Today's five.

Trump went two-for-two on Tuesday night, except for the one he went one-for-two on. Rick Jackson beat Trump-backed Brian Jones in Georgia's GOP governor runoff — a businessman nobody was talking about a year ago just cleared the first hurdle toward the statehouse. Meanwhile, Trump's Senate pick Mike Collins won his Georgia runoff, setting up a fall matchup against Jon Ossoff in one of the most watched Senate races in the country. Politico noted Trump had privately questioned whether Collins could win before endorsing him anyway. That gap between what he said and what he did is doing a lot of work here.

Shutting down a federal agency is hard. Moving its most important functions somewhere else and calling it reform is apparently quite easy. The Education Department announced Tuesday that special education programs go to HHS and civil rights enforcement goes to the DOJ — two of its core responsibilities, relocated. This follows ten earlier interagency transfers. NC Newsline and Wisconsin Examiner called it "dismantling." The Hill called it taking oversight "away." NPR focused on what IDEA guarantees students with disabilities. The department still technically exists. It just does less every month, which is one way to close something.

Recusing yourself "out of an abundance of caution" is judicial for "this got complicated." Eleanor Ross, a federal judge already disciplined for having sex with a police officer in her chambers and lying about it, was also flagged for attending a Fani Willis-linked partisan event — which made her assignment to a Georgia election records case awkward in a very specific way. The DOJ raised impartiality concerns. Ross agreed, citing potential perception of bias. Reason led with her own language about appearing to favor Willis's position. The Guardian led with the chambers incident. Both are technically the same story.

Two brush fires have been burning through west Miami-Dade for back-to-back days, and at this point the smoke has drifted far enough to trigger an air quality alert in Broward County — which is not where the fire is. More than 4,500 acres burned overall. At least one business had to evacuate. NBC 6 framed it as a localized emergency; WSVN led with the second-day persistence and the dual-fire detail, which changes the story from "incident" to "situation." Florida in fire season is its own specific genre of news, and this one isn't out yet.

Atlantic hurricane season technically started June 1st, but the Gulf Coast didn't get the memo until now. A low-pressure system is tracking toward Texas and Louisiana this week, and the National Hurricane Center says it has enough going on to potentially become the first named storm of the season. "Potentially" is doing real work in that sentence — these systems organize slowly and fall apart fast. What's not uncertain: significant rainfall is coming regardless of what name, if any, it earns. NPR and Georgia Public Broadcasting ran nearly identical coverage, which usually means the forecasters aren't hedging much.