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  • Planes and buses arrive in Guatemala every day, returning migrants who've tried and failed to make it to the United States. Many are minors, stopped by Mexican police and deported back home.
  • Struggling Milwaukee public schools are in limbo. The first day of classes is right around the corner, and they don’t know if they’re going to get picked for the state’s new Opportunity Schools and Partnership Program. Under OSPP, the state has labeled one-third of schools in MPS “failing,” and instructed the county executive to place several under the direction of a commissioner. But he recently resigned, without enacting a plan. While leaders decide how to proceed, schools on the list are planning to use the new year to demonstrate they’re doing a good job.
  • Veterans can visit 14 CVS MinuteClinics in the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento, Calif., for simple care, lab tests and prescriptions. Will the experiment work well enough to go nationwide?
  • The Tilakamonkul family opened Bangkok Market in 1972. It became a magnet for Asian immigrants and chefs looking for rare ingredients. Their own son, Jet Tila, is now a celebrity chef.
  • President Trump's Supreme Court nominee faces confirmation hearings, and the House nears a vote on the GOP's health care bill. That all could be drowned out by ongoing controversy about Russia.
  • The Tom Cruise time-bending action film Edge of Tomorrow brings a fresh and often witty approach to a potentially creaky genre — even if the ending can't keep the momentum going.
  • Veterans in some rural areas have to travel hundreds of miles on empty interstates to get health care, losing a day of work or sometimes two. A new program lets them see nearby doctors instead.
  • Henry, a 71-year-old neurosurgeon and public official, had been appointed prime minister two days before the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse but hadn't been sworn in.
  • In June, about 340 couples a day were getting hitched in Sin City, a rate higher than even before the pandemic.
  • Eight U.S. states held primary elections on Tuesday -- Slate political editor John Dickerson talks with Alex Chadwick and Madeleine Brand about the results and what they mean for November's mid-term elections.
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