QUICK HITS

1 Corruption conviction: A court in Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday convicted the country’s former president on corruption charges and sentenced him to 11 years and two months in prison. Almazbek Atambayev, who was in office from 2011 to 2017, was stripped of the immunity from prosecution that he enjoyed as a former president and arrested last year on a slew of charges, including corruption and the expropriation of property.

2 Preparing subpoena: The House Judiciary Committee is preparing to subpoena Attorney General William Barr to testify before the panel early next month, setting up the latest showdown between congressional Democrats and the Trump administration over its handling of the Justice Department. Democrats want Barr to testify on July 2 as part of a broader investigation into what they warn is dangerous politicization at the agency.

Fireworks crackdown: Mayor 3 Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday that New York is launching a crackdown on the illegal use and distribution of fireworks, after complaints about a nightly cacophony flooded the city’s help and emergency telephone lines.

Suicide hotline: Federal 4 regulators will vote in July on whether to make “988” the number to reach a suicide prevention hotline. The Federal Communications Commission says phone service providers will have until July 2022 to implement the new number, if the measure is approved in July, as expected.

Somaliattack: Twopeople were 5 killed after a suicide bomber detonated his explosives outside Turkey’s largest overseas military base in Mogadishu on Tuesday, Somali officials said, the latest reminder of Somalia’s struggle to curb the deadly attacks that have haunted the country for years.