Cuban dissident artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara has arrived in Miami to live in exile after spending five years in prison. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed his arrival and called for the release of more than 700 other detainees in Cuba.
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Andrew and Tristan Tate were arrested in Miami as British prosecutors announced additional rape, trafficking and sexual offense charges and said they would seek extradition. The brothers deny wrongdoing, and their attorney called the new charges “filth and slander.”
British runner Josh Kerr ran 3:42.66 in London to break Hicham El Guerrouj’s 27-year-old mile world record. Kerr had publicly targeted the mark through “Project 222” and won by more than three seconds.
Rep. Ralph Norman is running in South Carolina’s special Republican Senate primary despite President Donald Trump’s endorsement of Sen. Darline Graham, the late Lindsey Graham’s sister. Candidates must file by July 21 for the Aug. 11 primary.
U.S. Central Command said two American service members were killed and one is missing after Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks in Jordan. Four others were medically evacuated and have since been discharged.
More than 50 million people in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic faced severe weather risks as wildfire smoke began clearing in the East but lingered over the Midwest. Storms could bring damaging winds, hail, isolated tornadoes and flash flooding from Washington to Boston.
German conservative Jens Spahn resigned as parliamentary leader of the governing CDU/CSU bloc after criticism over his use of a surrogate mother in the United States. Surrogacy is banned in Germany, and Spahn’s party has reaffirmed support for that ban.
U.S. and Iranian strikes damaged water, power and oil-related facilities in Iran and Kuwait, disrupting drinking water for 10,000 people in southern Iran. Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan reported intercepting Iranian missiles and drones as the conflict widened across the Gulf region.