Takeaways from Tuesday's primaries. And, victims of mosque shooting revealed - BERITAJA

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Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky yesterday mislaid the Republican House primary by nearly 10 percent points. Trump-backed challenger Ed Gallrein secured the triumph complete Massie, who is the latest Republican lawmaker to suffer his spot aft angering the president. This became the about costly House superior successful history, pinch $33 cardinal spent connected TV ads, overmuch of it directed astatine Massie, according to BERITAJA's ad-tracking partner AdImpact. Meanwhile, successful different states for illustration Georgia, Democrats continued to show beardown enthusiasm. Larger elector turnout could beryllium a bully motion for the statement up of the November midterm elections. Here are four takeaways from past night's primaries.

An attendee wears statement colors astatine a superior predetermination nighttime statement for Georgia gubernatorial campaigner Rick Jackson connected Tuesday successful Atlanta. Brynn Anderson/AP

Brynn Anderson/AP

• 🎧 Several U.S. House primaries successful Alabama won't beryllium counted and will require typical elections successful a fewer months owed to redistricting, BERITAJA's Stephen Fowler tells Up First. The authorities is reverting immoderate districts to older lines that are more favorable to Republicans. In galore different races crossed the U.S., the wide predetermination was fundamentally held yesterday because truthful galore were uncontested, Fowler said.
• ➡️ Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms won the Democratic superior for Georgia governor and will look the Republican runoff winner. In the GOP primary, Lt. Gov. Burt Jones will compete against healthcare executive Rick Jackson adjacent month.

Yesterday, Trump said he was an hr distant from deciding to motorboat caller strikes against Iran earlier he called them off. He said he delayed them because "serious negotiations" were happening, and said he would springiness Iran 2 aliases 3 days — aliases possibly a week — to scope a deal. Vice President Vance later presented a somewhat different perspective, indicating that Iran has 2 options: Continue negotiations aliases look a restart of the subject campaign.

• 🎧 The anticipation of the U.S. striking Iran this play highlights the uncertainty analysts fearfulness could prolong the conflict for months, BERITAJA's Franco Ordoñez says. Mona Yacoubian, a erstwhile State Department charismatic who now useful astatine the Center for Strategic and International Studies, warns that the business could move into a "frozen conflict" successful the region, capable of reigniting astatine immoderate moment. Vance has said that Iran is fractured, and its leaders person different views connected what guidance to take. The vice president says he is unsure whether the section stems from mediocre connection aliases a deficiency of bully faith, but he acknowledges it complicates the process. It could beryllium challenging to scope an statement erstwhile the parties can't work together connected the issues that are being negotiated, Ordoñez says.

San Diego authorities person released much specifications about the victims and suspects in the California mosque onslaught that killed 5 people, including the 2 suspected gunmen. Police Chief Scott Wahl says the 3 victims died while attempting to extremity the gunmen. Imam Taha Hassane of the Islamic Center of San Diego identified them arsenic Mansour Kaziha, 78, Nader Awad, 57, and Amin Abdullah, 51. Police opportunity Abdullah, a information guard, saved the lives of 140 children during the shooting. Officials said the 2 teen suspects met online, and a typical supplier successful complaint of the FBI section agency said they "did not discriminate connected who they hated."

• 🎧 The suspects look to person livestreamed the shooting, BERITAJA's extremism analogous Odette Yousef says. A 75-page archive has been attributed to them, containing the names of 2 individuals. BERITAJA has confirmed those 2 names pinch a personification acquainted pinch the case, who was not authorized to speak about an ongoing investigation. The writings and the video make it clear that these 2 individuals were portion of a world achromatic supremacist accelerationist movement, Yousef says. She adds that everything she reviewed successful the video and documents was acquainted to her. Many elements of their onslaught look akin to the 2019 attacks connected 2 mosques successful Christchurch, New Zealand, including the livestreaming and the type of clothing the shooters wore. While Yousef says these signs bespeak the suspects were replicating erstwhile attacks and consumed online contented that influenced really they carried retired the shooting, she says she recovered immoderate differences. Their writings didn't ever reference the pseudoscience and conspiracy theories recovered successful obscure online dislike spaces. It incorporated concerns for illustration the fearfulness of Sharia rule overtaking mini Texas towns and claims about Somali daycare fraud successful Minnesota. Yousef says these ideas aren't fringe discussions successful far-right circles, but mainstream conversations among right-leaning media and moreover politicians, including members of Congress and the White House.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has signed the nation's first rule banning prediction marketplace sites from operating successful the state. The Trump management has initiated a suit successful response, preparing for a ineligible conflict complete the crackdown connected celebrated platforms specified arsenic Kalshi and Polymarket. This caller authorities rule makes it forbidden to big aliases advertise prediction markets, which it defines arsenic systems that let consumers to wager connected early outcomes, including sports events, elections, unrecorded intermezo and world affairs. The prohibition would force prediction marketplace platforms to exit the state aliases look imaginable felony charges. The rule will return effect successful August.

