Bill Gates testified behind closed doors on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. The release of the Justice Department's files related to Jeffery Epstein have raised questions over the Microsoft founder's ties to the late convicted sex offender.
When President Donald Trump made claims of Democratic vote-rigging in the Los Angeles election, his top appointed prosecutor in the city took to the cameras to validate those beliefs while hinting his office may never be able prove that kind of grand conspiracy. https://cnn.it/4okD0LK

Today, exactly one hundred years since the architect Antoni Gaudí's death, Pope Leo XIV visited the iconic basilica to celebrate a Mass and inaugurate the tower which makes the church the tallest in the world. https://cnn.it/43o6QFN

US prosecutors said they will not seek the death penalty as part of a plea agreement with the man charged in the political assassinations of the top Democrat in the Minnesota House along with her husband, as well as the attempted murders of a state senator and his wife. https://cnn.it/3Q9Zjr8
Building a televised sporting event accommodating more than 100,000 people without any existing arena infrastructure is a massive production. Doing so at the White House adds significant logistical complications. https://cnn.it/4v2xkZp

Taiwan’s military fired rockets in China’s direction from “shoot-and-scoot” mobile launchers on Wednesday in a demonstration of how it might try to repel a Chinese attack. https://cnn.it/49TPgwX
Thousands of Southern Baptists overwhelmingly voted to advance a formal ban on women pastors in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. https://cnn.it/4xiZ6Cu

The US has launched new airstrikes against multiple targets in Iran after President Trump said attacks would resume. https://cnn.it/3S0XiOu

Federal authorities have seized over a dozen websites they say were used by suspected Chinese agents to recruit former and current American officials with security clearances.