Chicago shooting person of interest left online trail of violent imagery  —  Robert “Bobby” E. Crimo III, the person of interest identified by police after Monday's shooting in a Chicago suburb left 6 dead and 38 hurt, left a long trail of tributes to mass shootings and public killings …

Health experts see rise in maternal mortality post-Roe … Each had “trigger” laws, or abortion bans that took effect in the immediate aftermath of the Supreme Court eliminating a federal right to the procedure.  — Maternal death rates in states with “trigger” laws are on average almost …

New Jan. 6 Trump documentary footage revealed  —  POLITICO has exclusively obtained a trailer for Alex Holder's “Unprecedented,” the British filmmaker's upcoming Discovery+ docuseries about the Trump family.  —  The two-minute-plus trailer was included among the hours of footage that Holder turned …

Confidence in U.S. Institutions Down; Average at New Low  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans are less confident in major U.S. institutions than they were a year ago, with significant declines for 11 of the 16 institutions tested and no improvements for any.  The largest declines in confidence …

Doug Mastriano's Election-Takeover Plan  —  Stop the Steal is only a pretense for seizing control.  —  By now, political junkies are familiar with the rucksack of election-denying baggage that Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano schleps around: He organized …

With pressures mounting, Biden thinks GOP will make his midterm case for him  —  Little is going President Joe Biden's way as the summer lull sets in before the crush of midterm elections.  —  Gas prices are up; his approval rating is down.  A conservative Supreme Court majority is hacking away …

WNBA star Brittney Griner makes direct appeal to President Biden for her freedom, asks in letter to 'please don't forget about me'  —  Brittney Griner made a direct appeal to President Joe Biden for her freedom Monday in a letter passed on through her representatives, writing, “I'm terrified I might be here forever.”

Abortion fight strains Democratic alliance with Gen Z  —  A debate is raging inside the Democratic Party about whether it's giving its base — especially those under 30, the generation that most strongly supports abortion rights — enough motivation to keep voting for the party …

Christian Nationalists Are Excited About What Comes Next  —  Ms. Stewart has reported on the religious right for more than a decade.  She is the author of “The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism.”  —  The shape of the Christian nationalist movement …

Despite rebukes, Trump's legal brigade is thriving  —  Juli Haller was part of Donald Trump's legal brigade in Michigan, filing a lawsuit alongside the ubiquitous Sidney Powell that claimed absentee vote counts were likely manipulated by a computer algorithm developed by allies of deceased Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez.

Officers Wounded, Masses Scatter After Shooting Near Parkway Concert  —  “I didn't hear the shots, but the cops were like, ‘Run, run, run,’” one woman told NBC10.  The police union released a photo that showed a bullet lodged in the cap of a police officer.  —  Lee esta historia en español aquí.

While consumers and travelers suffer, Buttigieg focuses on ‘racist’ roads  —  A gallon of gas is almost $5, hundreds of airline flights are being canceled every day, and a possible strike by West Coast port unions is threatening to make an already unreliable supply chain even worse.

Ron DeSantis has raised more than $100 million for his reelection bid.  Could he use that money in a presidential race?  —  (CNN)Few people noticed when the Federal Election Commission deadlocked last month over whether US Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida in 2020 had broken a law intended …

After invasion of Ukraine, a reckoning on Russian influence in Austria  —  VIENNA — “Polizei!” barked the officers who stormed a third-floor apartment in the Austrian capital, moving to intercept a thickset man standing near a kitchen nook.  The suspect — a long-serving official …