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Federal judge denies effort by Trump administration to get New Hampshire’s detailed voter data A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by the Justice Department aimed at compelling New Hampshire to turn over its voter rolls, dealing the Trump administration another setback in its quest for detailed information about the nation’s voters. https://apnews.com/article/justice-department-voter-list-new-hampshire-trump-8d490c0f19b8658abe00f0b6b2cba408?

The divided Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship decision exposes sharp rifts among justices The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that children born in the U.S. are citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment, rejecting an order President Donald Trump issued at the start of his second term declaring children born to people who are in the country illegally or temporarily are not American citizens. Read more. Why this matters: The ruling highlights a significant rift between the justices, particularly between Justices Clarence Thomas and Ketanji Brown Jackson. The majority, which included Justice Jackson, determined that birth on U.S. soil plus being subject to U.S. law is enough for citizenship. Dissenters like Justice Thomas argued that the parents must have a deeper allegiance to the U.S. RELATED COVERAGE ➤ Takeaways from Supreme Court term Supreme Court strikes down limits on party spending in federal elections, backing Republican appeal Writer E. Jean Carroll calls for Trump to pay $5.8M after high court appeal fails Supreme Court will consider whether laws known as assault weapons bans violate the Second Amendment NPR retracts article mistakenly reporting Justice Alito’s retirement, citing misunderstanding Judges strike down Trump administration’s overhaul of student loan forgiveness program Nursing gains ‘professional’ label for student loans after judge’s ruling, but theology now dropped

