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Our fifth most popular piece was Pepe Escobar’s column on the war and the unprecedented size of the funeral services for Iran’s assassinated Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, which brought out some 40 million mourners, representing the largest public gathering in all of human history.

I happened upon this old post. My comment was inappropriate and in poor taste. I apologize for making it.

I hope the Trump administration will reduce the leakers and their co-conspirators in the press to a piece of bread. The press has had delusions of grandeur for far too long. People in the administration who leak to the press may as well be leaking to a terrorist group. They should all be punished accordingly.

Generally, people who are respectful and cooperative do not get killed by police. In nearly every case, suspects/ detainees, have tried to flee, resist, grabbed for the officers weapon or in some other way turned a routine situation into a confrontational one. Granted, there are some stupid, incompetent officers, usually DEI hires. Lot of good people in law enforcement. A face full of pepper spray or a beat down is a good treatment for "F the police" syndrome.

I just learned bout this in a private message. Bonney and family members have long contributed to Club Adventist. Our prayers go with them.

Houston ICE shooting A week after a 52-year-old man was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Houston, the FBI filed a warrant application saying the agency has cause to believe there were illegal drugs in the vehicle he was driving. While not unheard of, it is unusual for an FBI search warrant to be publicly available during an active and high-profile investigation of this nature. Read more.

New Brazil tariffs The US plans to impose a 25% tariff on some Brazilian imports, after a yearlong investigation concluded that the country had engaged in “unfair” trade practices that harm Americans. The tariffs are set to go into effect on July 22, but the US says it remains open to negotiating with Brazil to resolve the issues. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said there was “no justification” for the “illegal and arbitrarily imposed tariffs.” Read more.

America already tried permanent daylight saving time. It lasted less than a year. Could it work now? NEW YORK (AP) — It’s an idea whose time, as it were, may have come — again. https://apnews.com/article/daylight-saving-time-change-permanent-6b5adef13d13862933ce400af3572f32?

US expands strikes into northern Iran The United States intensified its strikes on Iran early Thursday, hitting targets further north as American forces also fired on a ship the U.S. accused of trying to break its naval blockade on the Islamic Republic. Iran retaliated with missile and drone fire targeting U.S. allies in the region before dawn and warned its attacks may escalate. Read more. Why this matters: American strikes also reached into areas around Iran’s capital, Tehran, for the first time in this latest round of violence, showing a widening set of targets. Days of back-and-forth strikes by the U.S. and Iran across the Middle East — and renewed threats to the Strait of Hormuz — have shredded the interim deal to end the Iran war and could tip the region back into all-out war. RELATED COVERAGE ➤ More than half of House Democrats vote to cut Israel aid in growing split Human rights groups sue over Trump administration’s sanctions on ICC for investigations into Israel Lebanon and Israel move toward implementing withdrawal agreement, US officials say Iran school strike investigation The investigation into a US strike that hit a school in Iran has sat for months with a military command while leaders have held off on ordering a critical, standard intelligence review to help determine what happened, according to three sources familiar with the matter. Iranian state media said that 168 children and 14 adults died in the attack. Read more.

Hegseth announces new policy to test troops for low testosterone Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday that he is rolling out a new screening program for “testosterone deficiency” among troops, calling it necessary to allow them to operate at their “absolute best.” Read more. Why this matters: The move comes as other Trump administration officials have begun to advocate for men to have easier access to testosterone replacement therapies, but the messaging from Hegseth and others blends known science on the hormone with broader, and less substantiated, claims. The Pentagon did not respond to questions about what research or academic studies underpinned the move. Over the past several years, special operations troops — and specifically Navy SEALs — have come under scrutiny for their use of testosterone and similar substances to enhance performance. The death of a SEAL recruit during training in 2022 led to the discovery of substances including testosterone in his possession, and revealed far more rampant drug use among the elite program than was previously acknowledged. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, a Pennsylvania Democrat and Air Force veteran, said it “proves that Secretary Hegseth takes direction from the far corners of the manosphere.” RELATED COVERAGE ➤ Vance says Trump administration ‘screwed up’ communications around Epstein files ICE should keep making traffic stops despite recent shootings, Trump says Report: Detainees at ICE facility in Texas report frequent beatings and other human rights abuses After six years, Trump brings his election obsession to primetime at the White House CDC nominee says she won’t betray science — while declining to challenge Kennedy’s actions Trump immediately fires the new court-appointed top prosecutor in Seattle Donald Trump endorses ‘Pillow Man’ Mike Lindell for Minnesota governor New York Times files motion to quash subpoenas served on journalists over Air Force One coverage George Santos’ next gig? Reality TV show contestant US Mint produces a $1 coin bearing Trump’s face Drained Reflecting Pool reveals Trump’s ‘American flag blue’ liner is now closer to gray

