Colorado Lawmakers Ousted in Recall Vote Over Gun Law  —  COLORADO SPRINGS — Two Colorado Democrats who provided crucial support for a package of state gun laws were voted out of office on Tuesday in special elections seen as a test of whether swing-state voters would accept gun restrictions …

De Blasio First in Mayoral Primary; Unclear if He Avoids a Runoff  —  Bill de Blasio, whose campaign for mayor of New York tapped into a city's deepening unease with income inequality and aggressive police practices, captured far more votes than any of his rivals in the Democratic primary on Tuesday, according to exit poll results.

Colorado state senators recalled over gun control support  —  FILE: This image shows Colorado Democratic State Senate President John Morse, left, and state Sen. Angela Giron, D-Pueblo.AP  —  Two Democratic lawmakers in Colorado, including the president of the state senate …

Stringer Defeats Spitzer in Comptroller Primary  —  Eliot Spitzer lost a bid for political redemption on Tuesday as he was defeated in the Democratic primary for New York City comptroller by the current Manhattan borough president, Scott M. Stringer.  With 97 percent of the precincts reporting …

Obama's Zig vs. Zag  —  Two weeks of zig-zag foreign policy by President Barack Obama — marching to war one moment, clinging desperately to diplomacy the next — culminated Tuesday night, appropriately enough, in a zig-zag address to the nation that did little to clarify what will come next …

The President Makes The Case  —  That was one of the clearest, simplest and most moving presidential speeches to the nation I can imagine.  It explained and it argued, point after point.  Everything the president said extemporaneously at the post-G20 presser was touched on, made terser, more elegant and more persuasive.