July 1, 2026 By Sam Sifton Good morning. It’s going to be another hot one for much of the United States today. Stay hydrated and out of the sun if you can. I’m going to start again with the Supreme Court, which ended its term yesterday with some big decisions. And then we’ll get to the rest of the news, including LeBron James’s decision to leave the Los Angeles Lakers. Allison Robbert for The New York Times A separation of powers In some of its biggest rulings this year, the Supreme Court pushed back against President Trump. Its justices struck down his executive order to revoke the birthright citizenship enshrined in the 14th Amendment yesterday, rejecting what was perhaps his most extreme assertion of executive authority. Trump wasn’t cowed. In a social media post he said that the court’s decision was “too bad for our Country” and asserted that he could “easily make it up in Congress through Legislation,” and that “no long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary.” He called on Congress to start that work immediately. Erica Green and Michael Gold, two of our reporters in Washington, said that Trump would likely need a constitutional amendment to reverse the decision, and that such a measure would face long-shot odds in both the House and the Senate. Legislation would require support from Democrats unlikely to provide it, and from Republicans perhaps unwilling to risk voters in battleground districts ahead of the midterm elections. Polls show that most Americans support the right to birthright citizenship, including 38 percent of Republicans. Allison Robbert for The New York Times But a reaffirmation that children born in the United States are Americans doesn’t mean the court hasn’t ruled in Trump’s favor on other occasions. They lifted limits on campaign spending, in a Republican victory, and continued Trump’s rollback of transgender rights by upholding West Virginia and Idaho laws that prohibit transgender athletes from playing on girls’ and women’s sports teams. “The headline might be: ‘Court checks Trump,’ but the through line is a concentration of power towards the presidency, towards the court itself and away from Congress, federal agencies and voters,” one lawyer who argues regularly before the court told my colleagues Ann Marimow and Abbie VanSickle. The decisions, he added, could “fundamentally change the relationship between citizens and their government.” It’s Roberts’s court Another takeaway from yesterday, and from the nearly 60 cases the court ruled on during this term that started in October? Ann and Abbie, joined by Adam Liptak, who has covered the court for decades, say it’s the lasting authority of the chief justice: Chief Justice Roberts showed once again that he was in control of the court he joined more than 20 years ago. He voted in the majority more often than any of his colleagues. And he wrote for the majority in nearly all of the most significant cases this term, including the court’s decisions to block the president’s birthright citizenship order and his attempt to impose sweeping tariffs. In those cases, the chief justice was able to assemble ideologically diverse coalitions with the liberal justices and one or more of the justices nominated by Mr. Trump in his first term. Read more takeaways here. (We’ve made this story free for you to read, along with some others in this newsletter.) Anger management Justice Amy Coney Barrett was part of a few of those ideologically diverse coalitions. That infuriated some on the right, both in Congress and on the internet, who assailed her after she ruled on Monday, in a 5-to-4 decision, that Mississippi could count mailed ballots after Election Day. “Remember Election Day? This disastrous SCOTUS decision, authored by Justice Barrett, guarantees we’ll keep drifting away from it — as our sacred elections get bogged down by endless mail-in ballots and never-ending counts,” Representative Abe Hamadeh of Arizona wrote on social media. The former Fox News host Megyn Kelly was of the same opinion. “Amy Coney Barrett is a turncoat,” she posted. “She’s constantly siding with the left.” According to a Times analysis, members of the court’s conservative bloc, including Barrett, have voted for a liberal-leaning result just 19 percent of the time. More on the Supreme Court Yesterday’s campaign finance decision, which rolled back restrictions on political party spending, is likely to benefit Republicans: Their committees are flush with cash, and they can start spending immediately on midterm battlegrounds. NPR published, and then quickly retracted, an article by the veteran reporter Nina Totenberg saying that Justice Samuel Alito was retiring. A Supreme Court spokesman said the article was “inaccurate.” In the video below, Adam Liptak explains how the Supreme Court rulings this week affected the power of the presidency. Click to watch. The New York Times SEEING GREEN Trump made at least $2.2 billion during his first year back in the White House, including about $1.4 billion from his family’s cryptocurrency businesses, according to a mandatory financial disclosure last night. Trump is a major crypto operator and the industry’s top policymaker, dual roles that seemed to pay off. One of the president’s biggest hauls came when an investment firm tied to the United Arab Emirates bought nearly half his family’s main crypto company, World Liberty Financial. Trump collected hundreds of millions of dollars from sales of his $TRUMP memecoin and World Liberty’s digital tokens. His main family business, the Trump Organization, pulled in millions by licensing the Trump name to properties in places like Saudi Arabia and Qatar. COLORADO PRIMARIES Melat Kiros Chet Strange for The New York Times It was a good night for Democratic insurgents in Colorado. Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old lawyer and democratic socialist, took down a veteran congresswoman in a Denver-area district. And Phil Weiser, the state attorney general, upset Senator Michael Bennet in the Democratic primary for governor. In a third closely watched primary, Senator John Hickenlooper held off a progressive challenger, partly by moving to the left. THE LATEST NEWS Midterm Elections Democrats face an uphill battle to win control of the Senate but new Times/Siena polls show they are competitive in six Senate battleground states. The Republican Party is planning an unusual midterm convention in Dallas in September, Trump said. Politics Representative Tom Kean Alex Kent/The New York Times Representative Tom Kean, the New Jersey Republican who disappeared from Congress without explanation in March, returned to Washington yesterday and revealed he’d been hospitalized for depression. Far-right House Republicans blocked discussion of the annual defense policy bill in an attempt to force action on a voting restriction bill that Trump champions. The U.S. government lifted its restrictions on the A.I. company Anthropic, allowing it to bring its most powerful technologies back online. DOG DAYS Source: National Weather Service. Data is as of 5:24 a.m. Eastern on July 1. The New York Times Summer heat has taken over the Midwest and is spreading east. More than 160 million people in America are under extreme heat warnings. Heat index values — a measure of what the temperature feels like to the human body, when humidity is considered with the air temperature — could reach as high as 115 degrees. Explore maps and forecast data for your hometown. And here are tips for how to stay cool and safe (it’s a free link). OPINIONS The New York Times Ezra Klein talks to Chris Rufo about right-wing activism, D.E.I. and the future of the American republic. I’m gay, not queer, and that distinction matters, personally and politically, Matthew Vines writes. (This link is free.) Deeply reported journalism needs your support. The Times relies on subscribers to help fund our mission. Become a subscriber today. MORNING READS In Kyiv, Ukraine. Oksana Parafeniuk for The New York Times Last dance: Prom meant everything to Masha Polska, a ninth grader in Kyiv, Ukraine. But when the big day came, her date had to waltz alone. (This link is free.) Rivals: Two neighboring mountain towns in Mexico are fighting over which is the true birthplace of Mexican soccer. Your pick: The most clicked link in The Morning yesterday was about whether American-style parenting has spoiled French children. Village person: Victor Willis, the Village People lead singer (and resident helmeted police officer), co-wrote hits including “Y.M.C.A” and “Macho Man.” He died at 74. TODAY’S NUMBER $2.77 trillion — That is the value of corporate deals announced worldwide during the first half of this year. It is the highest midyear total since 2002. And a lot of the deals were big. Forty-seven of them, collectively worth about $1.3 trillion, were valued at $10 billion or more, up an astounding 62 percent year on year. SPORTS World Cup France looked unstoppable in a 3-0 rout of Sweden. Kylian Mbappé scored twice, and now has the record for World Cup knockout-round goals. Mexico blew away Ecuador. The 2-0 victory was Mexico’s first knockout win in 40 years. Norway’s superstar, Erling Haaland, scored in the 86th minute to help his team past Ivory Coast, 2-1. Next up: Brazil. More Sports Serena Williams fell short in her first Wimbledon singles match since 2022. LeBron James plans to return for his 24th N.B.A. season — but not with the Los Angeles Lakers. Here are six teams he might join. RECIPE OF THE DAY Michael Kraus for The New York Times We’re at just about peak strawberries here on the East Coast, and I’m not cooking them for anyone. No need. Just wash and dry and slice, then top with a simplified Swedish cream — a combination of sour and heavy cream anointed with sugar or honey. Summer! SNUGGLE UP Robin Byrd HBO “The Robin Byrd Show” ran on Manhattan public access television from 1977 until 1998, a sex-positive, freewheeling late-night party conversation. “More kitschy than carnal, the shows were fueled by a goofy exhibitionism and a winning enthusiasm for a wide variety of sexual orientations,” our critic Jeannette Catsoulis writes. Now a new documentary, “Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Story,” explores Byrd’s life as an entertainer and bikini-clad First Amendment warrior. The film’s “as saucy, warm and uninhibited as its subject,” Jeannette says, with “a ramshackle charm and a nostalgic heart.” Read her review. 👙 More on culture How to build a landscape in your yard: slowly. “You need to grow a garden, don’t you?” the English landscape designer Dan Pearson told us. “And even just the ideas — you need to grow those ideas. So there’s much to be said, I think, for taking the time to understand something.” His tips. What’s an “American” movie, anyway? Our staff compiled 10 wide-ranging examples, including “There Will Be Blood” and “Nashville.” THE MORNING RECOMMENDS The New York Times Relieve your “tech neck” with these simple exercises. Listen to the new Phoebe Bridgers single, “Lost Boys.” Our Jon Pareles is into it. Consider new sheets. The testing-obsessed sleepyheads at Wirecutter found the very best ones. GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangram was womanhood. 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

