A suspect was arrested in connection with one of three wildfires in Spokane, Wash., that destroyed hundreds of homes and displaced nearly a quarter of the city's residents.
Five state primaries were held Tuesday with Michigan a key focus for Democrats wanting to see how progressives fare in races.
The U.S. and its partners depend on Patriot interceptors to shoot down incoming ballistic missiles, but Russia and Iran are firing their weapons at rates far higher than Patriots can be produced.
World
Ukrainian forces sank a Rosatom-owned container ship in the Black Sea, forcing its 17-member crew to abandon it while transporting civilian goods.
Kuwait's defense ministry detected and intercepted Iranian drones entering the country's airspace.
Israeli strikes in Gaza killed at least 17 people, including children, overnight and into Sunday evening.
Business
Amazon eclipsed $3 trillion in market cap for the first time, though it pulled back 2% Tuesday after Jeff Bezos filed to sell around $4 billion worth of shares.
Marvell Technology advanced nearly 13%, boosting semiconductor stocks as the sector recovered from weakness.
Eli Lilly and The Kraft Heinz Company are scheduled to report earnings today, with investors monitoring their quarterly results alongside Federal Reserve signals on interest rates.
Technology
OpenAI announced August 1 that its internal Astra model solved ten previously open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science for roughly $2,000 in compute.
A federal judge said the Trump administration has not presented enough evidence to justify labeling Anthropic a supply-chain risk, casting doubt on the government's ban on its AI technology.
AMD announced second quarter earnings on Tuesday, topping analysts' projections on revenue and earnings, but shares fell more than 8 percent.
Science
NASA's Curiosity rover discovered an unusual honeycomb landscape in a Martian valley, with tiny polygon-shaped fractures only a few inches wide stretching across the terrain.
NASA's solar mission predicted a solar explosion's arrival at Earth with stunning precision, while a weekly anti-HIV pill neared the market even as vaccine research faced new challenges.
Scientists determined how two poisonous plants, wolfsbane and larkspur, create chemicals with surprising medical potential.
Economy
Federal Reserve kept interest rates steady at 3.5%-3.75% with three officials dissenting on the July 29 decision, signaling internal debate over inflation.
US inflation fell to 3.5% in June from 4.2% in May, the first monthly decline in five months as energy costs eased.
The July jobs report due Friday is expected to show approximately 100,000 new jobs added to the labor market.
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