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Indonesia and Australia have finalized a new bilateral defense treaty that will enhance the neighboring nations’ ability to operate their militaries in each other’s territory. Tuesday's agreement was reached after president-elect Prabowo Subianto, who also serves as Indonesia’s defense minister met with Australian officials at Parliament. The Indonesian president's overnight Canberra visit was his first to Australia since he was elected president in February. He is set to be inaugurated in October. The bilateral relationship is becoming increasingly important to Australians in face of growing tensions with China. New Australian prime ministers typically make Jakarta one of their first overseas destinations.

Illinois will soon become just the fifth state in the nation to prohibit corporal punishment in all schools. Legislation that Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law this month bans physical punishment in private schools while reiterating a prohibition on the practice in public schools, first implemented 30 years ago. The law takes effect in January. Illinois will join New Jersey, Iowa, Maryland and New York in prohibiting paddling, spanking or hitting in all its schools. Chicago Democratic Rep. Margaret Croke was inspired to take up the issue after the American Association of Pediatrics’ updated call to end the practice. Seventeen U.S. states allow some sort of corporal punishment in all schools.

Two bouts of flooding in July has hampered businesses and destinations in an economically depressed section of northeastern Vermont, with some still closed as they continue to repair damage and others urging visitors, who were deterred by the weather, to make the trip. Kingdom Trails, a popular destination for mountain bikers in Burke, draws tens of thousands of visitors a year. But the flooding that washed away roads and bridges and damaged homes and trails has deterred some visitors. Businesses and destinations in the region are picking up the pieces with some still closed in nearby Lyndonville as they continue with flood repairs, while others want to get the word out that they are very much open.

Alaska's primary election will set the stage for what's expected to be a hotly contested race that could help decide control of the U.S. House. Democratic U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola faces 11 challengers in Tuesday's primary, including Republicans Nick Begich and Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom. Dahlstrom is endorsed by former President Donald Trump. Under Alaska’s open primary system, the top four vote-getters advance to November’s ranked choice general election. Peltola, Begich and Dahlstrom are the only candidates to have reported raising any money.

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake shook parts of Pakistan and the Himalayan region of Kashmir early Tuesday, panicking residents. There were no immediate reports of damage, officials said. The epicenter of the quake was in southwestern Kashmir, a predominantly Muslim region that is divided between neighboring India and Pakistan, both of which claim it in its entirety. According to the National Seismic Monitoring Centre in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, the depth of the tremors was 20 kilometers. Shaking was felt across much of Pakistan, including Islamabad, some areas in the eastern Punjab northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces bordering Afghanistan. A magnitude 7.6 quake in 2005 killed thousands of people in Pakistan and Kashmir.

Barack Obama is returning to the Democratic National Convention stage two decades after his memorable debut. His job is different this time. In 2004, Obama was a young state senator from Illinois stumping for nominee John Kerry and introducing himself to the nation. That speech came months before his election to the U.S. Senate and catapulted him on a course to the presidency barely four years later. This time, Obama is the 63-year-old elder statesman eight years removed from serving two terms as the nation's first Black president. And he will be making the case for another historic figure: Vice President Kamala Harris. Democrats say they expect Obama to balance aggressive attacks on Republican Donald Trump while boosting Harris.

Israel wants lasting control over two strategic corridors in Gaza, which Hamas has long rejected. The dispute threatens to unravel cease-fire talks aimed at ending the war and freeing scores of hostages. Officials familiar with the negotiations say Israel wants a lasting military presence in a buffer zone along the Gaza-Egypt border and in an area Israeli forces carved out to cut off northern Gaza from the south. It’s unclear whether Israeli control over these areas is part of a proposal the U.S. has called on Hamas to accept to break the cease-fire impasse. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday that Israel had agreed to the proposal, without saying what it entails.

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The Democratic National Convention heads into its second day on Tuesday. Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama are returning to the city they once called home to take the stage in support of Vice President Kamala Harris’ nomination. The Obamas are expected to headline the convention’s second night, a day after the unofficial farewell for President Joe Biden, who served eight years as Obama’s vice president. Biden won’t be in the hall to see his former running mate speak, having departed Chicago after his own speech. According to convention organizers, the theme for Tuesday’s events is “a bold vision for America’s future,” a defined pivot toward a new generation for Democrats and their leadership.

