After a week of voting, Russians on Wednesday approved a slate of more than 200 amendments that included maintaining the definition of marriage as between one man and one woman and an emphasis on “a belief in God.” Voters also said President Vladimir Putin could run for two more six-year terms after his current stint ends in 2024. After more than two decades in power as either president or prime minister, Putin could stay in office until as late as 2036, when he would turn 83.

It took a week for Kentucky to sort through mail-in ballots from its Democratic Senate primary on June 23. Media outlets on Tuesday projected that former Marine pilot Amy McGrath squeaked out a victory by less than 3 percentage points over state legislator Charles Booker, who had won the endorsements of notable Democrats like U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.

A New York Times report that Moscow offered terrorists in Afghanistan money to kill U.S. soldiers was “nonsense” that showed the “low intellectual abilities of the propagandists of American intelligence,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said. It’s unknown whether the alleged scheme directly resulted in any American soldiers’ deaths, the Times reported, citing anonymous officials.

WASHINGTON—Demanding hospitals publish the costs of basic medical procedures in a user-friendly manner does not violate the First Amendment, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Carl J. Nichols, a nominee of President Donald Trump, upheld a new federal requirement that hospitals and insurance companies must make public the negotiated prices of common healthcare services. The American Hospital Association, an industry trade group, plans to appeal the decision.

A Tuesday morning quake near the southern coast of Mexico measured 7.4 on the Richter scale, shook buildings more than 300 miles away in Mexico City, and shattered windows and destroyed houses in many places, killing two people. The U.S. Geological Survey said about 2 million people felt “strong or moderate” shaking from the earthquake, whose epicenter was near the resort town of Huatulco.

WASHINGTON—Demonstrators climbed on top of the statue of President Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square across from the White House on Monday night and unsuccessfully tried to pull it off its pedestal. Police used pepper spray to disperse the protesters. Activists have criticized Jackson’s brutal tactics against Native Americans during his presidency in the early 1800s.

Just before NASCAR’s first race after banning Confederate flags at its tracks, a crew member found a noose in the garage of the driver who pushed for the change. Bubba Wallace is the only full-time African American driver in the racing organization. The FBI, the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, and federal prosecutors are investigating the Sunday incident at Wallace’s garage stall at the Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama.