Politics today spans legacy, tension, and unsettled contests. In the United States, tributes are pouring in for Barney Frank, the longtime Massachusetts congressman who helped reshape both gay rights and financial regulation, dying at 86 after a final stretch in hospice in Maine. Abroad, security nerves were laid bare in Lithuania, where an air alert over a suspected unidentified drone near the Belarus border sent President Gitanas Nausėda, lawmakers, and residents into shelters and briefly disrupted flights in Vilnius, underscoring the Baltic region’s fraught proximity to wider NATO-Russia tensions. Back in Georgia, Republicans face more intraparty sorting: the Senate primary will continue in a June runoff between Mike Collins and Derek Dooley, while the GOP governor’s race heads to another round between Burt Jones and Rick Jackson. And in Washington’s diplomatic world, Britain’s deputy ambassador James Roscoe has abruptly left his post without a public explanation.