Today’s edition of quick hits.

* Ohio’s latest mass shooting: “Four people, including a police officer, died of gunshot wounds on Sunday during a law enforcement investigation of a break-in at a house in Northeast Ohio, the authorities said. Four other law enforcement officers were injured. The episode occurred in Rittman, a city of more than 6,000 people about 40 miles south of Cleveland.”

* In the Middle East: “Oil prices jumped to their highest level since June 25 Tuesday, after the U.S. revoked a temporary sanctions waiver that had allowed for the sale of Iranian oil on the global market. The Trump administration’s decision came after multiple tankers near the Strait of Hormuz had been hit by unknown projectiles.”

* Right-wing politics in Europe, Part I: “French far-right leader Marine Le Pen will be allowed to run for president in next year’s election, after a court on Tuesday reduced her ban on holding elected office. The court also upheld Le Pen’s March 2025 conviction for misusing European Parliament funds. The verdict is set to reshape the 2027 contest to replace President Emmanuel Macron. The constitution prevents Macron from seeking a third consecutive term.”

* Right-wing politics in Europe, Part II: “For weeks, Nigel Farage, the leader of the populist right-wing Reform U.K. party, has been on the defensive after a series of damaging revelations about his financial affairs, including undisclosed gifts from a cryptocurrency billionaire and from a political ally once convicted of fraud in the United States. On Tuesday he tried to reclaim the narrative, unexpectedly announcing he would resign from Parliament and run for re-election for his seat in Clacton, eastern England.”

* The right call: “The U.S. Department of Justice cannot have the names and personal contact information for every person who worked during the 2020 election in Georgia’s Fulton County, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.”

* Why would any institution be inclined to reward Russia right now? “The International Olympic Committee announced on Tuesday that it is temporarily lifting a suspension on the Russian Olympic Committee, removing restrictions on Russian nationals to compete in the 2028 games in Los Angeles.”

* This is a story with all kinds of potential: “The dean of Yale Law School and some members of its faculty are trying to stop a settlement between the university and the Trump administration, warning that an agreement could jeopardize Yale’s independence, according to two people familiar with the deliberations.”

* The latest in a long line of legal defeats for DeSantis: “Florida’s anti-woke law restricting how lessons on race and gender can be taught in colleges and universities — policies championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis — violates the free speech rights of professors, a panel of appeals court judges ruled Tuesday. The decision from a divided 2-1 panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit is a devastating, possibly final blow to the so-called Stop WOKE Act touted by the DeSantis administration.”

* Given the circumstances, it’s tough to know what to believe: “Several of Sen. Mitch McConnell’s Republican colleagues and allies said on Tuesday that they’ve spoken with him by phone, offering the fullest picture yet of the hospitalized Kentucky Republican’s condition after more than three weeks in which he has not been seen publicly and his office has said little.”

See you tomorrow.

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