New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez is slated to resign by the end of the day, about a month after a jury convicted him on federal bribery charges. Menendez signaled his resignation last month in a letter to Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy. The governor said Friday he’s tapping a former top aide to succeed the three-term incumbent. George Helmy will succeed Menendez until the November election results for the Senate seat are certified. At that point, Murphy says Helmy will resign and he’ll name the winner of the election to the seat.

Asian stocks are mostly rising after Wall Street pushed closer to record highs following its roller coasterof a summer. The Nikkei 225 index was up over 2%. U.S. futures were slightly higher while oil prices fell. The S&P 500 rose 1% Monday for its eighth-straight gain, its longest winning streak since November. It's back within 1% of its record set last month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.6%, and the Nasdaq composite added 1.4%. Treasury yields held steady ahead of a highly anticipated speech on Friday from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Almost everyone expects the Fed to cut rates at its next meeting in September. Powell could give hints on how many cuts will come and how quickly.

For tens of thousands of men in Uganda’s capital, driving a motorcycle taxi is a way to make a living. For others, the vehicles known as boda-bodas are an essential but menacing means of transport in a city of chaos. They are ubiquitous in East African capitals, but their numbers have been surging most dramatically in Kampala, which has 3 million people, no mass transit system and rampant unemployment. Boda-bodas take children to school, people to offices, the sick to clinics and even the dead to their graves. Longtime President Yoweri Museveni embraces boda-boda men as mobilizers of political support.

Biden tells DNC audience than in his half-century in politics, 'America, I gave my best to you.'

Harris joins Biden onstage after DNC speech in which he says she'll be a 'historic president.'

A special commission tasked with investigating the deadliest mass shooting in Maine history is slated to release its findings on Tuesday after months of emotional, often tearful, public hearings. Maine Gov. Janet Mills assembled the independent commission in the wake of the Oct. 25 mass shooting, carried out by an Army reservist, that killed 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar and grill in Lewiston. The commission first met nine months ago and has held numerous hearings with victims’ families, law enforcement, Army personnel and others. The commission is holding a news conference about the release of the report at Lewiston City Hall at 11 a.m.

Biden gets a rousing ovation from Democrats as he gives Harris an enthusiastic endorsement

Biden uses DNC speech to acknowledge pro-Palestinian protesters, saying 'they have a point.'

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to appear in court to defend his effort to get on the presidential ballot in Pennsylvania, where Democrats are angling to force him off. Tuesday's court hearing will test allegations by challengers who say Kennedy’s paperwork states a false home address and contains other shortcomings. Kennedy’s campaign dismisses the challenge as “frivolous.” Should Kennedy appear on Pennsylvania’s ballot, he could siphon support from Republican nominee Donald Trump or Democratic nominee Kamala Harris. A margin of tens of thousands of votes delivered victory to Joe Biden in 2020 and Trump in 2016. Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral votes are tied with Illinois for fifth most.

Biden gets a rousing ovation from Democrats as he gives Harris an enthusiastic endorsement

Republicans will decide in Wyoming’s primaries whether to stick with a long-serving U.S. senator and first-term congresswoman or change up to political underdogs. Republican Sen. John Barrasso on Tuesday faces a challenge from Casper-area financial advisor Reid Rasner in his pursuit of a third full term. Republican Rep. Harriet Hageman is challenged by Casper attorney Steven Helling, who has switched parties since finishing third in the Democratic U.S. House primary two years ago. Political newcomers are Democrats' only choice for Senate and House. Scott Morrow of Laramie is the lone Democratic candidate for Senate and Kyle Cameron of Cheyenne the only Democratic candidate for House.

Florida U.S. Sen. Rick Scott has his sights on a GOP leadership role, but first he has to get past two candidates in the state’s Republican primary and a Democratic opponent in November. Scott is seeking to run for Senate Republican leader to replace retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. First he faces two contestants on Tuesday. If he wins the primary, he would face a Democratic opponent in November. On the Democratic side, former U.S. Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell is the frontrunner. She got President Joe Biden’s endorsement in April. The senate seat isn't the only one for Floridians to watch, since some of the state’s congressional races include the most well known far-right conservative members of Congress.

