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Trial for Clinton campaign lawyer begins: A lawyer for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign who is charged with lying to the FBI sought to “manipulate” federal law enforcement to create an “October surprise” in the final weeks of the presidential race, a prosecutor alleged Tuesday at the start of his trial. Michael Sussmann is accused of misleading the FBI during a 2016 meeting by telling the bureau’s top lawyer that he wasn’t acting on behalf of a particular client when he presented computer data that he said might connect Russia to then-candidate Donald Trump.

Highway deaths surge: Nearly

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43,000 people were killed on U.S. roads last year, the highest number in 16 years. A 10.5% jump over 2020 was the largest percentage increase since the U.S. began collecting data in 1975.

Musk wants data on bots: Tesla 3 CEO Elon Musk says his deal to buy Twitter can’t move forward unless the company proves that less than 5% of its accounts are fake or spam. Musk spent much of Monday in a back-and-forth with Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, who posted several tweets explaining efforts to fight bots and that Twitter has consistently estimated that less than 5% of its accounts are fake.

Ex-lawmaker to plead guilty:

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Former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, a Florida Democrat whose initial conviction in a charity and tax fraud case was tossed out by an appeals court, will plead guilty before a second trial, according to court documents filed Tuesday.

Sri Lanka in turmoil: Srilanka’s 5 governing party defeated a move in Parliament to urgently debate a motion that would censure President Gotabaya Rajapaksa for the nation’s economic crisis. Rajapaksa’s refusal to resign has roiled Sri Lanka, which is on the brink of bankruptcy and unable to import basic supplies, medicines and fuel.