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A deadly domestic shooting that claimed a police officer has shaken an Ohio community, the trial over Charlie Kirk's killing begins with prosecutors seeking the death penalty, and the Supreme Court has cleared the way for Texas to enforce a landmark app-store age verification law.

Plus, Cuba's power grid fails again, Microsoft cuts thousands of jobs, and Giannis officially starts a new NBA chapter.

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A break-in call in Rittman, Ohio spiraled into gunfire that left four people dead, including a responding police officer, a suspect, his former partner and her teenage daughter. Investigators arrived at what appeared to be a routine call and found a domestic tragedy already in progress.

The department has not released the officer's name pending family notification, and the sequence of shots remains under review. Small-town Ohio rarely sees casualty counts like this, and the shooting will renew questions about how quickly domestic disputes escalate when firearms are already in the room.

A preliminary hearing opened Monday in Provo, Utah, in the case against Tyler Robinson, charged with killing Charlie Kirk. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty, and Kirk's parents, widow Erika, and Donald Trump Jr. sat in the courtroom.

A former campus officer testified to finding an apparent sniper's perch on a rooftop near the shooting scene. Prosecutors plan to introduce 40 to 50 exhibits, including DNA evidence and autopsy findings, over the hearing's five days.

The Supreme Court declined to block a Texas law that requires Apple and Google to verify the ages of app store users, handing parents new authority over what their children download. The order is procedural — the merits fight continues in the lower courts — but the law is now live in the country's second-largest state.

Apple and Google have long argued that store-level age checks force them into identity-verification businesses they never wanted to run. The ruling gives cover to a wave of similar bills in Utah, Louisiana and beyond, and could reshape how every American downloads an app well before the justices rule on the merits.

Two days of rioting at Sri Lanka's Negombo Prison have left 26 dead, including seven guards, after rival gang factions clashed over a drug-trafficking dispute. Inmates seized weapons from the prison armoury on the second day before troops restored control.

An Israeli Border Police officer was filmed Sunday throwing a stun grenade into a car carrying Palestinian passengers at a checkpoint near Qalandiya. Israeli police suspended the officer and called the act outside standard procedure, opening a misconduct investigation.

A wildfire tearing through the Pyrénées-Orientales region has forced 10,000 people from their homes and prompted Tour de France organizers to ban spectators from stage three. Southern Europe's summer is again defined by smoke, evacuation orders and cycling calendars bending around the flames.

Student loan servicers have begun sending notices giving borrowers 90 days to leave the Biden-era SAVE plan and choose a new repayment option. Millions of borrowers who have been in interest-free forbearance now face a short window to pick a plan before payments resume.

Planned Parenthood and two smaller providers resumed billing Medicaid on Sunday after nearly a year of defunding under Trump's tax and policy law. Roughly 30 clinics closed during the cutoff, and some — including sites in Maine and Florida — won't reopen.

Rittman, Ohio, police sergeant Scott Ries was killed responding to a 911 call about gunshots and a break-in early Monday. Four other officers and a police dog were hurt in the exchange, and the suspect and two others also died.

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Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner said he will take time to "reflect" on his Maine campaign after a sexual assault accusation he called "false." He did not say whether he will remain in the race, throwing a competitive primary into limbo.

US Treasury yields edged lower to start the week as investors awaited fresh economic data and the FOMC's meeting minutes. Traders also weighed this week's NATO summit in Turkey, which added a geopolitical layer to the usual first-week-of-quarter positioning.

Microsoft is cutting about 4,800 jobs across its commercial business and Xbox unit, and plans to spin off four gaming studios as console revenue continues to shrink. The reorganization signals that Microsoft's post-Activision gaming empire is being trimmed back to its most profitable pieces.

Universities are leaning on AI-detection tools like GPTZero and Turnitin to catch cheating, but their accuracy varies wildly. One Stanford study found false-positive rates as high as 61% for essays written by non-native English speakers.

A Nature World View piece argues FIFA's World Cup hydration breaks are driven more by broadcast schedules than actual heat-stress science. Controlled tests found active cooling — ice towels and cold drinks — meaningfully cut core temperature, while passive breaks did nothing.

Researchers at Australia's QIMR Berghofer institute have identified more than 250 genes tied to melanoma risk in the world's largest study of mole genetics. The findings open the door to better screening tools and drug targets for a cancer that still kills tens of thousands each year.

Giannis Antetokounmpo's trade to the Miami Heat became official Monday, ending a 13-year run with the Bucks. He posted a farewell video thanking longtime announcer Jim Paschke and the city of Milwaukee.

Spain beat Portugal 1-0 in the World Cup round of 16 on a Mikel Merino stoppage-time winner in Dallas. Cristiano Ronaldo, who had called this his final tournament, watched his World Cup career end in the same moment.

No. 9 seed Linda Noskova beat American Madison Keys 6-4, 7-6(2) to reach her first Wimbledon quarterfinal. Jasmine Paolini and Marta Kostyuk also advanced, with Roger Federer watching Paolini's win from the Royal Box.

Buckingham Palace said Monday that Prince Harry will not stay at the palace during his upcoming UK visit, walking back an earlier statement from his own spokesperson. Royal aides now face a small communications crisis, and the mixed messaging has reopened questions about the family split.

Christopher Nolan's adaptation of Homer's epic held its world premiere in London, with stars including Zendaya and Matt Damon calling it his "magnum opus." The film arrives as the summer's most anticipated release and a test of whether audiences will still pay IMAX prices for a 3,000-year-old story.

Paramount+ greenlit a four-episode docuseries following Texas Tech football and coach Joey McGuire through what producers call a landscape-altering offseason. Skydance Sports is producing the series, part of a broader roundup that also includes Big Brother's newest celebrity panelist.

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What it is: A nationwide blackout hit Cuba on Monday, the third islandwide grid failure this year, halting public transit and pushing hospitals onto backup generators. Cuba's state Electric Union says it's still investigating the exact trigger. Tens of thousands of scheduled surgeries have already been postponed nationwide as hospitals ration what power remains.

The detail: Cuba generates only about 40% of the fuel it needs to keep its aging plants running, and the shortage has deepened since January, when Trump threatened tariffs on any country that ships oil to Havana. A Russian tanker delivered 730,000 barrels in the spring, but that supply ran dry by the end of April. President Miguel Díaz-Canel accused Washington of trying to incite unrest, calling US pressure a "genocidal energy blockade."

Why it matters: This is Cuba's third islandwide collapse in 2026 alone, following failures in March and May, and each one deepens an economic crisis already driving mass emigration. Ordinary Cubans are left rationing food, water, and now electricity all at once. Public patience is thinning, and blackouts of this scale have triggered street protests before.

What to watch: Cuban officials haven't said when full power will return, and hospitals are still leaning on limited backup generation. Watch whether Havana turns to Mexico or Venezuela for emergency fuel, the same stopgap used during the island's earlier collapses this year. A prolonged outage risks tipping a power crisis into open unrest.

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