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Initially intended to be a perpetual time. After God initiated Israel's calendar it became a fixed day determined by the new moon. I agree that God should be worshipped on any and every day of the week but disagree that what we know today as a Gregorian Saturday was part of any practice until later in Israel's history. We live on a round earth and that makes it impossible that the Sabbath day as practiced by Judaism today was intended for Gentiles. Otherwise, God would have made the earth flat.

🎉 Yahoo! It's Friday! You made it. In today's edition: Lynx lead at the break, "Behind the Lens" with Getty Images, the Tour de France's grueling finale, every team's longest winning streak, and more. Yahoo Sports AM is written by Kendall Baker and Jeff Tracy. Let's sports...   🚨 ICYMI HEADLINES ⚾️ Immaculate inning: Guardians' righty Gavin Williams threw the 122nd immaculate inning (9 pitches, 3 strikeouts) in MLB history on Thursday against the Twins. Cleveland lost in extras, but Williams became the first pitcher since 2023 with 11+ strikeouts in three straight starts. ⛳️ Near ace: Jake Knapp got impossibly close to his first career hole-in-one during the first round of the 3M Open, when his tee shot on the fourth hole hit the pin on its third bounce before coming to rest on the edge of the cup. Seriously, you can't imagine how close this was. 🏒 Windy City reunion: Patrick Kane is returning to the Blackhawks on a two-year, $16 million deal after being traded away in 2023. Kane, 37, returns to the team that selected him first overall in 2007, and with whom he won three Stanley Cups and a Hart Trophy (MVP). ⚾️ The A's new (minority) owner: The Mark Cuban-backed private equity firm Harbinger Sports Partners has purchased a minority stake of undisclosed size in the Athletics ahead of their move to Las Vegas. ⚾️ White House visit: The Dodgers returned to the White House on Thursday to celebrate their 2025 World Series title. The team gifted President Trump a personalized championship ring, as well as the customary jersey.   🏀 ALL-STAR BREAK MINNESOTA'S ALONE AT THE TOP Collier looks on before her season debut. (Scott Eklund/NBAE via Getty Images) As the WNBA All-Star break begins, one team is head and shoulders above the rest. And their lead may only grow in the second half given who they've just added back into the fold. Return of the Queen: The Lynx were already in first place and sitting on a six-game winning streak when Napheesa Collier made her season debut on Wednesday after recovering from offseason ankle surgeries. Now they've won seven in a row, and their unquestioned leader showed no signs of rust with 24 points and 10 rebounds in her return. Phee isn't just Minnesota's best player; she's easily a top-five player in the league, and arguably second only to A'ja Wilson. The eight-year veteran has finished as the MVP runner-up each of the last two seasons, and last year became the second player in league history to join the 50/40/90 club (FG%, 3PT%, FT%). Now, she rejoins a first-place team already loaded with talent. Embarrassment of riches: The Lynx not only have Kayla McBride, Natasha Howard and Courtney Williams, veterans who've combined for 11 All-Star nods; they also have Olivia Miles, putting up one of the greatest rookie seasons ever. The No. 2 pick out of TCU, averaging 19.3 points, 4.7 rebounds and 6 assists, is the runaway favorite for ROY. She also just became the fastest rookie in WNBA history to reach 500 points and 150 assists (26 games), breaking the record set two years ago by Caitlin Clark (29) and again last year by Paige Bueckers (28). The fascinating thing to watch now will be how the reintroduction of the team's best player impacts Minnesota's chemistry. But the good news for them on that front is they're led by Cheryl Reeve, the winningest coach in league history. Like I said, embarrassment of riches. History repeating itself? 