Ferguson: Two St. Louis County police officers were shot during demonstrations outside the Ferguson, Mo. police station last night. The shooting broke what had been a night of tense but mostly peaceful protests in the hours after Ferguson’s police chief resigned.

One officer was shot in the shoulder and the other was hit in the face, but the injuries were described as not life threatening.

The shots were believed to have come from a nearby hilltop and police are searching for the gunman.

Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson announced he would resign in the wake of a federal report that said he ran a racist department that acted as funding mill for the city. He is the sixth Ferguson official to leave.

You’ve Got Mail: The Associated Press yesterday sued the State Department to force the release of Hillary Clinton’s emails during her time as Secretary of State. Frustrated by the lack of response to Freedom of Information requests, some of them five years old, the AP has gone to court.

The State Department says it’s swamped with FOIA requests, but they didn’t even have the requested Clinton emails because the former secretary of state used a private server during her time at State. About 30,000 emails have only recently been turned over, but the State Department doesn’t have access to Clinton’s private domain to be certain they got everything related to State business.

The AP’s lawsuit says, “State’s failure to ensure that Secretary Clinton’s governmental emails were retained and preserved by the agency, and its failure timely to seek out and search those emails in response to AP’s requests, indicate at the very least that State has not engaged in the diligent, good-faith search that FOIA requires.”

Permawar: In a grinding fight Iraqi government troops claim they have entered the city of Tikrit from both the north and south and now are fighting in the streets. They say they have taken 75 percent of the city in what would be the biggest victory so far against Islamic State militants.

Yesterday ISIS fighters set off 21 car bombs in the city of Ramadi as their fight against government troops appears to be growing more desperate. Iraqi forces said they were able to ward off most of the car bombs and keep casualties to a minimum.

Diplomacy: Speaking to the Senate Foreign relations Committee yesterday, Secy. of State John Kerry slammed the letter 47 Republican senators sent to Iran trying to derail nuclear negotiations. “It purports to tell the world that if you want to have any confidence in your dealings with America, they have to negotiate with 535 members of Congress,” Kerry said. “That is both untrue and a profoundly bad suggestion to make.”

Arkansas freshman Sen. Tom Cotton, who wrote the letter other senators signed, said Tuesday that the letter is “about stopping Iran from getting a nuclear deal.”

The Nemtsov Affair: A Chechen suspect in the murder of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was tortured to get his confession, according to a member of the Kremlin council on human rights. Andrei Babushkin said he visited Zaur Dadayev and four other suspects in prison and all of them had injuries inflicted after their arrest. Investigators immediately accused Babushkin of hindering their case.

The White House Mess: Two senior Secret Service officers have been reassigned to desk jobs because they crashed a car into a White House barrier after a night of revelry at a retirement party. The two were responding to a report of a suspicious package. Secret Service officers at the scene wanted to arrest the two, but were over ruled by a supervisor.

Emo: Facebook this week removed its emoticon for “feeling fat” after receiving a petition from 16,000 users who say the faticon makes them feel bad. Facebook users are still free to feel, excited, pained, aggravated, fantastic, blissful, blah and meh.

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