Sorry, that link is blocked. Anyway, if the "issue" has to do with the NIV being a bad version, I'll keep that in mind. My wife and I read it together [gospel of John] most nights. We have both been blessed by the reading. For study purposes, I use the KJV,ESV, NRSV, NASB, and YLT, consult the OL for word meanings and word range. The Online Bible has proved to be a real blessing for study, providing all of the above plus many more with just the click of a mouse.

July 16, 2026 By Sam Sifton Good morning. President Trump came into office promising to end wars — but with no clear path forward, Iran is starting to seem like the next “forever war.” The United States and Iran traded strikes for a sixth straight day. There’s more news below. First, though, let’s go west. The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. Will Warasila for The New York Times Teddy’s place I was out in the North Dakota Badlands recently, bird-dogging for our architecture critic, Michael Kimmelman, as he took in the spectacular new $450 million Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, population 160. The library’s not a library, really. Roosevelt’s papers are scattered all over the country. It’s more of a Teddy museum. A celebratory examination of his complicated legacy, it’s raised high in, to use Michael’s words, “93,000 square feet of mass-timber and rammed-earth — a huge Hobbit house hugging the precipice of a grassy butte.” From the Theodore Roosevelt National Park next door, you can barely make the structure out on the horizon. It looks just as its architect, Craig Dykers of Snohetta, suggested at the start of the project: two pebbles under a leaf. They blend seamlessly into a beautiful landscape of banded hills and deep, eroded ravines edged with touches of green. We sat in our truck looking at it one morning, absolutely alone below a towering sky, and laughed at our luck to see it at all. Presidential libraries are having a moment, Michael notes. Barack Obama’s opened on the South Side of Chicago last month, an $850 million campus surrounding a granite monolith some have called the Obamalisk. And President Trump has said his will be in a skyscraper in downtown Miami, and home to a museum and a luxury hotel. Roosevelt’s library is in Medora because that’s where he wound up in 1884 after the near-simultaneous deaths of his wife and mother. Grief took him west and hunting and ranching in the Little Missouri River Valley brought him solace. The log cabin Roosevelt built sits at the entrance to the national park, which covers just some of the millions of acres of America he eventually preserved as parkland, sometimes at the expense of the Native Americans who lived on it. Talking with the president I’m not a Roosevelt expert and nor is Michael. He came for the building. I was just along for the ride. But the exhibits within it appeared well balanced between laudatory and honest about the 26th president’s faults. (I guess?) And we both had fun with the A.I.-powered multimedia exhibits, especially a talking hologram of Teddy himself. How often do you get to speak to a dead president? Trump, when he visited the library at the start of the month, asked 26 about the Panama Canal. Not me. I asked about his first cousin John Ellis Roosevelt, whose Long Island summer estate, Meadow Croft, sits 35 miles or so southeast from Teddy’s old home at Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay. Had the president, as a Meadow Croft docent once told me, really ridden his horse down from the North Shore one morning to visit? Hologram-Teddy was hazy on that, but he imparted some fine memories of his relationship with Cousin John and his wonderful home near the beach. Also, he called me Sam. Folks are going to line up for that. A virtual campfire at the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. Will Warasila for The New York Times Enchantment It’s not easy to get to Medora on a whim. We flew into Bismarck via Minneapolis and only barely made the connecting flight. Then it’s 130 miles, a straight shot west on Interstate 94 — two hours of driving if you follow the speed limit, which nobody does. As Michael and I made our way back to Bismarck, we slowed down and pulled off the highway at exit 72, beneath a towering steel sculpture of geese in flight. A ribbon of empty road stretches south from the sculpture, through farm fields and prairie toward the tiny farming town of Regent. This is the Enchanted Highway, 32 miles in length, and one of the great folk art attractions in the United States. Along it stand monumental scrap-steel sculptures by a self-taught local artist named Gary Greff, who has been working on them since 1989. “Grasshoppers in the Field.” Sam Sifton/The New York Times About halfway down, we pulled into a dusty lot to look at one of Greff’s creations, “Grasshoppers in the Field.” These were skyscraper-tall metal grasshoppers, yellowed green and rusted and beautiful, standing on freshly mowed grass. I found them breathtaking. I felt shy about saying that to Michael, who was an art critic before he covered architecture. Instead I asked him what he thought of the work. Michael smiled broadly. “Pretty neat,” he said, and together we laughed again below the wide-open sky. Read Michael’s review of the library here. WORLD CUP Last night in England’s pubs, glory turned to horror, then heartbreak. The national team was eliminated from a World Cup once again, conceding two goals in the final minutes against Argentina. In a way, England’s fans were expecting to fall short — it’s all they’ve known since their only World Cup victory in 1966. But every four years they still chant the same anthem: “It’s coming home.” Lamine Yamal and Lionel Messi in 2007. What’s next? Argentina will play Spain on Sunday with a chance to become the first country in 64 years to win back-to-back men’s World Cups. It will be a something of a peculiar reunion for Argentina’s national hero, Lionel Messi, and Spain’s teenage sensation, Lamine Yamal. In 2007, when Messi was a rising star, he gave a bath to a 5-month-old Yamal for a charity calendar. Read the remarkable back story. THE LATEST NEWS War in Iran The U.S. military attacked a tiny island in the Strait of Hormuz that the U.A.E. and Iran both claim as territory. A gigantic billboard in Tehran depicts Trump lying in a graffiti-strewed open coffin. His hair is tousled and his hands are clasped over a protruding stomach. Congress Jay Clayton Alex Kent/The New York Times Democratic lawmakers grilled Jay Clayton, Trump’s nominee for national intelligence director, about his refusal to say who won the 2020 election. The fate of Todd Blanche’s nomination as attorney general remains uncertain after a key Republican declared himself undecided. House Republicans released a budget plan that would add $73 billion to military funding and authorize voting restrictions Trump has pushed. The House rejected a measure to eliminate U.S. aid to Israel, but almost half of Democrats supported the move, reflecting a shift in the party away from unequivocal support for the Jewish state. More on Politics Trump demanded that ICE agents resume stopping vehicles as they seek to detain illegal immigrants. The agency temporarily halted the practice after recent shootings in Houston and Maine. