Officials urged residents to call local police or fire stations to seek help. It was not immediately clear what caused the outage or how long it would last. Read full article

The Republican convention will be held in swing-state Wisconsin’s largest city. The nominee, however, had planned to stay his own hotel in Chicago, until members of the media began inquiring. Read full article

Thousands of people were being evacuated from the village of Ruidoso and nearby areas as of Tuesday morning. Read full article

A volunteer search-and-rescue organization reported finding the monolith over the weekend near the Gass Peak trail, which is north of Las Vegas. Read full article

Lawyers said Marvin Grimm Jr. had falsely confessed to the 1975 murder of a 3-year-old boy, and served more time in prison than any client exonerated with the help of the Innocence Project. Read full article

While he was reviving Portland, Ore., as a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly city, he was also sexually abusing a teenage girl, as he later admitted. Read full article

Boris Epshteyn, who oversees Donald J. Trump’s legal team, was arraigned on nine felony charges on Tuesday. Read full article

Anderson Lee Aldrich was convicted in the 2022 shooting that killed five people at an L.G.B.T.Q. nightclub in Colorado Springs. Read full article

The State and Justice Departments disagree about what to do with more than half a billion dollars after a French company pleaded guilty to aiding militants in war-torn Syria. Read full article