On this version of Hot off the Wire: BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Republican U.S.

Senate candidate Tim Sheehy embraced his status as an outsider who came to Montana to start a business during the first debate in a race that could tip the balance of power in the Senate. Three-term Democrat Sen. Jon Tester declared Sheehy “part of the problem” amid a housing shortage and rising property taxes.

BRUSSELS (AP) — Far-right parties rattled the traditional powers in the European Union with major gains in parliamentary seats, dealing an especially humiliating defeat to French President Emmanuel Macron, who called snap legislative elections. Some ballots in the vote for the European Parliament were still being counted Monday, but the outcome showed the 27-nation bloc’s parliament membership has clearly shifted to the right. WILMINGTON, Del.

(AP) — Hunter Biden's family has gone to great lengths to support him as he stands trials for lying on a federal gun purchase form when he said he didn't have a drug problem. Jill Biden has been a regular presence in the federal courtroom in Delaware, and other family members have attended. In other news: Some nationalities escape President Joe Biden's sweeping asylum ban because deportation flights are scarce.

Apple expected to enter AI race with ambitions to overtake the early leaders. Large chunk of Wyoming's Teton Pass road collapses; unclear how quickly it can be rebuilt. A World War II veteran just married his bride near Normandy's D-Day.