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a plan to test all military service members’ testosterone and offer hormone therapy to those with low levels, including women. Trump is building a granite helipad on the White House lawn. He has not asked Congress or any review panel to approve the project. The Treasury secretary said the U.S. Mint would start making gold $1 Trump coins. Around the World In Toronto yesterday. Kyaw Soe Oo/Reuters Wildfires in Canada are sending smoke to the Northeast, worsening air quality and turning skies orange as far east as New York. Protests broke out in Ukraine after President Volodymyr Zelensky fired the popular defense minister. Australia will require large A.I. data centers to generate as much power as they use. In France, lawmakers voted to legalize medically assisted dying. Bears in Japan are breaking into homes and raiding pantries. ASK THE MORNING Claire Merchlinsky/The New York Times; Photographs via Getty We invite your questions about the news, and get our experts to answer them. Here’s one from a reader named Katie Glasheen, who lives in Brewster, Mass. (Got a question? Click here.) Why is it so challenging to find the source of the Cyclospora outbreak? Doesn’t produce have a quick turnaround on shelves? Why is it lingering? Some food-borne pathogens, like Salmonella or E. coli, make you feel sick within hours of exposure. But it can take weeks to develop symptoms with Cyclospora. That means public health investigators have to ask patients to remember the foods they’ve consumed over several weeks. Many people can’t remember what they ate yesterday! Cyclospora also isn’t easily cultured in a lab, so it’s challenging for scientists to figure out what strain made a person sick, and then link that strain to other sick people — a key step in identifying the source of infection. In some past Cyclospora outbreaks, it took health experts several months to find the cause, if they figured it out at all. And in some cases, there are multiple sources. Experts said these challenges have only been made worse by funding cuts and staffing shortages at public health agencies. — Julia Calderone, an editor on our Well desk Read more: What to know about the disease, its symptoms, its treatment and how risky it is to eat fresh produce right now. OPINIONS The New York Times Opinion Mara Gay spoke to residents in New York’s Hudson Valley about the midterms. One concern came up time and again: the cost of living. Click the video above to watch. How worried should you be about the Cyclospora stomach bug? Not very, Emily Oster argues. Here’s why. Deeply reported journalism needs your support. The Times relies on subscribers to help fund our mission. Become a subscriber today. MORNING READS We’ve made all of these links free for you. Raphael Zufferey It’s a bird! It’s a fish! It’s a robot. M.I.T. researchers have created a waterproof winged machine that can quietly dip in and out of the water. Scientists hope it can help monitor fragile marine ecosystems. (Vindication at last: Birds aren’t real.) Guy Scott, a white man who was briefly the president of Zambia, died yesterday at 82. The author of his obituary, Alan Cowell, was probably the last reporter to have sent stories back to a newsroom via carrier pigeon, which he did while covering the 1980 transition of war-torn Rhodesia into independent Zimbabwe. That, also, is quite the tale. Your pick: The most clicked link in The Morning yesterday was about the renewed popularity of culottes, the shorts that look like a skirt. TODAY’S NUMBER $425,000 — That is how much imaginary money we’re giving you to buy a home in your imagination. There’s a townhouse in Savannah, Ga., a condo in Providence, R.I. and a desert home in Tucson, Ariz. Which will you choose? RECIPE OF THE DAY Armando Rafael for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Rebecca Jurkevich. I love cold silken tofu covered in something spicy and aromatic, then spooned over hot rice. And that’s just what Nisha Vora delivers with this ace new recipe. Homemade chile crisp, lots of peanuts and panko for crunch — it’s a salty-savory, tangy and lightly sweet situation she’s got going, an excellent combination for a summer meal. Nisha uses agave syrup, but I use maple instead. 🍁 Watch her make the dish in this video on our YouTube channel. A MAN OF MANY HATS The New York Times Jon Caramanica, our pop music critic, used the backdrop of Manhattan’s skyline to consider his latest song of the week, the up-and-coming Harlem rapper Liim’s new track “Machete Summer.” Watch. More on culture The Toledo Museum of Art, in Ohio, spent three years and about $250,000 putting together an exhibition celebrating the artistry of cannabis pipes. This spring, only months from its opening, the bong show went up in metaphorical smoke. Late night hosts had reviews of Joe Biden’s memoir. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS Read “It Will Come Back to You: Collected Stories,” by Sigrid Nunez. Our critic Dwight Garner, who reads books for a living, writes, “I’d rather read one of her books than almost anyone else’s.” Consider adding psyllium husk to your diet. For some, it can help with digestion. Clean your yoga mat with the assistance of the extremely flexible wellness influencers at Wirecutter. GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangram was nonbelief. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections, Crossplay and Strands. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times and me. See you tomorrow. — Sam Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Host: Sam Sifton Editor: Adam B. Kushner News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti Associate Editor: Lauren Jackson News Staff: Evan Gorelick, Brent Lewis, Lara McCoy, Karl Russell Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Editorial Director, Newsletters: Jodi Rudoren