15 years ago, Reeve and the Lynx won their first of four titles in a seven-year span behind ROY Maya Moore and a host of star veterans. While repeating such a dynasty is a borderline impossible task, Miles, Collier and Co. are well-positioned to, at the very least, end this season as champions. (Mallory Bielecki/Yahoo Sports) Chasing Minnesota: There's plenty of season left, but the playoff picture entering the break is pretty stratified, with eight teams over .500 and seven under. Leading the chase are the Valkyries — who've won 13 of their last 16 — the defending champion Aces, the Bueckers-led Wings and the Clark-led Fever. And always lurking are the Liberty, the only team other than Vegas to win a championship in the last four years.   ⚽️ PHOTOGRAPHY BEHIND THE LENS: WORLD CUP EDITION As promised, here is Part 2 of our World Cup "Behind the Lens" project with Getty Images, who captured more than 2.6 million photographs at this summer's tournament and shared the backstory on some of our favorites. (Alex Pantling/FIFA via Getty Images) Los Angeles, California — Lamine Yamal takes a corner kick during Spain's Round of 32 match against Austria, as shot by Alex Pantling. Behind the lens: Here's Alex… One of my goals going into this World Cup was to try and capture the atmosphere and architecture of these incredible stadiums that the games were being played in. They're very unique and something that the World Cup doesn't see very often. When a player takes a corner kick it's a great opportunity to fill the frame with an athlete and also shoot wide with the atmosphere of the stadium. The Los Angeles Stadium was one of my favorites to work in; the architecture was incredible and so good to photograph. That, combined with a superstar from the eventual World Cup champs taking a corner, made for a great picture. (Elsa/Getty Images) Atlanta, Georgia — Lionel Messi scores the late equalizer in Argentina's Round of 16 victory over Egypt. This one was captured by Elsa with the help of a well-placed remote camera. Behind the lens: Here's Elsa… At Getty Images, we are one of the international press pool agencies that were allowed to install a small camera in the upper corner of the net. In order to get those images in real time, they are cabled and delivered to an editor as they are shot. The set up happens about three hours before kickoff. To trigger this camera, I ran a cable from the corner of the net, secured it to the straps of the goal, tucked it inside the padding of the post and ran it through the back of the net to my position. Also attached to that cable is an additional behind-the-goal remote camera that I trigger with a foot pedal whenever there is action in front of the net. Remote cameras allow us to get unique perspectives that we would normally not be able to capture. When I'm covering an event, I often will shoot not only the goal, but the aftermath, because reactions are just as important as actions. And sometimes, like with this image, you can see it all in one frame thanks to the goal-scorer being close to the net and the ball nearly hitting the camera.   📺 VIEWING GUIDE WEEKEND WATCHLIST The Col du Galibier climb, pictured here in 2022, will be part of Saturday's "Queen Stage." (Tim de Waele/Getty Images) 🚴 Tour de France The 113th Tour de France ends on Sunday in Paris (9:30am ET, NBCSN/Peacock), but first come two historic stages that will almost certainly decide the race, which four-time winner Tadej Pogačar currently leads by 4'32". Alpe d'Huez: The iconic climb up Alpe d'Huez hasn't featured at the Tour since 2022; this year, for the first time ever, two consecutive stages will finish at its summit. Today (6:30am ET) is a relatively short ride (79.5 miles) that ends with the famed 21-hairpin climb; tomorrow (5am) is the Queen Stage, as each year's most grueling stage is called. The 106-mile ride features roughly 3.5 miles of climbing, ending with a trek up the other side of Alpe d'Huez, which has only been ridden in the Tour as a descent. 🇺🇸 USATF Outdoor Championships New York City's Icahn Stadium is hosting this weekend's U.S. Track & Field Championships (Fri-Sun, NBC/Peacock), marking the first time the event has been held in the Big Apple since 1991. Marquee events: The biggest names headline the biggest event in tonight's 100m semis (6:18pm, Peacock) and finals (7:45pm). Reigning Olympic gold medalist Noah Lyles will try to take back the crown from defending national champion Kenny Bednarek, while Sha'Carri Richardson will try to win her third women's title. And don't miss 17-year-old phenom Cooper Lutkenhaus in Sunday's 800m final (4:33pm, NBC). 