Today’s edition of quick hits.
* It begins: “National Guard troops began arriving at the D.C. Armory on Tuesday morning to report for duty to carry out President Donald Trump’s directive to address crime in the nation’s capital.”
* The latest on Friday’s deadly shooting at the CDC: “The man who opened fire at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters last week, killing a police officer, died by suicide, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Tuesday. The shooter, identified by authorities as 30-year-old Patrick Joseph White, ‘died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound,’ the bureau’s director, Chris Hosey, said Tuesday at a news conference.”
* In related news: “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staffers are voicing frustration over Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s past vaccine comments, following Friday’s shooting at the agency’s headquarters in Atlanta that left one police officer dead.”
* They’re right to be concerned: “Europe is scrambling to stop itself and Ukraine from being frozen out of peace talks between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, fearing they could reshape the military and political future of the Continent without them.”
* Speaking of Russia: “Investigators have uncovered evidence that Russia is at least in part responsible for a recent hack of the computer system that manages federal court documents, including highly sensitive records that might contain information that could reveal sources and people charged with national security crimes, according to several people briefed on the breach.”
* In this 4th Circuit case, the two judges in the majority were appointed by Republican presidents (one Trump nominee and one George W. Bush nominee): “A federal appeals court on Tuesday allowed teams affiliated with the Department of Government Efficiency to gain access to potentially sensitive data on millions of Americans, overruling a lower court that had blocked that access in February.”
* “Space law” is one of those phrases we should probably get to know: “Accelerated plans announced by NASA this month for the United States to put a nuclear reactor on the moon ahead of its geopolitical rivals would break new ground — not just on the lunar surface, but in the realm of space law.”
* It would probably be a good idea to start paying attention to this storm, if you haven’t already done so: “Tropical Storm Erin is forecast to become the season’s first hurricane by Thursday. The storm, which earned a name early Monday and is churning in the open Atlantic, could strengthen into a major hurricane of at least Category 3 strength by this weekend.”
See you tomorrow.