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National

1.) For their defense of the U.S. Capitol during the violent assault that took place there on Jan. 6, officers of the Capitol Police force will receive the congressional gold medal, the Senate agreed on Tuesday.

2.) The Biden administration agreed to add the emperor penguin to the endangered species list Tuesday, citing climate change as the principal threat to the seabird that makes its home in Antarctica. 

3.) Anti-vax crusader Robert Kennedy Jr. wants a California judge to order the Daily Kos to comply with a pre-suit subpoena approved by a New York judge to identify “DowneastDem,” who Kennedy claims wrote a defamatory post on the Daily Kos website.

Regional

4.) The nearly five-month investigation into New York Governor Andrew Cuomo ended Tuesday with New York's attorney general finding that several women in his administration suffered unwanted sexual harassment.

5.) As vaccination rates stagnate and dangerous mutations of the virus that causes Covid-19 spread, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday that anyone seeking to get into a restaurant, gym or a show in New York City will have to show proof that they have gotten their shot.

6.) A St. Louis County judge on Tuesday issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting the enforcement of a controversial local mask mandate designed to curb the spread of Covid-19 amid a surge driven by the delta variant.

International

7.) The crisis over Belarus is quickly worsening following a series of provocative acts by President Alexander Lukashenko, a Soviet-era style leader who has become a reviled outcast in Europe since he allegedly rigged last year's presidential elections and brutally suppressed protests.

8.) For miles and miles, the olive groves of Italy's Salento region are eerily void of any green or life – they are inert places where the olive harvest has been killed by a dangerous plant illness. Now arsonists are setting fire to the region's dead trees.

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