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Elsa/Getty ImagesCaitlin Clark set a record on Tuesday in her first regular-season WNBA game—just not the kind the rookie sensation was hoping for.The Indiana Fever guard notched 10 turnovers, the most in a debut game in league history.She did notch a solid 20 points—a team high that made her just the third WNBA player to score 20 or more in their first game—though she was slow to start and turned in a much worse-than-expected 5-for-15 from the field as the Fever fell to the Connecticut Sun 92-71.Read more at The Daily Beast.

GoFundMeAuthorities in Florida arrested the driver of a pickup truck that slammed into a bus carrying dozens of migrant workers early Tuesday, killing eight and sending more than 40 others to area hospitals.Bryan Maclean Howard, 41, was charged with eight counts of D.U.I. manslaughter, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.The bus, carrying roughly 53 farm workers, was traveling down a highway in north-central Florida when an approaching 2001 Ford Ranger “for unknown reasons, traveled toward the center line” of the road around 6:30 a.m., Lt. Patrick Riordan said at a news conference.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesFormer Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn defended the Capitol Building on Jan. 6 and dreamed of returning four years later as a congressman. Tuesday, that dream crumbled when Dunn lost the Democratic nomination for a House seat in Maryland.In Tuesday’s primary, Maryland state Sen. Sarah Elfreth was projected to defeat over 20 Democratic rivals vying for an open U.S. House seat, including Dunn. She is now on a glide path to the House of Representatives in the comfortably blue suburban Baltimore district come November.Dunn shot into the national spotlight after defending the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6 and brought media attention with him into an otherwise routine Democratic open seat primary. Though Dunn is not from the suburban Baltimore district he competed to represent, he raked in $3.75 million largely from grassroots donors supportive of the Capitol cop-turned-congressional hopeful.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Will Price, West Virginia Legislative Photography via APDerrick Evans filmed himself strolling the halls of Congress as a member of the pro-Trump mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2021. Three years later, the ultraconservative West Virginian hoped to return to Capitol Hill as a full-fledged congressman.On Tuesday, however, those dreams were dashed.The Associated Press projected that his opponent, three-term Rep. Carol Miller (R-WV) clinched the GOP nomination with over 60 percent of the vote.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesAfter a bitter primary battle against a wealthy wine mogul, Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks was projected to win the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Maryland, laying the table for a bruising match-up with former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R).She was projected by the Associated Press to defeat the deep-pocketed Rep. David Trone (D-MD) in this cycle’s most competitive Democratic primary ahead of a flippable Senate race.Though the primary was a costly brawl, with Trone self-funding to the tune of a staggering $61 million, the general election could be just as pricey—with Alsobrooks set to take on on Hogan, a moderate darling of Maryland politics despite the R next to his name. By jumping into the race earlier this year, Hogan turned a solidly blue state into a tantalizing Republican flip.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Good Morning America / YouTubeThe moms of former Miss Teen USA and Miss USA have spoken out about the alleged toxic work environment which prompted their daughters to resign from the pageant organization earlier this month.During an interview on Good Morning America Tuesday, Barbara Srivastava and Jackeline Voigt called for changes within the Miss USA pageant organization.“We could not continue this charade,” Srivastava said. Her daughter UmaSofia, resigned from the organization last week, after being crowned Miss Teen USA in September last year. In an announcement on Instagram, UmaSofia wrote that her “personal values no longer fully align with the direction of the organization.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Laure Andrillon/ReutersRobert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, personally delivered paperwork to the Texas secretary of state’s office this week and claimed in a video that the independent presidential candidate had gathered “far beyond the number of signatures” necessary to place him on the ballot.“Thank you guys so much. This is so meaningful,” Shanahan said while seated inside a vehicle, waiting for Kennedy to arrive. “This is the path to democracy in this country.” She was holding a box that she said contained signatures gathered by volunteers on Kennedy’s behalf.His presence on the ballot in November is not yet official, matching his status in several other states. As of last week, Kennedy was confirmed to appear on the ballot in Utah, Hawaii, Delaware, California, and Michigan, with six other states still pending.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Reuters/Dado RuvicA coalition of TikTok creators filed a joint lawsuit Tuesday against the U.S. government in hopes of preventing the popular social network from being banned early next year. The lawsuit, filed by eight influencers, asserted that the potential ban would not only strip them of their way of living, but rob others of a critical “part of American life.”The 33-page complaint largely echoes the same arguments TikTok made in a lawsuit it filed itself last week, claiming that a ban of the social network would be a First Amendment violation that robs 170 million U.S. users of their freedom. Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty Images/YouTubeBill Burr is drawing high praise for absolutely roasting HBO late-night host Bill Maher during a recent exchange about the Israel-Hamas War and college protests, prompting observers to applaud the acid-tongued comic for “shutting down an incredibly self-important” Maher.During a recent appearance on Maher’s podcast Club Random, in which the 68-year-old Real Time star smokes weed and drinks while whining about “woke” liberals with his guests, Burr stunned the host by declaring cancel culture “over” and that “no one cares anymore” about it.“That’s so not true, either one of us could get canceled in the next two minutes,” Maher exclaimed.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty ImagesNew York City Mayor Eric Adams said that the city should hire undocumented immigrants to be lifeguards because they’re “excellent swimmers.”Adams, who previously claimed the massive influx of asylum seekers would “destroy New York City,” made the off-color comment during a press conference on Tuesday about lifeguard staffing at NYC public pools and beaches.“How do we have a large body of people that are in our city, our country, that are excellent swimmers and at the same time we need lifeguards—and the only obstacle is that we won’t give them the right to work to become a lifeguard?” he said.Read more at The Daily Beast.