June 7, 2026 - Multiple People Shot in Toledo

A mass shooting near Toledo’s Old West End Fest left at least 12 people injured, including two critically, prompting the festival’s cancellation as police search for multiple suspects and appeal for witness videos to aid the investigation.

13abc (WTVG)

The Defense Intelligence Agency has quietly elevated Israel's counterintelligence threat level to "critical" amid Pentagon concerns that the U.S. ally is aggressively surveilling top officials to glean Trump administration deliberations on the war with Iran, according to current and former U.S. officials.

NBC News

Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S. leader of the global Catholic Church, told a journalist aboard his flight from Rome to Madrid on Saturday that he will be supporting the U.S. Men’s soccer team in the World Cup, while also offering support to Real Madrid over Barcelona during his week-long tour of Spain and the Canary Islands.

CNA

Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner said on MSNBC he cannot explain how a former girlfriend was describing his chest tattoo as a Nazi Totenkopf in August 2025 text messages, months before he claims he learned the symbol's meaning.

CNN

James "Weston" Higginbotham, a 20-year-old Auburn University engineering student who vanished late last month while visiting Japan with his family, was found dead in a mountainous area outside Kyoto by a volunteer search-and-rescue group, his mother announced on Facebook.

CBS News

Representative Nancy Mace says she has no regrets about backing the release of the Epstein files despite believing it cost her President Donald Trump’s endorsement, as she fights through controversies and a crowded South Carolina gubernatorial primary.

Politico

CNN and MS NOW’s coverage of the turmoil at CBS, featuring like-minded critics of Bari Weiss’s leadership, inadvertently reinforced Weiss’s argument that major media outlets suffer from an insular culture resistant to ideological diversity and reform.

Mediaite

As the U.S. prepares to co-host the biggest World Cup ever, with 48 teams and 104 games across three nations in 2026, soccer's popularity in the U.S. has reached unprecedented heights — a stark turn from the jeers that greeted the country's 1994 hosting bid.

The Wall Street Journal

The Bank of England’s decision to replace historical figures on UK banknotes with wildlife has sparked controversy after newly revealed research suggested icons such as Winston Churchill, Alan Turing and Jane Austen were viewed by some participants as divisive, elitist and insufficiently representative of modern Britain.

The Telegraph

An adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, told CNN that nuclear talks are deadlocked unless the U.S. unfreezes $24 billion in assets, while warning Tehran would widen any war across the Gulf, Red Sea and Mediterranean if Washington strikes again.

Stu Bykofsky