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⚽️ U.S. heads for the knockouts Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios. Stock: Getty Images The pressure ratchets up significantly for the U.S. men's soccer team tonight in its quest to make a historic World Cup run on American soil, Axios' Bob Gee writes. The U.S. faces Bosnia-Herzegovina in Santa Clara, Calif., in the round of 32 (8 p.m. ET, Fox). 🇧🇦 Bosnia is the lowest-ranked European team in the tournament. It's on par with Australia, a team the U.S. beat 2-0 during the group stage. 😱 Yes, but: The Americans have lost to the last 10 European opponents they've faced — a streak dating back to a 3-1 defeat to the Netherlands in the first knockout round of the last World Cup. One big plus: USMNT's star attacker Christian Pulisic, hobbled earlier with a calf injury, says he's good to go tonight. Go deeper.

📉 Mag 7? More like Lag 7 Data: FactSet. (Mag 7 is the "original" cohort: Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia, Tesla and Meta.) Chart: Matt Phillips/Axios The "Mag 7" tech giants that carried the stock market out of the COVID era are starting to look more like the Lag 7, Axios' Matt Phillips writes. Investors are rotating away from companies spending on AI to those supplying the equipment: Micron, Intel, etc. Why it matters: The AI boom is creating lots of uncertainty, even for tech behemoths that have long seemed invulnerable. 😨 By the numbers: The Mag 7 were down 3.1% on average this year through Monday's close. The S&P 500 was up about 8.7% over that period. The S&P 500 was up 14% in the quarter that ended yesterday. That was the best three months in six years — since Q2 of 2020, when markets rebounded after the COVID selloff. Go deeper.

💰 Trump reaps $1.4 billion from crypto Photo illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios. Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images President Trump pulled in more than $2.2 billion in his first year back in office, powered by roughly $1.4 billion from crypto ventures, new financial disclosures show, according to his 927-page disclosure, released yesterday. The filings offer the clearest picture yet of a president profiting from an industry he regulates. The disclosure pegs Trump's assets at a minimum of $2.4 billion, but ranges cap at more than $50 million per holding, so the real total could be higher, The New York Times reports. He also reported $86.5 million from settling five suits against ABC, CBS, YouTube, Meta and X. The White House told The Washington Post that Trump has never had a conflict of interest and any suggestion otherwise is a "tired, false narrative." Go deeper (gift link).

Top AI model Fable is back Obtained by Axios The Trump administration lifted export controls on Anthropic's powerful Claude Fable 5 model, which had been pulled offline 19 days ago because of security fears. Access should return today. Why it matters: Claude-pilled users had been going through Fable withdrawal. "Fanning my agents out now!!" one young user texted me when the news broke last night. The letter from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick also covered Mythos 5, which is available to certain cybersecurity users. Last week, the Trump administration allowed Anthropic to restore access to Mythos 5 for a select group of government-approved organizations. Lutnick said in a post on X that his office had "worked closely with Anthropic to analyze and approve Fable 5 to ensure alignment across the US Government and strengthen America's leadership in AI." Screenshot: X 🛰️ The big picture: The U.S. government's role in regulating and evaluating frontier AI models before release is still up in the air — creating an ad hoc regulatory environment for AI companies. OpenAI rolled out GPT-5.6 to a small set of approved customers last week after a request from the U.S. government to stagger deployment. Read Anthropic's post, "Redeploying Fable 5."

