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Teachers are getting targeted anti-union emails from conservative groups

By Sarah Schwartz, Education Week

Conservative, free-market groups across the country have launched campaigns aimed at persuading teachers to drop out of their unions, in the aftermath of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that will put a dent in unions’ finances and membership numbers.

Rick Gates says he and former boss Paul Manafort disguised foreign income as loans

By Eric Tucker, Matthew Barakat, Chad Day, Associated Press

Longtime Manafort deputy Rick Gates returns to the witness stand in the fraud trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

Tesla stock halted as CEO Elon Musk tweets he may take electric car company private

By Michael Liedtke, Alexandra Olson, Associated Press

The unusual step taken early Tuesday afternoon came shortly after Musk dropped a bombshell on his Twitter account by announcing he had lined up the financing to buy all of Tesla's stock at $420 per share.

Kansas man sentenced to life in prison for 2017 shooting that targeted Indian men

By Joshua Barajas

The white man who fatally shot Indian national Srinivas Kuchibhotla and wounded two other men at a bar in northeastern Kansas last year targeted them "because of their race, color, and national origin," federal prosecutors said.

Where do young Americans stand on guns?

By Laura Santhanam

Safety is a growing concern among young Americans when it comes to guns.

Largest wildfire in California history still growing

By Associated Press

On Monday, twin fires in Northern California being treated as one became the largest wildfire in state history, destroying 443 square miles — nearly the size of the city of Los Angeles.

AP fact check: Wildfire, water experts rebut Trump’s claims

By Ellen Knickmeyer, Associated Press

For one thing, the wildfires are in the hills, far from the Pacific Ocean and from the man-made storage and distribution system that carries water from California's wetter north to the drier, more populated south.

Washington Democrats hope to win U.S. House seat for the first time

By Rachel La Corte, Associated Press

The Washington state primary contest getting the most attention in Tuesday's election is an open U.S. House seat Democrats hope to capture for the first time since the district east of Seattle was created in 1980.

Missouri deciding on right-to-work law that curbs union power

By David A. Lieb, Associated Press

If voters consent to Proposition A, Missouri would become the 28th state outlawing mandatory union fees in workplace contracts and the sixth Republican-led state to do so in the past six years.

5 important stories that deserve a closer look

By Joshua Barajas, Jessica Yarvin, Erica R. Hendry

A new law in France will give fines to street harassers, a county in Georgia will place a long rifle in every high school and middle school this fall and other stories we're reading now.