🗞️ NYT fights subpoenas The new Air Force One, with President Trump aboard, takes off from Joint Base Andrews, Md., on July 3. Photo: Luis M. Alvarez/AP The New York Times fought back in court against subpoenas of three reporters who uncovered security fears about President Trump's new Qatari-donated Air Force One — Julian E. Barnes, Eric Lipton and Eric Schmitt. The Times reports that the Justice Department subpoenas, "which were delivered Friday evening by federal agents who showed up at reporters' homes, sought to compel the Times journalists to testify about their confidential sources before a federal grand jury in Manhattan." The newspaper says it "learned that subpoenas were prepared for two others, Adam Goldman and Tyler Pager, but neither received one." David McCraw, The Times' lead newsroom lawyer, said: "Today, The New York Times filed a motion to quash the abusive and improper subpoenas issued to three of our journalists demanding they appear before a grand jury in the Southern District of New York and disclose their confidential sources." ⚖️ The Justice Department's Emily Covington tells me the subpoenas have "nothing to do [with] intimidation." She said in an earlier statement: "To be clear, reporters are not the targets, those leaking classified information are. … We recognize there may always be natural tension there, but we are not going to ignore the law and stop investigating the people who work in the Administration and think it's okay to break the law and leak classified information impacting national security." 📱 When I asked the White House about a CNN report that some officials had been "asked to turn over their phones to investigators on White House grounds" as part of the leak probe, an official replied: "The White House takes these leaks seriously and will do everything legally to ensure the individual or individuals are caught." 👀 As part of a new video franchise by the New York Times Trust team, executive editor Joe Kahn, who oversees 2,000+ journalists, went on camera to say: "We see this … as an attempt to intimidate the journalists and The Times itself, and we're going to continue to report both about Air Force One and on the circumstances around the government use of prosecutorial power to intimidate the independent news media." Watch the video (gift link).