🏀 WNBA All-Star Weekend The league's biggest stars travel to Chicago this weekend, where the United Center hosts tonight's Skills Challenge (8pm, ESPN) — headlined by the 3-Point Contest — and tomorrow's All-Star Game (8:30pm, ABC). Starting lineups: Two Hall of Famers acted as GMs to draft each team. Cynthia Cooper's starters are Paige Bueckers (DAL), Breanna Stewart (NY), Kelsey Mitchell (IND), Natasha Howard (MIN) and Gabby Williams (GS). Teresa Weatherspoon's starters are Caitlin Clark (IND), A'ja Wilson (LV), Olivia Miles (MIN), Aliyah Boston (IND) and Jessica Shepard (DAL). More to watch: ⚾️ Hall of Fame: Induction Ceremony (Sun. 1pm, MLB) … Carlos Beltrán, Andruw Jones and Jeff Kent will be enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame. ⚾️ MLB: Yankees at Phillies (Fri. 6:40pm, Apple; Sun. 7:20pm, NBC); Blue Jays at Red Sox (Fri. 7:10pm, Apple); Guardians at Rays (Sun. 12:15pm, Peacock) ⛳️ Golf: 3M Open (Fri-Sun, ESPN+/Golf/CBS); Women's Scottish Open (Fri-Sun, Golf/CNBC) … Emiliano Grillo (-7) leads in Minnesota while two women tied for the lead (-6) after the first round in Scotland. 🏎️ F1: Hungarian Grand Prix (Sun. 9am, Apple) … The final race before F1's monthlong summer break. 🏁 NASCAR: Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (Sun. 2pm, TNT) … $1 million championship of the In-Season Challenge. 🥊 Boxing: Anthony Joshua vs. Kristian Prenga (Sat. 5:45pm, DAZN PPV) … Joshua returns to the ring seven months after destroying Jake Paul and tragically losing two close friends. Meanwhile, fellow British former heavyweight champion Tyson Fury will fight Mariusz Wach today in Thailand in a bout that curiously will not be broadcast. Plus: ⚽️ MLS Matchday 18 (Sat. 6:30-10:30pm, Apple) and NWSL Matchday 16 (Fri-Sun, Prime/ESPN/CBSSN); 🥍 PLL Week 10 in Denver (Fri-Sat, ESPN+/ESPN2); 🏀 The Basketball Tournament (Fri-Sun, FS1); 🏈 IFL regular-season finale (Fri-Sun, Yahoo Sports) Got plans this weekend? Gametime is the best place to score last-minute tickets to the events in your city.   📊 BIG FOUR CHART DU JOUR: LONGEST WINNING STREAKS (Lev Akabas/Sportico) The Red Sox matched their longest winning streak ever with 15 straight victories before finally losing on Wednesday. Where does that rank among the 124 active franchises across North America's "Big Four" major leagues? Longest streak by league: Boston's streak is tied for 32nd overall, and tied for 10th among MLB teams. This data, courtesy of Sportico's Lev Akabas, includes only regular-season games within a single season. 🏀 NBA: 1971-72 Lakers (33 straight wins) ⚾️ MLB: 1916 Giants (26) 🏒 NHL: 1992-93 Penguins (17) 🏈 NFL: 2007 Patriots (16) Did you know? The Giants' 26-game win streak was actually interrupted by a tie (12 wins, 1 tie, 14 wins). MLB's longest purely uninterrupted streak belongs to the 2017 Indians, who won 22 straight.   🏀 GO DEEPER GOOD READS: NBA EDITION (Dillon Marshall/Yahoo Sports) Kevin O'Connor: The Indecision: What's LeBron James waiting for? LeBron James has never signed up for a team without a plan, be it Miami in 2010, Cleveland in 2014 or Los Angeles in 2018. Now, for the first time, he might have to choose between rosters as they are and not rosters as he wishes they were. As his indecision enters its fourth week, what does the landscape look like? (Amy Monks/Yahoo Sports) Ben Rohrbach: NBA Power Rankings: How does the East stack up after major offseason moves? There has been a lot of player movement this offseason, and outside of LaMelo Ball going to Minnesota, most of the action has moved to the Eastern Conference. So, we figured we'd take a stab at power ranking our new East. These rankings are, of course, perfect and inarguable. They're certainly not just one man's opinion in the dog days of summer… before anyone has played a game. (Henry Russell/Yahoo Sports) Steve Jones: NBA Rookie Rankings: Who's at the head of the class after Summer League? With Summer League officially in the rearview mirror, it's a good time to build a list of what we just witnessed. And while the context of Summer League can lead to varied results, one thing is crystal clear right now: Rookie of the Year is going to be a tight, fun (and likely discourse-filled) race.   ⚾ HALL OF FAME MLB TRIVIA (Joe Robbins/Getty Images) Carlos Beltrán, whose Hall of Fame induction is on Sunday, will be just the third player wearing a Mets cap on his plaque in Cooperstown. Question: Who are the other two? Hint: Pitcher and catcher. Answer at the bottom.   🏎️ START YOUR ENGINES YAHOO SPORTS x APPLE TV (Apple) This weekend's Formula 1 AWS Hungarian Grand Prix 2026 continues our season-long partnership with Apple TV for F1 coverage. Tune in: All three practice sessions (Fri. 7:30/11am ET; Sat. 6:30am) and tomorrow's qualifying (10am) will air for free on Yahoo Sports, while Sunday's race (9am) will stream on Apple TV, the new U.S. home of Formula 1.   Trivia answer: Tom Seaver (inducted in 1992) and Mike Piazza (2016)

Trump’s Secret Fury Behind White House Nuclear Chaos Exposed The president is said to be livid about the terms of a nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia. President Donald Trump’s frantic bid this week to revise the terms of a historic nuclear pact his administration had already signed came about because his energy secretary reportedly jumped the gun on the deal.The landmark cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia has unleashed chaos at the White House, sources told CNN, as Trump scrambles to assure lawmakers and voters that it’s not the no-strings giveaway it appears to be. The White House had asked the Energy Department to hold off finalizing the pact, but Energy Secretary Chris Wright seems to have gone ahead regardless. He signed the agreement Wednesday at his department’s headquarters in downtown Washington, his Saudi counterpart joining by video link from Riyadh. Then the 61-year-old went on Fox Business to sell the deal. Wright’s people thought they were clear. Approval had finally landed late last week, his team believed, after months of delay driven by the Iran war and fears Congress would vote the pact down. One source told CNN that any nod from Trump, 80, had only been for a provisional bargain. It had not been a green light to sign and trumpet the agreement.Washington and Riyadh have been circling this since 2008. Successive U.S. administrations have insisted that Saudi Arabia agree to buy its nuclear fuel on the open market, rather than enriching uranium on its own territory. The Biden administration added provisions requiring the kingdom to normalize relations with Israel. Wednesday’s deal appears to have dropped both demands, without securing any concessions for the U.S. in return.Critics have savaged the pact as a missed opportunity to smooth relations between the kingdom and Israel and warn that it could lead to a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. Many cast the giveaway as the president’s olive branch to Saudi Arabia amid tensions between Washington and Riyadh over the chaos sparked by Trump’s war on Iran—which he sold as a bid to curb nuclear proliferation in the region. Trump himself, according to CNN, is livid. By Thursday morning, he had publicly blown up the deal his administration had signed only the day before, posting on Truth Social that Saudi Arabia would first have to recognize the state of Israel and denying that the pact allows the kingdom to enrich its own uranium. Things have been even uglier behind the scenes. Some of Trump’s advisers did not regard the pact as finished, because Congress had yet to receive the notifications the process requires, and were as incensed as the president himself, sources said. The snafu has fired the starting pistol on a frantic blame game inside the administration. White House aides say it’s squarely the fault of the Energy Department. Its officials have long irritated the West Wing, who have grumbled before that Wright, who made his fortune in the 2010s fracking boom, has a habit of going off half-cocked. Nobody has said any of it on the record. The official narrative is that Trump’s energy team is “fully aligned, and always has been,” White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers told CNN. “This is fake news,” Energy Department press secretary Ben Dietderich said, insisting the announcement had been squared with both Trump’s office and the State Department. The Daily Beast has contacted the White House for further comment. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-secret-fury-behind-white-house-chaos-over-saudi-arabia-nuclear-deal-exposed/?

