Editor’s note: Okay, folks, I’m going to try something here with an occasional feature where we’ll post short blurbs for a handful of stories National Zero didn’t cover during that day because of other breaking news but were still pertinent, fun or just something we thought would be interesting to you. If it works out, we’ll do it periodically as a cap on the day’s news. If it doesn’t, well, it’ll be like that person at the bar you wished you would’ve talked to when you were 27, but who slipped away. Oh, wait, no, I’m wrong. It’ll be like you to the person in the bar you wished you would’ve talked to: you’re never going to see it again. Polite feedback appreciated, and if it works out, we’ll figure out a way to have readers submit story suggestions.
- Democrats brought tubs of popcorn to the House floor to troll Republicans fighting over who should be Speaker. (Jezebel)
- A woman executed in Missouri is the first known transgender woman executed in the United States. (Associated Press)
- Walter Cunningham, the pilot of the lunar module on Apollo 7, the first Apollo mission that took humans into space, died Tuesday in Houston at the age of 90. (People Magazine)
- George Santos (R-Fraud) had a very lonely day in Congress, essentially shunned by his colleagues during the repeated votes for Speaker, in which he voted for Kevin McCarthy repeatedly. (Washington Post)
- Of those 20 Republicans in the Never Kevin camp, 18 of them were election deniers. Screwing things up for attention isn’t new to them. (Washington Post)
- More babies are getting into your stash. Infant overdoses on cannabis from edibles increased 1,375% since 2017. (BBC)