Today is Tuesday, July 22, the 203rd day of 2025. There are 162 days left in the year.

Today in history:

On July 22, 1933, Aviator Wiley Post landed at Floyd Bennett Field in New York City, completing the first solo flight around the world in 7 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes.

Also on this date:

In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln presented to his Cabinet a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation.

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In 1934, bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago’s Biograph Theater, where he had just seen the Clark Gable movie “Manhattan Melodrama.”

In 1937, the U.S. Senate rejected President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court.

In 1942, the Nazis began transporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp.

In 1943, American forces led by Gen. George S. Patton captured Palermo, Sicily, during World War II.

In 1975, the House of Representatives joined the Senate in voting to restore the American citizenship of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

In 1991, police in Milwaukee arrested Jeffrey Dahmer, who later confessed to murdering 17 men and boys.

In 1992, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxury prison near Medellin (meh-deh-YEEN’). (He was slain by security forces in December 1993.)

In 2011, Anders Breivik (AHN’-durs BRAY’-vihk), a self-described “militant nationalist,” massacred 69 people at a Norwegian island youth retreat after detonating a bomb in nearby Oslo that killed eight others in the nation’s worst violence since World War II.

In 2015, a federal grand jury indictment charged Dylann Roof, the young man accused of killing nine Black church members in Charleston, South Carolina, with 33 counts including hate crimes that made him eligible for the death penalty. (Roof would become the first person sentenced to death for a federal hate crime; he is on death row at a federal prison in Indiana.)

In 2022, Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, was convicted of contempt charges for defying a congressional subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. (Bannon is currently serving his four-month sentence in federal prison.)

Today’s Birthdays:

Actor Terence Stamp is 87.
Singer George Clinton is 84.
Actor-singer Bobby Sherman is 82.
Former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, is 82.
Movie writer-director Paul Schrader is 79.
Actor Danny Glover is 79.
Singer Mireille Mathieu is 79.
Actor-comedian-director Albert Brooks is 78.
Rock singer Don Henley is 78.
Author S.E. Hinton is 77.
Film composer Alan Menken is 76.
Jazz musician Al Di Meola (mee-OH’-lah) is 71.
Actor Willem Dafoe is 70.
Actor John Leguizamo is 65.
R&B singer Keith Sweat is 64.
Folk singer Emily Saliers (Indigo Girls) is 62.
Actor-comedian David Spade is 61.
Actor Rhys Ifans (rees EYE’-fanz) is 58.
Actor/singer Jaime Camil is 52.
Singer Rufus Wainwright is 52. Actor Franka Potente (poh-TEN’-tay) is 51.
Actor Selena Gomez is 33.
NFL running back Ezekiel Elliott is 30.

LOS ANGELES — As jeers rained down on Carlos Correa from a Dodger Stadium crowd voicing its displeasure over the 2017 Houston Astros — Correa’s team was found to be electronically stealing signs that season, during which it beat the Dodgers in the World Series — the Twins’ shortstop nearly found a way to quiet the masses.

Correa, representing the game-tying run, drove a pitch from Kirby Yates 399 feet out to left. The ball sailed deep into the night before settling in the glove of center fielder James Outman, who leapt right at the wall to bring the ball back down and secure the 5-2 win for the Dodgers on Monday night.

“When I hit it, I thought it had a pretty good chance,” Correa said.

But so it went for the Twins (48-52) on Monday, who outhit the Dodgers (59-42) on the night and made plenty of loud contact, but were largely unable to manufacture runs, finishing the day 1 for 8 with runners in scoring position and leaving 13 runners on.

The Dodgers, meanwhile, hit four balls that left the park with all five of their runs coming via the longball.

“We didn’t really do the job when there were people on base, even though we had pretty good at-bats,” manager Rocco Baldelli said. “It’s not like I think we went out there and got outplayed. They hit the ball over the fence when they hit it. … They didin’t have much else going on the entire game.”

Twins starter David Festa pitched into the sixth inning on Monday night against one of the best offenses in baseball, limiting the Dodgers to just four hits. Three of them went out.

It was a game that the Twins actually led — briefly — when Byron Buxton got the best of Shohei Ohtani in an all-star on all-star matchup. The Twins’ all-star got ahold of the second pitch of the game from Ohtani and sent it 410 feet out to left-center field, arriving back to an excited crowd of teammates in the first-base dugout.

But it didn’t take long for the superstar to return the favor. After Festa walked Mookie Betts to lead off the bottom of the first inning, Ohtani hit a ball to center field that carried well over Buxton’s head and gave Los Angeles the lead.

“That’s like as a kid, you give up a homer and you go back in the dugout and say, ‘I’m about to get that back,’” Buxton said. “That’s literally like that moment. I didn’t want it to be against us, but that was crazy. It was wild.”

It was the 35th home run of the season for Ohtani, who struck out in his next three at-bats and did not give up another run in his three innings pitched, despite some hard contact. Ohtani has been limited to short starts thus far this season as he works his way back from a 2023 elbow surgery.

But while Festa fanned Ohtani in each of their next two matchups, he couldn’t do the same against Will Smith, who was batting behind him in the Dodgers’ lineup. Smith took Festa deep in both the fourth and sixth innings of his start, widening the Dodgers’ lead. They scored their last run an inning later when Andy Pages hit a blast off Cole Sands.

The Twins, meanwhile, were kept quiet by Ohtani and Dustin May, who came after him and pitched 4 2/3 innings. It wasn’t until the ninth inning that they finally added another run with a Kody Clemens sacrifice fly bringing home Buxton.

A day after hitting a pair of home runs in Colorado, Royce Lewis added another three hits on Monday, collecting a pair of singles and a double. Matt Wallner, hitting behind him, added two hits and walked twice, positive developments from two key members of the lineup.

But though that duo was on base throughout the night and the Twins could never bring them home, they still were within striking distance when Correa stepped up to the plate in the ninth.

“That ball is tattooed and he hit it right around the perfect trajectory to get it out of the ballpark,” Baldelli said. “(I’m) not sure how it didn’t go out of the ballpark but it didn’t and we have to live with that fact.”

Fourth-term Republican state Sen. Eric Pratt, of Prior Lake, announced a bid for Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District on Monday.

Pratt joins Democrat colleague Sen. Matt Klein in the 2026 race for the seat, which is left open following Rep. Angie Craig’s bid for Sen. Tina Smith’s Senate seat. Pratt is entering the race for a competitive purple district, which covers the south Twin Cities metro area; Scott, Dakota and Le Sueur counties; and parts of Rice County and Washington County.

State Sen. Eric Pratt, of Prior Lake, announced his bid for Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District on July 21, 2025.

“This campaign is about putting families first,” Pratt said in a Monday news release. “The people of the Second District deserve a representative who listens, understands their challenges, and delivers real results. President Trump is making strides and bringing energy back to our economy, but families in CD2 still need someone who can win in November to keep that momentum going. This open seat is critical, and it’s going to take a Republican in Congress who will fight to deliver real relief where it’s needed most.”

Pratt co-chaired the Senate Finance Committee when the Senate was tied in 2025, and sits on the Capitol Investment and Jobs and Economic Development committees. Outside of the Senate, Pratt has worked in finance for U.S. Bank and Target, according to his campaign website.

The 2026 race for the 2nd Congressional District seat is expected to be one of the most competitive of the state’s congressional districts.

Craig first flipped the congressional seat in 2018, which had been red since 2001. She was narrowly reelected in 2020 with 48% of the vote and in 2022 with 51%, according to the Minnesota Secretary of State. Craig won the purple district most comfortably in the 2024 general election, when she defeated Republican Joe Teirab with 55% of the vote.

Other candidates in the race include Democrat and former state Sen. Matt Little, as well as Republican Tyler Kistner, a former U.S. Marine Corps member.

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The pilot of a regional airliner flying over North Dakota made an unexpected sharp turn to avoid a possible midair collision with a military B-52 bomber that was in its flight path over the weekend.

The Friday incident is detailed in a video taken by a passenger and posted to social media. Delta Flight 3788, originating from the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, was approaching the Minot International Airport for landing. In the video, the SkyWest pilot can be heard over the plane’s intercom system explaining that he made the hard bank after spotting a B-52 bomber in his flight path.

The passenger who took the video, Monica Green, said in an interview that she was sitting near the front of SkyWest Flight 3788 from MSP to Minot, N.D., when she felt the plane swerve “harshly” to the right near the end of the trip. The turn was so sharp that she found herself looking out the window, not at the sky, but at the cornfields below, she said.

“My plane keeps circling and not landing,” she texted her husband at the time, according to a screenshot of their conversation.

After the plane eventually landed at Minot International Airport, she said, the pilot came into the cabin and told the passengers that he had turned to avoid hitting a military aircraft. She said the mood felt eerily calm.

“Sorry about the aggressive maneuver,” a man she said was the pilot can be heard saying in the video recording she made from her seat. “It caught me by surprise. This is not normal at all. I don’t know why they didn’t give us a heads up.”

An Air Force spokesperson confirmed Monday that a B-52 bomber assigned to nearby Minot Air Force Base conducted a flyover Friday of the North Dakota State Fair, which is held in Minot. The Air Force is “looking into” the incident, the spokesman said.

The North Dakota incident comes nearly six months after a midair collision between an Army helicopter and a jetliner over Washington, D.C., that killed all 67 people aboard the two aircraft. That collision and subsequent close calls with Army helicopters over the nation’s capital put the spotlight on the interaction between military and civilian flights.

SkyWest, a regional carrier for Delta and other large airlines, said the Friday flight had departed from MSP and landed safely in Minot after performing a “go-around” maneuver when another aircraft became visible in the SkyWest plane’s flight path.

Minot Air Force Base is about 10 miles north of Minot, and is home to 26 B-52 bombers, intercontinental ballistic missile operations and more than 5,400 military personnel.

No radar at airport

In the video, the pilot noted that Minot’s small airport does not operate radar and directs flights visually. When the airport tower instructed the SkyWest flight to make a right turn upon approach, the pilot said he looked in that direction and saw the bomber in his flight path. He informed the tower and made a hard turn to avoid the bomber, he said.

“I don’t know how fast they were going, but they were a lot faster than us,” the pilot said of the bomber.

Passengers can be heard applauding as the pilot wrapped up his explanation.

The Federal Aviation Administration issued a statement Monday morning simply saying it’s investigating the incident. By midafternoon, it had issued a second statement to note that air traffic services were provided by a private company that services the Minot air traffic control tower.

“These controllers are not FAA employees,” the agency said.

Some small airports like Minot’s don’t have their own radar systems on site. In fact, the vast majority of the nation’s airports don’t even have towers. But regional FAA radar facilities do oversee traffic all across the country and help direct planes in and out of airports like Minot. The Minot airport typically handles between 18 and 24 flights a day.

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The pilot’s frustration is evident in the video.

“The Air Force base does have radar, and nobody said, ‘Hey, there’s a B-52 in the pattern,’” the pilot told passengers.

This report includes information from the New York Times.