👀 Inside Trump's ICE reversal Photo illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios. Photos via Getty Images A livid President Trump complained to advisers late Tuesday about the Department of Homeland Security's decision to pause vehicle stops by ICE agents, after two fatal shootings of drivers in the past two weeks. The department's idea seemed to be that agents would get more training. But by yesterday morning, Trump had sent a Truth Social post reversing the pause, leaving DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin and border czar Tom Homan to explain, Axios' Brittany Gibson and Alex Isenstadt write. Why it matters: The latest ICE shootings have revived a tense debate within the administration over how to balance increasing public pressure to stop the violence with Trump's demands for tough enforcement and more deportations. 🔭 Zoom out: The recent shootings show how Mullin's handling of such incidents contrasts with that of his predecessor as DHS secretary, the often-embattled Kristi Noem. The initial pause on vehicle stops came soon after a plea from Maine Sen. Susan Collins (R), in light of the shooting of a Colombian national in Maine on Monday. Keep reading.

🏛️ Hill stunner: House Dems split on Israel A House vote to cut U.S. aid to Israel yesterday cleaved the Democratic caucus almost precisely in half — and exposed how bitterly divided the party has become over its once-staunch ally, Axios' Andrew Solender and Hans Nichols write. Why it matters: The vote was a flashing warning sign for Israel and put Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries in the uncomfortable spot of voting against the majority of his party. 103 Democrats supported withholding $3.3 billion in U.S. aid, while 98 opposed it — a once unthinkable split. (The amendment failed, 104–314, after Republicans overwhelmingly rejected it.) Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Greg Casar said it "sends a strong message to Netanyahu that the days are over of an unaccountable blank check … nothing will be the same on this issue ever again, I think, after this vote." 🥊 Pro-Israel Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) told Axios: "It's about the raw fear of pissing off the far left. But members need to remember that there is no appeasing them." Share this story ... Get Axios Hill Leaders, our weeknight newsletter from Capitol Hill. 🫏 Scoop from Axios' Alex Thompson and Holly Otterbein: The DNC asked its leadership team to sign nondisclosure agreements before a recent meeting about the party's finances. The move — a break from past practice for such officers — underscored DNC chair Ken Martin's sensitivity about the party's money woes and the persistent criticism about his leadership. Go deeper.

