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Burt Jones, who was endorsed by Donald Trump, has lost in Georgia’s gubernatorial run-off to billionaire Rick Jackson, but candidates backed by the US president secured Senate nominations in Alabama, Georgia and Oklahoma in the primary elections on Tuesday.Voters also decided the party candidates for the congressional race in California and a mayoral primary in Washington, DC, as the United States gears up for November’s midterm elections, seen by some as a referendum on Trump’s second term.Here’s who won and lost the primaries – and how Trump-endorsed candidates fared.Supporters cheer on US Senate Republican candidate Mike Collins (R-GA) during a run-off election night party on June 16, 2026, in Jackson, Georgia [Jessica McGowan/AFP]Who won in Georgia?Georgia attracted a lot of media attention over the fight between Jones and Jackson. Though Trump-backed Jones lost in the governor’s race, voters in the state elected the US president’s pick for the Senate primary.Mike Collins, who was endorsed by Trump just a few days before the ballots were cast, won the Republican Senate run-off in Georgia.Collins is now set to face Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff in what has been touted as one of the most competitive midterm campaigns in the country. Collins defeated Republican Governor Brian Kemp-endorsed Derek Dooley, a former college football coach.In the run-off for governor, Jones lost despite a yearlong endorsement from Trump. The president reiterated his support last week, praising Jones’s “Courage and Wisdom” in a social media post.Jackson had spent at least $100m out of his pocket, as compared with nearly $30m spent by Jones in total, during the campaign.Jackson will now face Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former Atlanta mayor, in November in another pre-eminent battleground state.Campaign signs are seen at a polling place at the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library during the DC primary elections on June 16, 2026, in Washington, DC [Brendan Smialowski/AFP]Who won the Alabama primary?Alabama brought good news for Trump, where he had successfully backed Barry Moore, a three-term congressman who has promised to be “a warrior for President Trump’s ‘America First’ agenda” if elected to the Senate.Moore defeated former Navy SEAL Jared Hudson, who presented himself as a Washington outsider.Alabama is a Republican stronghold, and the GOP primary victor is expected to prevail in November.He will face lawyer Everett Wess, who defeated small business owner Dakarai Larriett in the Democratic run-off.Who won the Oklahoma primaries?Oklahoma’s Republican primary for governor also tested Trump’s endorsement.The president weighed in late, throwing his support two weeks ago to former state Senator Mike Mazzei, without a clear frontrunner in the field.Trump’s choice secured a spot in a run-off on August 25, finishing nearly even with Attorney General Gentner Drummond.In the Senate race, Republican Kevin Hern, who represents Oklahoma’s First Congressional District, outpaced the four other Republican candidates. Hern was endorsed by President Trump and captured 63.7 percent of the vote.Democratic results are yet to be called.Oklahoma voters also rejected much-debated State Question 832, which could have raised the state’s minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 an hour. More than 56 percent of voters opposed it.Supporters cheer on US Senate Republican candidate, Representative Mike Collins (R-GA) during a run-off election night party on June 16, 2026, in Jackson, Georgia [Jessica McGowan/AFP]Who won in California?Voters in California are looking to replace Democrat Eric Swalwell, who resigned from the House and dropped his bid for California governor, after a woman alleged he had sexually assaulted her twice.Democratic state lawmaker Aisha Wahab advanced in the special election in California to replace Representative Swalwell. Wahab, a state senator who focused her campaign message on reducing housing costs, goes on to the August 18 run-off, which will det

Scientists say they've developed brain-decoding technology that could help people who use hearing assistance devices pick out one voice in a crowded room — a longstanding challenge for hearing aids. Matteo Farinella/Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute hide caption toggle caption Matteo Farinella/Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute Imagine a crowded room. It's a chaos of sound, teeming with indistinct voices. Scientists call this the cocktail party problem. To overcome it, most people are able to focus on a single speaker's voice, which cues the brain to amplify that sound and turn down the rest. For people who use hearing aids, though, that process becomes a lot harder. Now, in the journal Nature Neuroscience, a team describes a solution that decodes a person's brain waves to choose which voice their hearing system will amplify. It amounts to a "brain-controlled hearing aid," says Nima Mesgarani, an author of the paper and an associate professor at Columbia University who runs the school's Neural Acoustic Processing Lab. The new approach could lead to better hearing technology, including hearing aids, assistive listening devices and cochlear implants. But so far, the approach has been tested only on four people with typical hearing, says Josh McDermott, who runs the Laboratory for Computational Audition at MIT and was not involved in the study. Whether the system will work as well for people with hearing loss remains an "open question," he says. How the brain filters sound The new research is based on a discovery made in 2012 by Mesgarani and Dr. Eddie Chang, a neurosurgeon at the University of California, San Francisco. The finding helps explain how the brains of people with typical hearing are able to solve the cocktail party problem by selecting one voice to amplify while filtering out others. Mesgarani and Chang showed that the key is a distinct pattern