“My hope will always be to allow Kobe’s fans to get and wear his products,” Vanessa Bryant said. ” I will continue to fight for that. Kobe’s products sell out in seconds. That says everything.” Source

A grocery store employee was killed in a shooting at a Stop & Shop on New York’s Long Island Tuesday morning, police said. Source

The president said that he is “praying the verdict is the right verdict, which is — I think it’s overwhelming, in my view.” Source

This week on the Trump trail, the candidate reacted to a baby crying in the audience of a Virginia rally. Though some media outlets wrote that Trump threw the baby out of the event, a Washington Post fact check notes that the mother left willingly because she felt it was “the considerate thing to do.” Trump earned a rare “Geppetto checkmark” for getting his facts straight. Source

With primaries around the corner, should Republicans in Congress support GOP nominee Donald Trump? Ron Brownstein of the Atlantic, Michael Duffy of Time Magazine, Ed O’Keefe of the Washington Post, and USA Today’s Susan Page spot order amid the campaign chaos. Source

The Washington Post’s David Ignatius weighs in on the United States’ poorly-timed payment of $400 million to Iran. “The optics are terrible,” Ignatius says. The journalist adds that while the U.S. serves as the “north star” of the global economy, Trump has begun to dim that light. Source

Actor Hugh Grant has starred in countless films. In his latest, he plays a suave character alongside Meryl Streep in “Florence Foster Jenkins.” So it was a big surprise when he told our Tracy Smith he was a nervous wreck before stepping in front of the camera. Source

In the 1980s, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe became a prominent figure in New York City’s sub-culture of artists and performers. His younger sibling, Edward, a budding photographer himself, grew up idolizing his mysterious and exciting older brother. But the two parted ways in a nasty split, which sent Edward into a downward spiral motored by drug addiction. He rebounded, and is now creating his own artistic legacy. Serena Altschul reports. Source

A statue of Lucille Ball in her hometown of Celoron, New York, caused many to gasp when it was unveiled in 2009. Locals dubbed the bronze sculpture “Scary Lucy.” A new statue was unveiled on what would have been Ball’s 105th birthday, as seen on Buffalo.com. Vinita Nair has more. Source

In New Jersey, dozens of people were hurt when a railing collapsed during a concert by Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa. Forty-two people were injured during the accident, but everyone has been released from the hospital. DeMarco Morgan has more on the show-stopping incident. Source