- Jared Genser, a lawyer who has been involved with high-profile cases of U.S. citizens detained in Iran, named the released citizen as his client, Dena Karari.
- Overall “margins are getting squeezed because it is a tough time for pubs right now,” one pub owner told NBC News.
- Wildfires burn near Paris for the first time, threatening the historic Fontainebleau forest. At least 13 people died in Spain's deadliest fire as Europe faces its third heatwave of summer. NBC News' Daniele Hamamdjian reports.
- Nicole Kidman, Cillian Murphy and others paid tribute to the acclaimed New Zealand actor, who was 78.
- New images have emerged following a deadly bar fire in Bangkok. The fire that happened overnight Sunday has taken the lives of 28 people. Janis Mackey Frayer has the story.
- President Trump said the U.S. will reinstate a naval blockade on Iranian ships in the Strait of Hormuz amid ongoing attacks between the U.S. and Iran. NBC News' Matt Bradley reports on the ongoing power struggle for control of the strait.
- The New Zealand actor also starred in “The Hunt for Red October,” “The Piano” and “Peaky Blinders.”
- The shooting erupted during the Salsa on St. Clair festival, a celebration of Latino culture, police said.
- The death has renewed unease about the safety of Britain’s politicians after two others were killed in the last decade.
- The U.S. launched yet another round of strikes on Iran, part of an effort it says was to thwart Tehran’s attacks on traffic in the waterway.
- Mysterious metal spheres washed ashore in Australia, and officials say they’re literal space balls — but with no known connection to Mel Brooks’ “Spaceballs.”