Zoe Jung

The bullet is said to have missed his head by "less than a quarter of an inch." That is the whole of it, really — history, for a moment, decided by margin rather than by meaning. On July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania: a rally, a rifle, eight shots.

President Trump said Monday he has a pick in mind to fill the late Sen. Lindsey Graham's Senate seat — and it's not a rising Republican star or a familiar name from Congress. Trump wants South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) to appoint the late senator's sister, Darline Graham Nordone. Graham became the legal guardian of Nordone in his early 20s after their parents died within months of each other, and the two remained close for the rest of his life.

Over the Fourth of July weekend, a soccer coach was killed in Minneapolis, a young man was shot and left fighting for his life, and a 300-person gathering broke into gunfire in northeast Minneapolis two hours after police had already broken it up once, according to police. Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher says it all traces back to a Somali gang problem that barely existed three years ago and now spans the metro. 'Great kids.' The numbers are stark.