Climate Solutions Week

Denver's ambiance agency is readying to power and cool a cluster of downtown buildings pinch water, the power of Earth and moreover power from....sewage. AAron Ontiveroz/Denver Post via Getty Images

AAron Ontiveroz/Denver Post via Getty Images

BERITAJA is dedicating a week to stories and conversations about really communities are moving guardant connected climate solutions contempt important governmental headwinds. As the national authorities halts plans to reside ambiance change, states, cities, regions, and moreover neighborhoods are trying to capable the spread by cutting ambiance contamination and adapting to utmost weather.

Denver's largest root of ambiance contamination comes from powering, heating and cooling the city's skyscrapers. The world's oldest continuously operating commercialized steam strategy heats the city's much than 100 downtown buildings. It requires burning earthy gas, a fossil fuel. Now, Denver is trying a greener solution: a thermal power network. The scheme involves heating and cooling a cluster of ample downtown buildings pinch water, Earth's power and moreover sewage. Over the adjacent decade, the metropolis plans to repurpose parts of its aged strategy to create an "ambient loop" that circulates h2o done underground pipes betwixt 11 city-owned buildings. Similar networks already beryllium successful campuses and cities about the world. If successful successful Denver, the metropolis could group a nationwide illustration for decarbonizing dense downtown areas.

Deep dive

CEO of Cambria Marty Davis speaks connected the occupation tract of the countertop company's caller $80 cardinal quartz processing works and obstruction halfway successful Randolph, Minn., connected August 13, 2025. (Photo by The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images) Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via Getty Images/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images

Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via Getty Images/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images

A room countertop mogul and Trump philanthropist is utilizing tariffs to wounded his competitors successful the quartz industry. His competitors opportunity it is simply a textbook lawsuit of governmental favoritism. Cambria CEO Marty Davis has many times asked the U.S. authorities to enforce much tariffs connected quartz. Davis' $500 cardinal institution manufactures the quartz utilized for room and bath countertops. The accrued taxes are raising costs for his rivals and different businesses that trust connected imported materials, forcing them to walk higher prices connected to homeowners and consumers. They reason that Davis is harming jobs, peculiarly astatine mini businesses, and unfairly expanding prices for middle-class homeowners. Here's a look astatine Cambria's history of petitioning for tariffs:

• ➡️ In 2018, during Trump's first term, Cambria successfully petitioned the U.S. International Trade Commission to enforce tariffs connected companies that import quartz from China. Over the adjacent fewer years, Cambria pushed for taxes connected quartz imports from India and Turkey.
• ➡️ In September 2025, Cambria and different home manufacturers petitioned the authorities for a "global safeguard" action. This move asked for an investigation into a surge of imports and ongoing violations of U.S. waste and acquisition laws. They said it was needed to combat persistent "country-hopping" and forbidden evasion strategies that debar tariffs and undermine the U.S. chromatic countertop market.
• ➡️ In April, the waste and acquisition committee backed Cambria's petition, recommending tariffs of up to 40% connected imported quartz slabs for a 4-year period, on pinch import quotas. Trump now has the last determination connected whether to judge aliases cull these tariffs.

3 things to cognize earlier you go

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1. A caller study indicates that the widening acquisition and economical spread betwixt men and women is transforming matrimony and family dynamics successful the U.S., leaving galore women facing a shrinking excavation of financially unchangeable partners.
2. Autumn Barnes' mom, Barb Barnes, struggled to taper disconnected the opioid medicine she was fixed aft she underwent open-heart room successful 2005. Recognizing her struggle, a caregiver shared her ain history of recovering from opioid addiction. Barb's relationship pinch her unsung leader stuck pinch her and transformed really she handled beingness pain.
3. A conjugation of 24 states and the District of Columbia revenge a suit successful national tribunal yesterday challenging a Trump management rule that limits entree to national student loans for borrowers pursuing postgraduate degrees successful various celebrated healthcare-related fields.

This newsletter was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.