of brain waves in the auditory cortex, which processes sounds. "When you look at the brain of a listener at the cocktail party," Mesgarani says, "what you see is that these brain waves are tracking only the sound that [the listener] is focusing on, and not the other sources." The pattern of activity "gives us a signature," Mesgarani says. "We can look at someone's brain and decide, oh yeah, this is the source they want to listen to." So the team set out to see whether they could use that neural signature to improve hearing systems. The effort was led by Vishal Choudhari, who was a graduate student in Mesgarani's lab at the time. He's currently a research scientist at a startup working on next-generation hearing technologies. The team did an experiment with four people who were in the hospital for epilepsy treatment. The participants, who had typical hearing, already had electrodes in their brains as part of their treatment. That allowed the team to monitor signals coming from their auditory cortex. Mesgarani says the next step was to simulate a cocktail party at the bedside. "They have two loudspeakers in front of them," he says. "Each one is playing a different conversation." At first, the competing conversations were played at the same volume. That left the participants struggling to comprehend either one. Then, Mesgarani says, the team switched on a system that automatically adjusted the volume based on the person's brain waves. "If the person wants to hear 'conversation one,' we make that louder and we make everything else softer," Mesgarani says. The system correctly detected which conversation the person wanted to hear up to 90% of the time. And when it was switched on, "their comprehension went up and their listening effort [went] down," Mesgarani says. A smarter hearing device The system might be less accurate when reading the brain waves of people with hearing loss, McDermott says, because the signal is weaker. But he says it's worth trying because even the most advanced hearing aids can't focus on a specific voice. "They h

Brooklyn Nets center Jason Collins dribbles the ball during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Los Angeles Lakers, Feb. 23, 2014, in Los Angeles. Mark J. Terrill/AP hide caption toggle caption Mark J. Terrill/AP Jason Collins, the NBA's first openly gay player who went on to become a pioneer for inclusion and an ambassador for the league, has died after an eight-month battle with an aggressive form of a brain tumor, his family announced Tuesday. Collins spent 13 years as a player in the league for six different franchises. He revealed in 2013 that he was gay, an announcement that came toward the end of his playing career. Collins had been diagnosed with Stage 4 glioblastoma, which has an extremely low survival rate. He was 47. "Jason changed lives in unexpected ways and was an inspiration to all who knew him and to those who admired him from afar," Collins' family said in a statement released through the NBA. "We are grateful for the outpouring of love and prayers over the past eight months and for the exceptional medical care Jason received from his doctors and nurses. Our family will miss him dearly." Just last week, Collins received the inaugural Bill Walton Global Champion Award at the Green Sports Alliance Summit. He was too ill to attend and his twin brother, former NBA player Jarron Collins, accepted for him. "I told my brother this before I came here: He's the bravest, strongest man I've ever known," Jarron Collins said while accepting that award. Jason Collins averaged 3.6 points and 3.7 rebounds in his career. He helped the New Jersey Nets reach two NBA Finals and in his best season averaged 6.4 points and 6.1 rebounds for them in 2004-05. Brooklyn Nets center Jason Collins warms up before an NBA basketball game in New Orleans, March 24, 2014. Jonathan Bachman/AP hide caption toggle caption Jonathan Bachman/AP "Jason Collins' impact and influence extended far beyond basketball as he helped make the NBA, WNBA and larger sports community more inclusive and welcoming for future generations," NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said. "He exemplified outstanding leadership and professionalism throughout his 13-year NBA career and in his dedicated work as an NBA Cares Ambassador. Jason will be remembered not only for breaking barriers, but also for the kindness and humanity that defined his life and touched so many others. "On behalf of the NBA, I send my heartfelt condolences to Jason's husband, Brunson, and his family, friends and colleagues across our leagues." Jason Collins revealed his sexuality in a first-person account for Sports Illustrated in April 2013. He was a free agent at the time, said he wanted to keep playing, and went on to play in 22 games with Brooklyn the following season. "If I had my way, someone else would have already done this," he wrote at that time. "Nobody has, which is why I'm raising my hand." His decision was widely lauded, with star players such as Kobe Bryant quickly speaking out in support of Collins. There was even support from the White House and then-former President Bill Clinton — whose daughter, Chelsea, went to Stanford with Collins. At Stanford, Collins was roommates with someone who was part of another American political dynasty, that being Joe Kennedy III, who spent eight years in Congress representing Massachusetts. Collins, in the piece for Sports Illustrated, wrote that he realized he needed to go public about his sexuality when Kennedy walked in Boston's gay pride parade in 2012 — but Collins couldn't do the same. Until then, Collins kept his feelings about gay rights close to the vest. He wore jersey No. 98 for the majority of his final three playing stints with Boston, Washington and Brooklyn — a nod to the year that Matthew Shepard, a gay college student in Wyoming, was killed. He also wore 46 in one game for the Nets, since it was the only jersey the team had available when he signed. Collins made nearly 61% of his shots in his career a