball tournament. Team USA was flat for most of the game, trailing 2-0 heading into the eighth inning. Bryce Harper then hit a two-run home run to tie the game, setting up […]
Evanston Mayor Daniel Bliss defeated two strong competitors in the Democratic primary to replace longtime Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) in Illinois’s 9th District on Tuesday night. The Associated Press called the race for Bliss at 10:36 p.m., over two hours after the polls closed. Bliss won with 29.6% of the vote, with progressive Kat Abughazaleh […]
Nebraska‘s secretary of state booted a Democratic U.S. Senate candidate off the 2026 ballot after the state’s Republican Party argued the candidate did not intend to actually serve in the role. Democrat Cindy Burbank will no longer be in the running for the Senate seat, Secretary of State Bob Evnen, a Republican, confirmed to the […]
Illinois Democratic Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton defeated nine competitors to secure the Democratic nomination for Senate on Tuesday night, a win for Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) in a primary race that drew in millions of dollars in spending. The Associated Press called the race for Stratton at 10:38 p.m., over two hours after the polls […]
The International Atomic Energy Agency warned parties in the Iran war to use “maximum restraint” after Iranian officials reported a projectile hit a nuclear power plant on the Persian Gulf. “The IAEA has been informed by Iran that a projectile hit the premises of the Bushehr NPP on Tuesday evening. No damage to the plant […]
An Iranian airstrike on the Israeli city of Ramat Gan killed two people on Tuesday evening. “At the scene in Ramat Gan, medics and paramedics confirm the deaths of a man and a woman with severe shrapnel injuries,” Magen David Adom, Israeli emergency response services, said in a statement. Magen David Adom announced that the […]
A federal appeals court grilled the Justice Department on Tuesday as the DOJ asked the panel to reverse a lower court’s release of a foreign researcher, who the DOJ claims espoused praise for Hamas, from immigration detention. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit heard arguments in a case […]
Chief Justice John Roberts warned Tuesday that increasingly personal attacks against judges can be “quite dangerous.” Speaking at an event hosted by Rice University’s Baker Institute, Roberts, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, said criticism of court decisions is often warranted but warned it can cross a line when it becomes personal. “The […]
French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday that his country would not consider helping to secure the Strait of Hormuz from Iranian influence in the “current context.” The United States has pressed France and other NATO members to help facilitate the free flow of oil tankers and other vessels through the tiny, immensely strategic waterway leading […]
