30: The FAA on Tuesday banned flights from the US to Haiti for 30 days after a Spirit Airlines flight was damaged by gunfire as it attempted to land in Port-au-Prince on Monday. The flight was forced to divert to the Dominican Republic, and one flight attendant reported minor injuries. Haiti has been plagued by instability and gang violence for years. It’s estimated that gangs control 85% of the Haitian capital.
15: A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced Jack Teixeira to 15 years in prison. Teixeira, 22, is a former Massachusetts Air National Guardsman behind a massive leak of classified military documents largely pertaining to the war in Ukraine. He admitted to leaking the documents to online chat rooms and pleaded guilty in March to six counts of violating the Espionage Act.
100: The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, resigned Tuesday in the wake of a report that concluded he didn’t take sufficient steps against a British lawyer, John Smyth, who was described as “arguably the most prolific serial abuser to be associated with the Church of England.” Smyth, who ran Christian camps for boys, is believed to have abused more than 100 boys and young men in Britain, South Africa, and Zimbabwe for nearly half a century.
35: A 62-year-old man drove his car into a crowd of people at a sports center in southern China, killing at least 35 people and injuring dozens more, Chinese police said Tuesday. The incident occurred Monday, but the death toll was not reported by authorities until the next day — and it’s unclear why. The driver, who was apprehended and taken to a hospital, was reportedly upset over the terms of a divorce settlement.
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