Trump backs MAHA in "shocking" Oval Office fight Photo illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios. Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Tensions over pesticide use erupted in a heated Oval Office meeting last week, Axios' Alex Isenstadt scoops. The confrontation exposed a sharp fault line in Trump's coalition: the push by RFK's MAHA movement to reduce conventional pesticides vs. farming interests determined to preserve them. 🥊 The long-running fight came to a head during a tense Oval Office meeting last Thursday. Trump, HHS Secretary RFK Jr., Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall met to discuss a pesticide-focused executive order. 🧑‍⚖️ Kennedy's team was already on edge over a Supreme Court ruling earlier that day that handed the pesticide industry a major legal win. Kennedy told Trump that his order to cut pesticides in the food supply and study their effects would help offset it, according to three people familiar with the meeting. 🧑‍🌾 Duvall, whose organization represents more than 5 million farming and ranching members, was adamant that Trump not sign the order — warning that doing so could cost him the support of farming interests. Jonathan Lundgren, a South Dakota farmer and former USDA official who attended the meeting, tells Axios that Duvall's decision to forcefully confront Trump was "shocking," and that the president appeared concerned and "wanted to understand why Zippy was so worried." 😡 Trump had been expected to sign the order that afternoon. Suddenly, that wasn't so certain. What followed was a clash between Kennedy's team and Duvall, according to three people familiar with the fight. The most heated exchange took place between Duvall and Kennedy deputy Calley Means, who told Duvall that it was clear that he hadn't read Trump's order. Trump eventually signed the order. Duvall then said he'd support it. Mike Tomko, an American Farm Bureau Federation spokesman, disputed the idea that Duvall was against exploring pesticide alternatives. Tomko said Duvall's concerns centered on the "insinuation that our food supply is not safe."

🗳️ Socialist momentum: 30-year incumbent ousted Colorado's progressive left won Democratic primaries for Congress and the statehouse last night, Axios Denver's John Frank, Esteban L. Hernandez and Alayna Alvarez write. A socialist toppled a House Democrat: Melat Kiros, 29, beat 15-term Rep. Diana DeGette in Denver's deep-blue 1st District, despite being badly outspent by an incumbent who first won the seat before Kiros was born. A senator went down: Attorney General Phil Weiser upset Sen. Michael Bennet, a one-time 2020 presidential hopeful, by 10 points in the governor's primary. Bennet had deeper pockets and higher name ID. But Weiser pitched himself as the tougher fighter against President Trump. The establishment couldn't stop the left: A progressive won the secretary of state nomination. Several statehouse incumbents lost their primaries to left-wing challengers. Why it matters: Colorado shows New York's Zohran Mamdani-fueled victories for the left weren't a fluke. The antiestablishment surge is real, and Democratic incumbents have good reason to sweat their own primaries. Even the establishment's biggest win came with a warning. Sen. John Hickenlooper won renomination, but progressive Julie Gonzales beat him in Denver and still took almost 45% statewide. Read on.

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📸 Parting shot Green gentians are blooming in the mountains outside Crested Butte, Colo. Photo: John Frank/Axios The rare green gentian, or monument plant, is superblooming on Colorado's hillsides — a rare phenomenon during which tons of dormant wildflowers blossom simultaneously. The plant lives 20–60 years, but only blooms once, and then dies. Axios Denver's John Frank tells us.

Trump announces midterm convention for Republicans in Dallas in September President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Republicans will hold their first-ever national convention ahead of November’s midterm elections, an unusual event aimed at boosting turnout in races that will decide whether the party maintains control of Congress. https://apnews.com/article/rnc-republican-midterm-convention-donald-trump-fb02b785fb38362f99d7991a97e969d2?

🚬 The FDA will allow Zyn nicotine pouches to be marketed as less harmful than cigarettes. Scientists generally agree the pouches are a safer option for smokers, but critics worry about their appeal to young people, Axios' Caitlin Owens first reported.

⚖️ Court's summer avalanche People gather to attend a Supreme Court open session today. Photo: Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images Before hanging up their robes for the summer, the court handed down two other key decisions sure to delight conservatives. A majority ruled that: States can ban transgender girls from girls' school sports teams. Federal limits on how much political parties may spend in coordination with candidates violate the First Amendment. 🏃‍♀️ The decision on sports participation caps a yearslong, Republican-led push through statehouses and school boards to define girls' sports by sex assigned at birth, Axios' Andrew Pantazi reports. 💰 In the latter ruling, the justices freed party committees from federal limits on how much they can spend alongside their candidates, making them a more powerful magnet for the kind of cash that's flooded super PACs. The decision overturns a 25-year-old precedent that upheld those limits. The bottom line: Trump applauded both rulings as a "BIG WIN." Go deeper on the sports decision ... and on campaign finance.