Trump’s Mass Deportation Humiliation Is Exposed New ICE figures reveal an awkward truth for the president. New ICE figures show President Donald Trump is on course for a record 458,000 deportations this year—barely half the one million removals pledge that he swept into power on.The agency’s FY2026 detention statistics, posted quietly on July 20, show that 356,389 people were sent back to their home countries between October 1 and July 11—about 1,255 a day, according to analysis by PunchUp. At that pace, Trump, 80, will beat the all-time single-year record of 409,849 set in 2012 under Barack Obama, 64, that earned him the “Deporter-in-Chief” tag, the Daily Beast’s new sister investigations Substack reports. But the record is still unlikely to endear Trump to his deportation-obsessed supporters, PunchUp says. Trump’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, 40, and then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, 54, demanded ICE hit at least 3,000 arrests a day in order to hit the one million deportations target. The Trump administration says that the current figure is around the 2,000 mark. Who is being deported has changed, too, according to PunchUp. Roughly 55 percent of those Obama removed in his record year had criminal convictions. Of the 65,765 people in ICE detention on July 11, some 46,436—70.6 percent—have no criminal conviction at all, and 40.5 percent of everyone booked into detention this year had neither a conviction nor a pending charge. Border czar Tom Homan, 64, admitted the shift on Fox News on July 18, saying “60 percent of everyone arrested right now is a criminal, 40 percent are non-criminal.” The operation has also moved from the border into American neighborhoods. More than 90 percent of the 353,948 people booked into detention this fiscal year were seized by ICE in the interior, not caught at the border—and the machine is speeding up again, with 43,138 book-ins in June being the busiest month of the fiscal year thus far. As PunchUp revealed in May, ICE’s daily arrest rate jumped from 226 in the 19 days before Trump’s inauguration to 544 in his first 12 days back—while the share of arrestees with no criminal charges rose from 58 to 69 percent. The administration denied that it had any arrest quota at all. Asked about the surge, White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told PunchUp at the time: “President Trump campaigned on and won an election based on his promise to deport criminal illegal aliens. The entire Administration is working to carry out the President’s agenda.” The current record pace does, though, mark an acceleration. ICE logged 319,980 removals in the 2025 fiscal year, according to researcher Austin Kocher’s analysis of the agency’s year-end data, though ICE’s footnotes fold voluntary returns and expulsions into that count. After two years of ramping up immigration and tens of billions spent, deportation numbers are still barely half of Trump’s promise. A spokesperson for DHS told PunchUp that ICE was “delivering on President Trump’s promise to the American people to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens,” that “nearly 70 percent of ICE arrests” had been “charged or convicted of a crime in the U.S.,” and claimed, “more than 3 million illegal aliens are out of the country and counting.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-mass-deportation-humiliation-is-exposed-by-ices-own-figures/?

Putin Left Out in the Cold as Trump Gushes Over New BFF The president appears to have ditched the Russian leader in favor of his sworn enemy. President Donald Trump appears to have hitched his wagon to the Ukrainian cause after ditching under-pressure Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. At home, the Kremlin demagogue is experiencing a mounting crisis. A costly, grinding war with Ukraine has created an economic train wreck, with fuel costs spiraling out of control. His approval rating is ticking down as a result. In short, his stock is low, and Trump appears to be looking towards pastures new. “Very good!!!” the president, 80, gushed on Truth Social, sharing a snippet of Laura Loomer’s upcoming interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “Nobody was around us; it was only two of us. And I was very happy to hear [the] president… it was very good. We calmed down, and it was very good, and I’m so happy because a lot of lives depend on such relations and dialogue,” he said in the clip, perhaps attempting to stroke Trump’s ego. Loomer had asked him, as part of her “Loomer Unleashed in Ukraine” production, about the Oval Office flashpoint with Trump in Feb. 2025 that altered the course of Washington-Kyiv relations and nudged the U.S. president into a cozy relationship with Putin. He hosted the Russian leader in Alaska months later, rolling out the red carpet for him at a summit after which he urged Ukraine to cede territory to Russia to end the war. Trump has since cooled on Putin and appears to be embracing Ukraine and Zelensky. So too does Loomer, despite her previous position as one of MAGA’s most critical anti-Ukraine voices. Her opposition boiled down to an America-first stance, where she favored not supporting Zelensky’s regime militarily due to the cost Americans would ultimately incur. But this month, Loomer traveled to Ukraine, where she experienced an air raid, toured sites damaged by Russian attacks, visited