Today's edition of quick hits:
* Oh my: "The highly contagious norovirus appears to have hit the Republican National Convention. A dozen California Republican Party staff members, who arrived last week in Ohio ahead of the state's delegates, have fallen ill with the virus, said Jim Brulte, chairman of the state GOP."
* Turkey: "The Turkish authorities extended their purge of state institutions on Tuesday, suspending more than 15,000 employees of the education ministry for suspected links to a failed military coup last week."
* Tragic violence in Kansas: "A Kansas City, Kan., police captain who was shot Tuesday afternoon has died, authorities announced at a press conference. Capt. Robert Melton was shot at 22nd and Haskell in Kansas City, Kan. and by 2:45 p.m. one person was in custody and police had detained another person."
* Someone wants attention again: "North Korea fired three ballistic missiles on Tuesday which flew between 300-360 miles into the sea off its east coast, South Korea's military said, the latest in a series of provocative moves by the isolated country."
* Climate crisis: "This June has joined every other month of this year so far in setting an all-time monthly record for global temperatures, according to two separate federal science agencies -- though the globe was not as extremely warm last month as it was earlier in the year."
* VW: "Three attorneys general on Tuesday directly challenged Volkswagen's defense over its emissions deception, calling the decision to thwart pollution tests an orchestrated fraud that lasted more than a decade, involved dozens of engineers and managers and reached deep into the company's boardroom."
* In his mind, he may believe this is true, but in reality, I seriously doubt it: "In a radio interview about whether he might serve in Donald Trump's administration, Ben Carson said he was offered the post of surgeon general by President Obama's administration."
Anything to add? Consider this an open thread.