Birthright survives A journalist runs an opinion to her news organization outside the Supreme Court today. Photo: Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images The Supreme Court handed President Trump a major loss today by axing his executive order restricting birthright citizenship. In their final ruling of a blockbuster term, five justices reaffirmed the long-held belief that any person born on American soil is a citizen, Axios' Josephine Walker reports. ✍️ Chief Justice John Roberts wrote: "Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights — to freely participate in our political community." Trump's executive order would have limited birthright citizenship to people who have at least one legally present parent in the U.S. Millions of babies would no longer have been eligible for citizenship, losing their rights to work authorization, safety nets and voting, among other things. 👀 Trump called on Congress to start working today "on ending expensive and unfair to our Country, Birthright Citizenship." GOP lawmakers are swiftly answering his plea, pushing for legislation — or even a constitutional amendment — to end automatic citizenship, Axios' Stef Kight reports. A constitutional amendment is highly unlikely. 🥊 Still, for immigration advocates, the sigh of relief is short-lived. Efrén Olivares, the vice president of litigation and legal strategy at the National Immigration Law Center, tells Axios: "We need to keep fighting." 🏛️ Just last week, the high court expanded Trump's power over immigration, including by clearing the administration's way to remove deportation protections for Haitians and Syrians. Go deeper ... What advocates are bracing for.

Shock New Details on Trump Sex Accuser, 13, Revealed A family member has come forward to share new details about the alleged victim. A woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted by Donald Trump when she was 13 years old has gone into hiding over fears of retaliation. A family member of the woman, identified only as Jane Doe 4, has come forward to The Guardian to say that the alleged victim has resorted to “staying off the grid” and away from the Trump administration amid the fallout from allegations that resurfaced in the Jeffrey Epstein files. The news comes one day after the Supreme Court rejected Trump’s final appeal to overturn a jury’s finding in civil court that he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll. On Wednesday, the acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, must unredact the FBI’s Epstein files or enter an argument as to why he should be allowed to keep their contents hidden and protect his boss from further recriminations. Jane Doe 4 alleges she was abused and trafficked by Epstein, and that the disgraced financier took her to New York or New Jersey and introduced her to Trump when she was about 13 years old in 1984. The White House has described the allegations as “total baselessness,” a view it says is supported by the fact that the Biden administration was aware of the claims but did “nothing with them.” The woman was interviewed four times by the FBI in 2019, when Trump was serving his first term, soon after Epstein was arrested on federal child sex-trafficking charges. There is no indication that an official investigation into the allegation involving the president was conducted. “Trauma is brutal. Chronic trauma destroys,” the relative said, adding that Jane Doe 4 has suffered abuse since early childhood. “She’s coping as best she can.” A redacted FBI report released as part of the botched release of the Epstein files revealed that the woman told interviewers Trump had forced her to perform a sexual act on him and punched her in the side of the head after she allegedly “bit the s--t out of” his penis. Trump is then alleged to have yelled, “Get this little b---h the hell out of here,” according to an FBI memo detailing one of Jane Doe 4’s interviews. The woman also alleged that she was assaulted multiple times by Epstein in South Carolina, as well as by a third man identified by The Post and Courier as businessman Jimmy Atkins. The Post and Courier, which reviewed handwritten interview notes from Jane Doe 4’s FBI interviews, was unable to corroborate any of her allegations involving Trump. There is also no evidence that Trump and Epstein were friends as far back as the early 1980s, when Jane Doe 4 alleges Trump assaulted her in a “very tall building with huge rooms.” Last week, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered Blanche to release unredacted versions of files already made public by the DOJ or explain why the department should be allowed to keep them secret. The DOJ was also ordered to release interview notes related to Jane Doe 4’s allegations. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt previously told the Daily Beast that accusations from Jane Doe 4 are “backed by zero credible evidence.” “The total baselessness of these accusations is also supported by the obvious fact that Joe Biden’s Department of Justice knew about them for four years and did nothing with them—because they knew President Trump did absolutely nothing wrong,” Leavitt added. “As we have said countless times, President Trump has been totally exonerated by the release of the Epstein Files.” The Daily Beast has contacted the White House for further comment. https://www.thedailybeast.com/shock-new-details-on-trump-sex-accuser-13-revealed/?

