The FBI is investigating a series of racist text messages sent to Black Americans across the country. A state attorney general has suggested that foreign actors may be involved. NBC News’ Zinhle Essamuah spoke with victims who described feeling “immediately disturbed, scared, and afraid” upon receiving the messages.source

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has directed that two rescue planes be sent immediately to Amsterdam following “a very violent incident” targeting Israeli fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv after a soccer game against Ajax.source

Five people, including two juveniles, were found dead in Minnesota, in what appears to be a quadruple murder-suicide spread across two homes.source

Gen. Kevin Schneider, a top US commander in the region, told NBC News that Chinese military flights have increased dramatically since Taiwan’s new president took office in May.source

Special counsel Jack Smith has asked the judge in Donald Trump’s election interference criminal trial to hit pause on the process and give him a month to formally request how to move forward — likely the first step in ending the prosecution.source

Bomb threats sent to polling places in at least five battleground states Tuesday targeted mostly Democratic counties, an NBC News analysis has found.source

New DNA analysis of skeletal remains from Pompeii reveals that victims of Vesuvius’s eruption have been wrongly identified.source

India’s ban on importing author Salman Rushdie’s book “The Satanic Verses” has been lifted after a court said officials were unable to find the original order.source

With the glaring exception of the presidential race, North Carolina Democrats had a good 2024 election.source