• Kristin Davis, who once had an escort service and ran for New York governor, is set to testify this week before a grand jury. We looked at her possible connection to the Russia investigation.

A record fire, and 16 more

• Nearly 600,000 acres burned. More than 13,000 firefighters at work. More than 2,300 members of the National Guard called in.

The numbers, however, don’t fully tell the story of the complexity of the firefighting effort in California, where nearly three times as many acres have been scorched as in the same period last year.

• “It’s unprecedented to have so many sustained demands for so many resources over such a short amount of time,” one official said.

War without end

• The conflict in Afghanistan has endured without a clear exit strategy for almost 17 years, across three U.S. presidencies.

There is also the war in Iraq, which started in 2003 and continues in a different form over the Syrian border.

More than three million Americans have served in uniform in these wars, and nearly 7,000 of them have died.