Supreme Court upholds state laws banning transgender girls and women from school athletic teams WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld state laws barring transgender girls and women from playing on school athletic teams, in another setback for transgender people. https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-transgender-athletes-school-teams-e01548be1fc0f574d9c274e077414075? Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, rejecting Trump’s proposed limits WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to people who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens. https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-trump-immigration-c73cf0c70bb550ebf0a55fafddbd935c? Supreme Court will consider whether laws known as assault weapons bans violate the Second Amendment WASHINGTON (AP) — A Supreme Court that has expanded gun rights will consider whether bans on semiautomatic rifles, often called assault weapons, violate the Second Amendment. https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-assault-weapons-ban-ar15-a362863265ba8630e71068fe5b75bb8e?

👋 Good morning! NBA free agency officially begins tonight at 6pm ET, though the wheeling and dealing is already well underway. Muncy vs. Muncy: Last night's Dodgers-A's game featured two different players named Max Muncy, both of whom played third base, batted 7th in the lineup… and were born on Aug. 25. No, really. In today's edition: Three World Cup thrillers, Ja heads to Portland, Hovland beats Scottie, Sinner survives a scare, sports are live TV's golden goose, Jalen Brunson Boulevard, and more. Yahoo Sports AM is written by Kendall Baker and Jeff Tracy. Let's sports...   🚨 ICYMI HEADLINES 🏀 Ja to Portland: The Ja Morant era in Memphis is over after the Grizzlies traded their onetime star to the Trail Blazers for Jerami Grant and Kris Murray. The former All-Star has played just 79 of a possible 246 games in the past three seasons due to injuries and off-court issues. 💔 CJ2K diagnosed with ALS: Former Titans star Chris Johnson revealed on "Good Morning America" that he was diagnosed with ALS last year. "If sharing my story helps even one person get diagnosed sooner, inspires more research or gives another family hope, it's worth it," he said with the aid of a speech-generating device that his rapidly deteriorating condition requires. 🏀 Beasley indicted: NBA veteran Malik Beasley, who didn't play last season amid a gambling investigation, was indicted Monday on federal charges related to a sports-betting scheme. He and former teammate Ed Davis, also indicted, are accused of working together to manipulate Beasley's performance in four games during the 2023-24 season. 🎾 A British nightmare: British players had arguably their worst day ever at Wimbledon on Monday, losing all 10 men's and women's singles matches that were completed, and trailing in the 11th that was suspended due to darkness. This after two of their most popular players (Emma Raducanu and Jack Draper) withdrew with injuries. ⚾️ Golden Spikes winner: Georgia's Daniel Jackson won the 2026 Golden Spikes Award, given to the nation's best amateur baseball player. The junior earned the honor after becoming the first catcher in NCAA Division I history with 25 HR and 25 stolen bases in the same season.   ⚽️ SURVIVE AND ADVANCE A TRIO OF THRILLERS (Paul Ellis/AFP via Getty Images) The first full day of knockout-round action delivered the goods, with Brazil winning in stoppage time and Paraguay and Morocco both winning penalty shootouts. How much fun is the World Cup? Houston, Texas — Japan tested Brazil's will for the duration of Monday's contest, but Gabriel Martinelli's winner at the death extinguished the upset threat in Brazil's hard-fought 2-1 victory. Despite the loss, Zion Suzuki's sensational fingertip save — and the hope it gave Samurai Blue in a match few expected to be so close — will not soon be forgotten. Cracks shown: Brazil has reached at least the quarterfinal of every World Cup since 1990, and that streak retains a pulse. But Japan demonstrated why this edition of the Seleção is not among the tournament's favorites (No. 7 in our pre-match Round of 32 power rankings). The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat. (Robert Cianflone/Getty Images) Foxborough, Massachusetts — After a stout Paraguayan defense and a controversial VAR decision prevented Germany from finding a winner through 120 minutes, the tournament's first penalty shootout — a 4-3 Paraguay win — delivered the gut-wrenching goods. No German had failed to convert a World Cup penalty since 1982; on Monday, three of them did. Historic upset: Paraguay, ranked 31 spots behind Germany, notched the fourth-largest upset in knockout round history. Meanwhile, Germany has not won a knockout round game since winning the 2014 World Cup, and the same surprisingly applies for the winners of the 2006 (Italy) and 2010 (Spain) editions. Can La Roja end that drought Thursday against Austria? (Carl Recine/Getty Images) Monterrey, Mexico — Morocco forced extra time against the Netherlands on Issa Diop's last-gasp header, neutralizing an emotional Cody Gakpo opener for the Dutch. And the Atlas Lions didn't waste their opportunity, dominating in extra time before winning the night's second shootout, 3-2. Unlucky losers: The Dutch have not lost a match in regular or extra time since the 2010 World Cup, exiting on penalties for the third consecutive tournament. Having yielded most of the possession (70%) and attacking chances to Morocco through 120 minutes, though, they can have few gripes with their elimination.   💯 STAT SHEET BIG NUMBERS Hovland celebrates his win with a Viking Row alongside his Norwegian supporters. (Andrew Redington/Getty Images) ⛳️ 8th victory Viktor Hovland defeated Scottie Scheffler on the first playoff hole Monday at the Travelers Championship, capturing his eighth PGA Tour victory when Scheffler's two-foot birdie putt to extend the playoff rolled past the cup — a rather shocking miss that keeps the world No. 1 out of the winner's circle for his 13th consecutive tournament. By the numbers: Though Scheffler hasn't won since his season-opening victory at The American Express, his results have otherwise been exactly what you'd expect from the world's best golfer: He has four runner-up finishes, another four in the top five and nothing outside the top 25. Put another way, he's finished in the top five in nine of his 14 starts. There's a reason he leads this season's money list by nearly $2 million. ⚾️ 4-game sweep The Red Sox breathed new life into what was looking like a lost season over the weekend, completing their first four-game sweep of the Yankees since 2018 on Sunday thanks to Jarren Duran's walk-off single. The sweep was particularly surprising considering Boston (37-46) entered the series with the AL's worst record and New York (48-36) entered with its best. Dominant pitching: Boston's starters completely shut down the Bombers, allowing just 10 hits and 3 ER while all four recorded a quality start, capped off by Sonny Gray's near no-hitter in the finale. The Yankees' offensive woes continued on Monday, as they've now been held to three hits or fewer