QUICK HITS

1 Desantis kicks off presidential campaign in Iowa:

Florida Gov. Ron Desantis is kicking off his presidential campaign in Iowa at the start of a busy week that will take him to 12 cities in three states. Desantis is testing his pitch as the most formidable Republican challenger to former President Donald Trump. The Florida governor’s two-day trip to the leadoff caucus state starting Tuesday comes after a stumbling online announcement last week that formalized his longanticipated entry into the growing Republican 2024 field. 2 Biden attends Mass to mark

8 years since son’s death: President Joe Biden is marking one of the saddest days of his life, the death of his son Beau. Biden and his wife, Jill, prayed for Beau Biden on Tuesday during a special Mass at a Roman Catholic church near the president’s home in Wilmington, Delaware. The first lady carried a bouquet of flowers. Beau Biden was 46 years old when he died of brain cancer in 2015. He’s the son of Joe Biden and his late first wife, Neilia.

CDC: Sick restaurant workers 3 cause large percentage of illness:

Food workers who showed up while sick or contagious were linked to about 40% of restaurant food poisoning outbreaks with a known cause between 2017 and 2019, federal health officials said Tuesday. Norovirus and salmonella, germs that can cause severe illness, were the most common cause of 800 outbreaks, which encompassed 875 restaurants and were reported by 25 state and local health departments. Woman who threatened Pelosi 4 during Capitol riot gets 2 years: A Pennsylvania restaurant owner who screamed death threats directed at then-house Speaker Nancy Pelosi while storming the U.S. Capitol was sentenced Tuesday to more than two years in prison. Pauline Bauer was near Pelosi’s office suite Jan. 6, 2021, when she yelled at police officers to bring out the California Democrat so the mob of Donald Trump supporters could hang her. In January, U.S. District Judge Trevor Mcfadden convicted Bauer of riot-related charges after hearing trial testimony without a jury.

5 South Carolina gas station owner charged with murder:

A South Carolina gas station owner has been charged with murder in the death of a 14-year-old boy whom he allegedly chased from the store and shot in the back. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott says station owner Rick Chow incorrectly suspected that Cyrus Carmack-belton had shoplifted water from the Shell station.