🇨🇳 New poll: China pulls ahead Data: Pew Research Center. Chart: Noah Bressner/Axios Global opinions about the U.S. and China have flipped: Most of the 36 countries surveyed by Pew now view Beijing more favorably than Washington for the first time. Views in 10 of the 12 NATO countries surveyed are also more favorable to China, including Italy, Canada, France and the Netherlands. Data from all 36 countries …

📺 Trump vote-fraud speech traps networks President Trump's primetime address from the East Room tonight (9 p.m. ET) is forcing TV networks to choose: Air potential 2020 election falsehoods, or risk backlash from a White House that's shown little hesitation in confronting the media, Axios' Alex Isenstadt writes. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt tells Axios it'll be "a major address to the nation on protecting the integrity of our elections." The networks haven't announced their coverage plans, which is unusual for the morning of the event. Why it matters: What would usually be a no-brainer decision to carry a presidential address has become a high-stakes editorial judgment for broadcast networks. Trump has said his speech will focus on "free and fair elections." He has promised a "very big announcement" and "really big news" regarding the security of the U.S. voting system. He hasn't specifically said whether he'll bring up the 2020 election — an obsession of Trump's since he lost it and cried fraud. The big picture: The networks face pressure from both sides. They've spent years trying to avoid amplifying Trump's false claims about widespread fraud in the 2020 election. Yet they also must contend with an FCC that, under chairman and Trump ally Brendan Carr, has opened investigations into broadcast networks.

AI godfathers converge Photo illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios. Photos via Getty Images The three men racing hardest to build superhuman AI — Demis Hassabis, Sam Altman and Dario Amodei — all agree the frontier needs to be regulated ASAP, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen write in a "Behind the Curtain" column. Why it matters: For the first time, the CEOs of Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic are on the record, in writing, converging on the same diagnosis and remarkably similar prescriptions. The three rivals each published a detailed distillation of their views in the past five weeks — the same extraordinary stretch in which Washington twice intervened to restrict or delay access to frontier models. We hear Meta's Mark Zuckerberg is working on his own memo, too. 🔬 Zoom in: Hassabis' proposal, published Tuesday, drew rare praise across the bitterly competitive AI industry, including from Altman, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and even longtime rival Elon Musk. Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark called the framework "excellent," writing: "At this point, everyone at the frontier of AI agrees that third parties should test out AI systems and use these to develop standards to feed into policy." The Trump administration itself is torn: Publicly, it has championed deregulation and resisted anything resembling "an FDA for AI," determined not to choke off U.S. innovation in the race against China. Privately, officials admit a total hands-off approach is untenable: Cyber fears have already forced them into improvised regulation twice this summer — first over Anthropic's Fable and Mythos models, then over OpenAI's GPT-5.6. 🖼️ The big picture: Amodei, Altman and Hassabis (plus countless CEOs and investors) basically agree on a rough regulatory framework. Independent testing: All three want frontier models subject to outside scrutiny before reaching the public — a break from the industry's old self-reporting standard. One governing system: All three cite legacy regulatory models, proposing bodies that set standards, certify compliance and can limit access to frontier systems deemed too dangerous. America First: All three want the U.S. — not a fragmented patchwork of states or rival national regimes — setting the terms for a body with international reach. Threat awareness: All three cite imminent national security vulnerabilities, including dangerous cyber and bioweapon capabilities. Innovation protection: None of them is calling for a broad crackdown on AI. The shared target is the small class of frontier models powerful enough to create catastrophic or strategic risk. Where they disagree: The AI godfathers part ways on whether the government itself should be the sole final referee. Amodei wants an FAA for AI: a federal agency with the power to block a model's release immediately, from Day 1. Hassabis wants a FINRA for AI: an industry-funded, federally overseen standards body that starts with voluntary pre-release reviews and could harden into mandatory market-access rules. Altman, writing in the Financial Times ($), pushes an IAEA for AI: a U.S.-led international forum that certifies countries, companies and safety standards, using access to frontier models and markets as leverage for compliance. 👓 Between the lines: OpenAI, Google and Anthropic already have the lawyers, security teams, government relationships and technical staff to navigate a complex certification process. Startups and open-source developers would face a much steeper climb. Critics fear this could lead to regulatory capture: Rules written to make AI safer may wind up entrenching the biggest AI companies. The bottom line: The Wild West era of AI development is officially over. The people with the most money, the most compute and the most to lose from an AI slowdown are the ones lobbying hardest for regulation. Zachary Basu contributed ... Share this column. 📝 Read the manifestos: Demis Hassabis ... Sam Altman (April preview) ... Dario Amodei.