in four consecutive games for the first time in franchise history. (Matthew Stockman/Getty Images) 🎾 5 sets Jannik Sinner escaped with a narrow victory on Monday at Wimbledon, overcoming a bloody foot and an early deficit against Serbia's Miomir Kecmanović for his first five-set win since 2024, snapping a streak of five straight losses in such matches. Next up for the world No. 1 is tomorrow's second-round match against Portugal's Nuno Borges. Wild stat: Combined with his stunning upset loss last month at Roland Garros, Sinner has now dropped more sets in his last two Grand Slam matches (4) than he has in his last 34 Masters 1000 matches (3). ⚽️ 37 of 170 Monday's pair of shootouts were the 36th and 37th in 170 World Cup knockout-round matches since penalty shootouts were introduced before the 1978 tournament — a rate of nearly 22%. With nine in the last two editions, and two on Monday alone, chances are we'll get at least a couple more in the next few weeks. But have you ever wondered how goalies prepare for and defend against the most pressure-packed play in soccer? What they're saying: "It's not like you're going, 'Eeny, meeny, miny, moe,'" longtime goalkeeper coach Todd Hoffard told Yahoo Sports. "Are you going to get fooled sometimes? Absolutely, because you've got to make that split-second decision. But you're never really just aimlessly guessing. There's a lot of preparation involved." Dive in.   📺 MEDIA MONEY LIVE SPORTS: TV'S GOLDEN GOOSE (Bruno Rouby/Yahoo Sports) At the heart of the forces driving sports' emergence as an asset class is their unique and unparalleled value to an evolving media landscape. No substitutes: The rise of streaming and the demise of the monoculture has left a void in live programming filled only by sports. While we used to gather around our TVs for primetime viewing of network television shows, those days have long since passed. In 2005, sports accounted for just 14 of Nielsen's top 100 most-viewed live programs. In 2025, 95 of the top 100 were sports, with football alone taking 90 spots. (Lev Akabas/Sportico) Play the shift: Sports have a unique ability to transcend trends new and old that have made other programming less valuable. For example, over the last two decades viewers have steadily adopted the practice of "time-shifting" dramas, sitcoms, and reality TV, watching them at a later date that better suits them. But sports don't allow for such behavior. Looking ahead, as AI floods the world with generative content, sports offer one of the few remaining authentic human experiences, where results are organically decided in real time. Shifts in ratings methodology have also proved beneficial to sports, with Big Data and Out-of-Home adjustments from Nielsen providing a tailwind to measured audience sizes. What they're saying: "10 years from now, we will have a steady dopamine drip of all that other content to make us laugh, to make us cry," Seven Seven Six founder and prominent sports investor Alexis Ohanian explains: "You will never want to watch robots play soccer or play golf. You need to see that human experience. If you're wondering why I'm investing so much money in sports, particularly women's sports, it's because of this: 10 years from now, live sports will be even more important to us, because it will be the one thing to connect us to our own humanity." Rising tide, not for all boats: Analysis from Boston Consulting Group highlights a striking dichotomy between the haves and have-nots of the sports media landscape. The higher absolute rights fees for the top properties restrict both the pool of available bidders and the budget they can offer to the broader sporting ecosystem. The top 10 media properties in sports grew their global media rights from $15 billion to $32 billion (113%) over the decade spanning 2014 to 2024. The next 20 properties grew from $5 billion to $7 billion, an increase of only 40%. We explored this topic further in Monday's edition of Yahoo Sports Biz, our new sports business newsletter. Subscribe here to start receiving it every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.   🏀 NBA OFFSEASON FREE AGENCY PRIMER (Joseph Raines/Yahoo Sports) While the NBA offseason technically kicked off last week with various major trades and extensions, it officially kicks off tonight at 6pm ET with the start of free agency. There's a lot to follow, so we've got you covered with an in-depth look at where things stand across the league. Dan Devine, Yahoo Sports: Which teams will look to take big swings aimed at entering the championship conversation? Which players are mere days away from grabbing a generational bag? And who might be on the verge of a big decision they'll come to view with deep, penetrating regret? The answers to those questions, and many more, will come in the days and weeks ahead. While we're waiting, please accept this offseason primer as a means of setting the table and trying to get our arms around the biggest-ticket issues around the NBA as the annual feeding frenzy of acquisitions commences.   📺 VIEWING GUIDE WATCHLIST: TUESDAY, JUNE 30 (Andrew Matthews/PA Images via Getty Images) 🎾 Wimbledon, Day 2 Serena Williams takes the court today (~12pm ET, ESPN) in a professional singles match for the first time in four years, facing unseeded Australian Maya Joint on Center Court at the All England Club. Plus: The action is streaming all day on ESPN+, including first-round matches for top-ranked American men No. 4 Ben Shelton (7:10am) and No. 6 Taylor Fritz (9:40am), defending women's champion No. 3 Iga Świątek (8:30am), and more. ⚽️ World Cup, Round of 32 Three more teams will punch their ticket to the Round of 16 today, with Ivory Coast vs. Norway in Dallas (1pm, Fox), France vs. Sweden in East Rutherford (5pm, Fox) and Mexico vs. Ecuador in Mexico City (9pm, Fox). Home cooking: Mexico will look to continue its dominant form after finishing the group stage as one of just three teams to go a perfect 3-0-0 (Argentina, France), and one of just two that allowed zero goals (Spain). More to watch: ⚾️ MLB: Tigers at Yankees (7:05pm, TBS/Prime) … Two-time reigning AL Cy Young Tarik Skubal (3-4, 3.32 ERA) vs. AL Cy Young favorite Cam Schlittler (8-4, 1.62 ERA). 🏀 WNBA: Aces at Liberty (7pm, Prime) … The only game on tonight's schedule is a real doozy, pitting the last two champions — who are both currently among the league's top five teams — against each other. Got plans tonight? Gametime is the best place to score last-minute tickets to the events in your city.   🌎 GEOSPORTS TAP THE MAP GeoSports is a five-question daily trivia game that combines sports with geography. Tap where it happened! The closer you are, the more points you get.   🏀 BING BONG WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NEW NAMES (NYC DOT) New York isn't done celebrating the Knicks just yet, with the city's Department of Transportation announcing on Monday that it was putting up temporary street signs across Manhattan to honor the 2026 NBA Champions. See for yourself: For the next four weeks, all 18 players on the roster will have a personalized street sign that corresponds to their jersey number along 6th and 7th Avenues from Houston Street up to 55th Street.

