Today's five.

When your original Senate candidate exits over sexual assault allegations four months before the election, you hold a convention and pick the guy who literally cuts down trees for a living. Troy Jackson, former Maine Senate president and actual lumberjack, won the Democratic nomination in Bangor on Saturday by the kind of margin that suggests nobody really disagreed. He now gets 100 days to beat Susan Collins, one of the more durable Republicans in the Senate. The Guardian led with the cinematic backstory; Bloomberg led with the word "must-win." Both are correct.

A quarter million people don't evacuate unless something has genuinely gone wrong. Wildfires are burning close enough to Madrid and Bordeaux — cities with a combined population of over 8 million — that 70,000 people in Madrid's own neighborhoods have been told to leave, and residents still inside are keeping their windows shut against smoke thick enough to taste. At least one person has died, in the Spanish town of Manises. The NYT led with the international aid response; CBS led with the body count. The fires remain uncontrolled.

The mayor of New York grabbed an ice cream bar to announce a rent freeze for 2 million stabilized apartments, and that image is doing a lot of work. The freeze affects landlords whose insurance, labor, fuel, and property taxes are all still going up — just not their income. One landlord's summary: "the math just doesn't math." The Rent Guidelines Board called it a zero percent increase, which is technically accurate the same way "the car stopped" is technically accurate when it hits a wall. Two million tenants now have frozen rents in buildings that may not be able to cover their own operating costs.

The FBI's "Most Wanted Fraudsters" list is new, and it's already working. Elaine Escoe, 41, allegedly helped lift $32 million in COVID relief funds, skipped her federal court date, fled to Jamaica, and started going by "Harley Newman" — which is either a brilliant alias or the name of a regional insurance agent, depending on your standards. Jamaican authorities caught her after a tip the FBI had put $150,000 on the table for. She's back in South Florida now, facing wire fraud and money laundering charges. The pandemic ended. The consequences, apparently, did not.

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