JUDY WOODRUFF: In the day's
other news: Wall Street rallied
after the Fed's announcement.

The Dow Jones industrial
average gained 303 points, 1
percent, to close at 30668.

The Nasdaq rose 2.5 percent.
The S&P 500 added 1.5 percent.

President Biden pushed oil
companies today to produce
more gasoline and cut

prices. He wrote to industry
executives, restating
his charge that they
are profiteering. And he

said -- quote -- "The crunch
that families are facing
deserves immediate action."

The industry, in turn,
blamed Mr. Biden's policies
for curbing production.

A white man accused of fatally
shooting 10 Black victims at a
supermarket in Buffalo New York

will face federal hate
crime counts. Payton
Gendron was charged today.

It came as U.S. Attorney
General Merrick Garland
visited the memorial for
the victims in Buffalo.

He said there's a moral
obligation to act.

MERRICK GARLAND, U.S. Attorney
General: In fear that they
will go to work or shop at a

grocery store and will
be attacked by someone
who hates them because of
the color of their skin.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Garland
did not rule out seeking
the death penalty.

Gendron already faces
a mandatory life prison
term if he is convicted
on state charges.

The Michigan police officer
charged with murdering
Patrick Lyoya was fired today.

Christopher Schurr shot
Lyoya in the back of the head
after a struggle in April.

The Grand Rapids police
chief recommended last week
that Schurr be dismissed.

A federal grand jury has
indicted the California
man accused of plotting
to murder Supreme Court

Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Nicholas Roske was arrested last
week near Kavanaugh's home in

Maryland. A conviction
could carry a maximum
sentence of life in prison.

There are new questions
about Georgia Republican
Congressman Barry Loudermilk

leading a tour of the
U.S. Capitol Complex one
day before the January
6 attack. The January 6

Committee released video
today showing some in
the group photographing
stairwells and tunnels. The

committee chair suggested it
might be suspicious. Loudermilk
said it was entirely innocent.

REP. BARRY LOUDERMILK (R-GA):
To go to that stairwell,
there's a golden eagle sconce

that's on the wall. That's what
he was taking a picture off. I
mean, there -- these are folks

who have never been
to Washington, D.C.,
and they were here to
visit their congressman.

JUDY WOODRUFF: The Capitol
Police have said there
is nothing suspicious on
the video. The committee

says one man on the tour
was outside the Capitol
the next day making threats
against top Democrats.

A federal judge in Washington
convicted a man and his son
today for January 6 crimes.

A widely seen photograph shows
the father, Kevin Seefried,
carrying a Confederate Flag.

He and his son were found
guilty of obstructing
an official proceeding
and disorderly conduct.

The nation's top pandemic
expert, Dr. Anthony
Fauci, has come down
with COVID. The National

Institutes of Health said
today that Fauci has mild
symptoms. He is 81 and has been

vaccinated and boosted twice.
Meanwhile, FDA advisers
endorsed Moderna and Pfizer

vaccinations for children under
5. Shots could begin on Monday
if they win final approval.

The United States has
announced its largest military

aid package yet for Ukraine.
The $1 billion package
includes rocket launchers

and heavy artillery. In
Brussels, U.S. Defense
Secretary Lloyd Austin

confirmed the aid and the
need to ship it to outgunned
Ukrainian fighters soon.

LLOYD AUSTIN, U.S. Secretary
of Defense: When you're in the
fight, you can never get enough,

and you can never get it
quick enough. So -- but,
having said all that,

we're going to work hard to
make sure we're doing everything
humanly possible. We're

going to continue to move
heaven and earth to get them
the capability that they need.

JUDY WOODRUFF: In Ukraine,
Russian forces kept
up a heavy bombardment
in Severodonetsk after

Ukrainian troops rejected
an ultimatum to surrender.

Back in this country,
extreme heat gripped a
swathe of states from Florida

to the Great Lakes for a second
day. Forecasters warned that
readings in the 90s and higher

could generate severe
thunderstorms tonight. The heat
could begin to ease tomorrow.

Record flooding this weekend and
around Yellowstone National Park

may have altered the
landscape there for good. New
images show a local river

shifted its course after a
torrent caused by heavy rain.
The water also washed out roads,

damaged homes and drove
thousands of visitors
away. Video from Sunday

showed a rockslide striking
one car as it left the
park. No one was hurt.

And President Biden has
issued new executive
orders on LGBTQ rights.

Among other things, they
aim to discourage so-called
conversion therapy to change

sexual orientation or
gender identity. It's a
response to state laws
seen as being anti-LGBTQ.

Still to come on the
"NewsHour": what parents
need to know about the newly
approved COVID vaccines

for children under 5
years old; the U.K. tries
to push ahead with its
controversial plan to deport

asylum seekers to Rwanda;
why a Minnesota bank

building ranks among the
United States' most significant
architecture; plus much more.