DeSantis vetoes $1.7B from his eighth — and final — state budget as governor Gov. Ron DeSantis, who will leave office in January due to term limits, signed his eighth and final state budget into law Monday but not before he struck $1.7 billion in spending. https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/06/29/desantis-vetoes-1-7-b-from-his-eighth-and-final-state-budget-as-governor/? DeSantis won’t formally campaign for property tax amendment TAMPA — Gov. Ron DeSantis has spent more than a year boosting a proposal to eliminate or substantially reduce property taxes for Floridians, but because the Legislature’s version doesn’t reach as far as his own plan, he now says he doesn’t intend to campaign for the proposal that will go before the voters in November. https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/06/29/desantis-wont-formally-campaign-for-property-tax-amendment/? DeSantis restores emergency fund used to pay for ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ disasters Florida’s emergency response fund, the massive pot of cash used to foot hundreds of millions in “Alligator Alcatraz” bills, can now resolve all financial obligations drawn down since February, according to a new law Gov. Ron DeSantis quietly signed Monday. https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/06/29/desantis-restores-emergency-fund-used-to-pay-for-alligator-alcatraz-disasters/?

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Not sure what that link is for? And like everything else, except for the Word of God, I don't! But if you actually take the time to look at the Review archives you'd see that that information came from there!! I have read that in one of the AR magazine's a while back!!