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July 16, 2026 Whom Shall I Fear? “The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?” (Psalm 27:1) Think back to your youngest childhood days. Do you remember being afraid of the dark? Were you scared when your parents turned off the nightlight? Flash forward to more logical adult fears—thieves, natural disasters, negative bank account balances, unemployment, public speaking, shark attacks, political turmoil, and death. While some of those fears may seem far-fetched, there are other fears you might encounter that will truly drive you to your knees in prayer. How would you respond to life-threatening persecution? What if your children recant their faith and abandon everything you’ve taught them from Scripture? Could you handle the loss of loved ones and all of your possessions? The Bible is filled with examples of faithful believers who suffered (Hebrews 11:36-38). Many of the sorrow-filled Psalms were written by King David. But he wasn’t the only subject of fear, suffering, and trauma. Perhaps you are reminded of Job. He was a godly man. Yet the Lord allowed Satan to torment him, removing nearly every good thing from his life (Job 1:12; 2:6). How could he respond in faith to the One who protected his soul? In today’s text, David draws our hearts to what Spurgeon calls “a threefold cord which could not be broken.” The Lord is our light, salvation, and strength. And then he asks two rhetorical questions: “Whom shall I fear? . . . of whom shall I be afraid?” With the Lord on your side, you need not fear anyone or anything. His love for you is sure and steadfast. Nothing in the entire universe—darkness, disaster, demons, or the devil—can separate you from His love (Romans 8:38-39). MH

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🇬🇷 Pic to go! Photo: Christopher Ullman Longtime Axios reader Christopher Ullman of Alexandria, Va., snapped this sunrise pic while at a family wedding in Koufonisia, Greece, earlier this month.

Train your nose Illustration: Shoshana Gordon/Axios Exercising your sense of smell may help preserve brain health as you age. Why it matters: Smell is arguably the least valued of the five senses. American students say they'd rather lose their sense of smell than their hair, phone or even a pinky toe. But researchers see this sense as both an early indicator of cognitive health and a potential way to keep the brain sharp, Richard Sima writes for The Washington Post (gift link). 👃 Zoom in: Losing your sense of smell is often one of the earliest signs of Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease, sometimes appearing a decade before other symptoms, Sima writes. But it's not just a sign. Training your nose can boost cognitive function by improving neuroplasticity, or how well the brain can change itself, according to early research in Neuropsychology Review. 🍋 How it works: Try sniffing a range of different scents for about 20 seconds at a time, once or twice a day. You can buy smell training kits, but you can also just take in all the wonderful smells you encounter every day. Common smell training scents are lemon, rose, eucalyptus and clove, Sima notes. But you could also pay closer attention to the smells of your morning cup of coffee, your lawn after a fresh mow or your favorite dessert in the oven. Grab blindfolds and turn smell training into a game to play with kids or grandkids. The bottom line: As Sima puts it, "stopping to smell the roses is good life advice."