Tonight, the Texas-sized political battle with leaders calling for lawmakers who have left the state to be arrested to bring them back to vote.

As Republican leaders look to gerrymander congressional maps, Democratic lawmakers flee the state to delay the vote.

Why some leaders are calling for Democrats who are at a state to be hunted down and arrested.

As some Democratic governors vowed to do what Republicans are doing in Texas, wildfire season

blazing out west in California, Colorado, and Canada.

Thousands of acres burned as crews take on wind-blown ridges of fire and even smoke tornadoes.

And now the skies over some of the nation's biggest cities filled with smoke and haze,

even shutting down flights in Boston as heat advisories mean danger for parts of the U.S.

This just in, the Attorney General calling for a grand jury to look into the Russia investigation

during the President's first term are former Obama officials, the targets.

Also tonight, the graphic images of Israeli hostages in Gaza.

We talked to one man's family about hope to return him after hundreds of days in captivity, and why leaked comments from a top U.S.

envoy may preview a new strategy of dealing with Hamas. The Montana manhunt for a suspect and

army veteran federal officials say killed four people in a small town bar. The new headline on

Luigi Mangione, why he was just granted a laptop in prison

and grandma's excellent adventure,

how her family brought a whole new meaning

to companion ticket travel

ahead of the trip of a lifetime.

Nightly News starts right now.

This is NBC Nightly News with Tom Yamas, reporting tonight from Miami.

And good evening tonight from Miami, one of the hottest places in the country in more ways

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