Ohio officials have stationed state police at Springfield schools in response to bomb threats that officials say are mostly coming from overseas. Gov. Mike DeWine dispatched dozens of members of the Ohio State Highway Patrol to city schools on Tuesday. Springfield gained attention recently after former President Donald Trump and running mate JD Vance made disparaging remarks about Haitian immigrants in the city. Schools, government buildings and elected officials’ homes in Springfield were among the targets of the more than 30 hoax threats made last week, forcing evacuations and closures. Two more schools had to be evacuated on Monday. The governor's office says the ‘vast majority’ of the threats came from overseas.

Firefighters battling three major wildfires in the mountains east of Los Angeles are gaining ground against the blazes. And cooler temperatures are helping. Authorities began scaling back evacuation orders that displaced thousands of people after fire crews increased containment on the blazes. The largest blaze is the Bridge Fire east of Los Angeles, which has burned 81 square miles, torched at least 33 homes and forced the evacuation of 10,000 people. Temperatures had reached the triple digits last weekend. But forecasts for this weekend call for temperatures to drop to the 70s.

House Speaker Mike Johnson has presented Congress’ highest honor — the Congressional Gold Medal — to 13 U.S. service members who were killed during the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. But the politics of a presidential election swirled around the event. Both Democrats and Republicans supported the legislation to posthumously honor the 13 U.S. troops. They were killed along with more than 170 Afghans in a suicide bombing at the Abbey Gate at Kabul’s Airport in August 2021. The event took place against the backdrop of a bitter back-and-forth over who is to blame for the rushed and deadly evacuation from Kabul.