An evening that closed with peace on paper and ballots counted: the U.S. and Iran moved within a signature of a deal that would let Tehran sell oil again, while Georgia, Oklahoma and Alabama settled their primaries and a foiled plot to strike the White House surfaced in unsealed court papers.
Gov. Mike DeWine, who cosponsored Ohio's 1981 law reinstating capital punishment, called Tuesday for abolishing the death penalty, saying "the moral justification I had for voting for the death penalty simply no longer exists." The term-limited Republican noted fewer than a fifth of those sentenced to death in Ohio have been executed, with wait times exceeding two decades.
Unsealed court papers revealed that a 19-year-old Ohio man, Tycen Proper, told investigators he and online acquaintances planned to attack the White House with explosive-laden drones and rifles during weekend UFC matches. FBI Director Kash Patel said multiple people are in custody, though the documents suggested the group lacked explosives or drones to actually carry it out.
The AP projected Trump-endorsed Rep. Mike Collins as the Republican Senate nominee, defeating former football coach Derek Dooley. The self-described "MAGA warrior" will challenge incumbent Democrat Jon Ossoff in November for a seat central to Democratic hopes of retaking the Senate — Republicans haven't won a Georgia Senate race since 2016.
At the G7, Trump again lamented "the great antipathy" between Kyiv and Moscow and said Russia "should make a deal," calling the war's death toll "ridiculous." European leaders pressed him to host direct Zelenskyy-Putin talks in the U.S., with German sources claiming Trump now recognizes Russia is in a weaker position.
Republican Rep. Barry Moore fended off a primary challenger to claim his party's Senate nomination in Alabama, one of several Tuesday contests that broke for established Trump-aligned candidates.
Billionaire Rick Jackson captured the Republican nomination for Georgia governor in Tuesday's runoff, rounding out a night that saw Trump-backed and self-funded contenders advance across the Southern primary map.
A final draft of the U.S.-Iran agreement would give Tehran broad financial incentives, including the immediate right to sell oil, according to Bloomberg's reporting from Dubai. The deal marks a sharp turn toward sanctions relief as part of the emerging settlement.
Iran's foreign minister said fresh talks on nuclear arms and sanctions relief would begin Friday, immediately after an initial agreement is signed, as Trump expressed hope of putting the conflict behind him.
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson used a National Press Club address — briefly interrupted by a banner stunt — to brand multiculturalism a "failed policy," declaring "we cannot be a multicultural society" and singling out Muslim Australians. She credited events like the Bondi terror attack with One Nation's surging support.
The DOJ moved to dismiss an NAACP lawsuit accusing Elon Musk's xAI of illegally running dozens of natural gas turbines at a Mississippi facility powering its Colossus 2 data center in Memphis, arguing that blocking the related power project threatens national security.
A suspected Russian drone attack on a residential building in Ukraine injured at least seven people, a grim counterpoint to G7 talk of brokering an end to the war.
Defending champions Argentina opened their World Cup title defense with a 3-0 win over Algeria, powered by a Lionel Messi hat-trick.
The case that on-device LLMs have quietly crossed the line from toy to genuinely useful.
SpaceX's reported $60B move on Anysphere set off the day's loudest debate about who owns the AI coding stack.
Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive teardown of how a mechanical watch actually works, resurfacing for good reason.
Apple's Vehicle Motion Cues turn out to genuinely work for at least one chronically car-sick reviewer.
The privacy-focused Android fork is up on the latest base, with official releases said to be close.
Gergely Orosz dissects whether Meta's recent reorgs and stack-ranking are gutting its own engineering culture.
A pending change to Apple's email-relay feature could undercut the anonymity it was sold on.
On Bill Watterson walking away from merchandising millions to keep his strip whole.
Bash's built-in /dev/tcp pseudo-device can speak HTTP when curl isn't around.
The perennial argument that JWTs are the wrong default for session auth, back for another round.
A small defense of the rabbit holes engineers fall into when they should be doing the actual task.
A visual romp through what you can make once Perlin noise drives a flow field.
The Dutch state-backed effort to build an LLM it actually controls, data and all.
A security write-up that pokes at old IIS boxes and the legal line you cross doing it.
Alibaba's Qwen team extends its model family into robotics and embodied control.