Phil Donahue, who ruled daytime talk for years until Oprah overtook him, left a lasting imprint

A German federal court will announce its verdict on the appeal of a 99-year-old woman who was convicted of being an accessory to more than 10,000 murders for her role as a secretary to the SS commander of the Nazis’ Stutthof concentration camp during World War II. Irmgard Furchner took her case to the Federal Court of Justice after her conviction in December 2022 by a state court in Itzehoe in northern Germany. The court will make a ruling on Tuesday. She was accused of being part of the apparatus that helped the camp function. The state court gave her a two-year suspended sentence.

CHICAGO — While tossing back drinks during a bar crawl on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said he was “concerned” about President Joe Biden’s reelection prospects before Biden dropped out of the race last month.

Phil Donahue, the talk show host who roamed his audience with a microphone and ruled daytime TV for decades, has died at age 88. The talk format Donahue established in 1967 and kept up for nearly 30 years eventually spawned scores of imitators including Oprah Winfrey, who would knock him off his perch as the king of daytime. His show gave many Americans their first exposure to issues like feminism, gay marriage and sexual harassment. Winfrey overtook him in the ratings in the mid-1980s but “Donahue” would go on for another 10 years. And Donahue praised Winfrey for raising “all boats” on daytime TV due to her success.

A pre-dawn police raid targeting the family home of a Paraguayan lawmaker in a notorious drug smuggling haven turned into a chaotic shootout that left the lawmaker dead and the nation on edge. Monday's killing of Eulalio “Lalo” Gomes, a 67-year-old rancher and lawmaker in Paraguay’s ruling Colorado party, also served as a grim reminder of the web of collusion between politicians’ families and organized crime in Paraguay, experts said. Security forces with search warrants arrived at the homes of Gomes and his son to look for evidence in what authorities described as a wide-scale investigation into drug smuggling and money laundering in local real estate.

President Joe Biden greeted by raucous DNC crowd in an ovation that lasts several minutes.

Eight years after she stood on the Democratic National Convention stage to accept the nomination in Philadelphia, Hillary Clinton returned to the DNC podium to stump for Vice President Kamala Harris, the second woman to be chosen as a major party’s presidential nominee.

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Phil Donahue’s wife Marlo Thomas paid tribute to her “sweetheart” on Instagram Monday, announcing a hiatus from the platform following his death.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was met with chants of "Karen! Karen!" after she described Vice President Kamala Harris as a role model who would fight to protect children at Monday's opening night of the Democratic National Convention.

CHICAGO — Illinois U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin likened Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to “a bad boss” during a speech on the first night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

Warriors head coach Steve Kerr endorsed vice president Kamala Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz, in a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Monday.

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Spencer Steer hit a tiebreaking RBI double in Cincinnati’s four-run sixth inning, and the Reds beat the Toronto Blue Jays 6-3 to stop a three-game slide. TJ Friedl hit his 10th homer and finished with three hits for Cincinnati in the opener of a seven-game trip. Ty France had two hits and two RBIs. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit his 26th homer for Toronto, and Ernie Clement also went deep. Kevin Gausman permitted four runs, three earned, and five hits in five-plus innings in his first loss July 5.

A federal judge has denied Hunter Biden’s latest bid to dismiss the tax charges against him, setting the stage for his trial to begin next month in California. Citing a ruling in Florida that threw out a separate prosecution of former President Donald Trump, Hunter Biden’s lawyers had urged the judge to dismiss the case accusing him of a four-year scheme to avoid paying at least $1.4 million in taxes. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon tossed Trump’s classified documents case last month because she said special counsel Jack Smith, who filed those charges, was illegally appointed by the Justice Department.

CHICAGO — Sam Schwartz just finished caravaning around the country in an RV for 28 days with half a dozen fellow Gen Z activists. The 20-year-old gun reform activist stopped in 15 districts across 11 states on a mission to get Democrats elected to Congress.

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