the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery, and, of course, met Zelensky. She has now changed her tone, even rattling off friendly tweets about the leader she once called “a Jihadi apologist,” who leads a country “full of Nazi apologists.” She is now looking inwards, seeking “moral clarity.” “Just experienced my first air raid in Ukraine. Sirens blaring. This is everyday for every Ukrainian,” Loomer wrote on X on July 21. “I often said I don’t care. Looking back, that wasn’t very nice of me to say.” Her change in tone appears to be down to apparent Russian support for Iran in its war with the U.S. “I don’t care about what the media says about me or anyone’s opinion about why I came to Ukraine. I am deeply disturbed as an American citizen about how many Americans minds have been warped to support Russia’s third world slop that pushes communism and a multipolar world where Xi, the Ayatollah and Putin are our masters,” she wrote on X on Thursday. “I hope the DOJ in the US starts cracking down on Americans who participate in Russia and Iran’s networks of disinformation and influence peddling.” Another surprising flip-flop came from her fellow conservative influencer, Tim Pool. “Ukraine has been fighting for their very existence against an evil dictator,” he posted on X on Thursday evening. “I see now the importance of the Ukrainian victory against Russia. I hope Trump and the people of the United States will lend their support.” This is all the more stunning given that the right-wing influencer was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to spread Russian propaganda during the 2024 presidential election. The turnaround is completed by reports that Trump is willing to meet with Zelensky in D.C. next week, perhaps even at the funeral of the late South Carolina senator, Lindsey Graham, who was in Ukraine hours before he died. Graham, who died earlier this month at 71, was a staunch pro-Ukraine advocate. DW News U.S. Correspondent Misha Komadovsky scooped on Friday that the meeting could take place, but details still need to be thrashed out. “President Zelensky is expected in Washington, D.C. next Tuesday, two senior officials tell me,” he posted on X. “He plans to attend Sen. Lindsey Graham’s funeral. A meeting with President Trump is also being arranged — officials are still finalizing the format, whether a sideline meeting at the funeral, a private sit-down, or an official White House visit.” Loomer confirmed this with Zelensky. https://www.thedailybeast.com/putin-left-out-in-the-cold-as-trump-gushes-over-new-bff-zelensky/?

Trump’s Foul-Mouthed Oval Office Meltdown Is Leaked Insiders say the furious president is now in “revenge mode.” President Donald Trump flew into an expletive-laden rage in the Oval Office over his bungled war on Iran, according to people who heard the meltdown. The U.S. and Iran remain locked in a rapidly escalating war, with American forces on a run of 13 consecutive nights of airstrikes. Tensions have peaked since Iran rejected a U.S. ceasefire proposal delivered by Iraq on Thursday. To make matters worse for petulant Trump, crude oil prices topped $100 a barrel for the first time since May after fighting metastasized into other parts of the region. On Friday, Al Jazeera reported a top Iranian diplomatic official as saying the U.S. is “up the creek.” Indeed, he has an ever-growing headache. He is increasingly frustrated by the length of the war, one that he said would be over in a matter of weeks. It’s been almost five months. He showed this frustration when he was quizzed by a reporter about the timeline at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, after attending Sunday’s World Cup final in New Jersey. “On Iran, Mr. President, you said at the start of the war it would be four or five weeks,” the reporter said. “Now it’s nearly five months?” Trump immediately shot back that the reporter had somehow undersold the scale of the task at hand. “This is a far bigger job that we’re doing,” he said. “We were doing a little job, stopping them from having a certain capability. Now, we’re just ending it.” He continued with a rambling, garbled answer before stopping the interview and hot-footing it to the waiting Marine One helicopter. He was much clearer inside the White House, according to insiders who spoke to the Wall Street Journal. He reportedly went into meltdown mode, calling Iranian leaders “scumbags and lunatics” in a rant peppered with expletives. Failed negotiations with Iran have made him angry, according to people familiar with the matter. One senior administration official told the Journal that the president believes that the only thing Iran understands is military force. They said that he was in “revenge mode” against Tehran, adding that he has no bright ideas beyond continuing strikes. “The United States signed an MOU with Iran and they broke it, shot at commercial ships, and killed American soldiers. President Trump is not going to stand by and allow this terrorist behavior to occur,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. The 28-year-old added that Iran was paying for its behavior and would continue to do so “until they come to the table in what President Trump deems a meaningful way.” However, a senior Iranian diplomatic source told Al Jazeera that Trump’s approach won’t work. They lamented the “administration’s coercive posturing and continued acts of aggression.” He accused the U.S. of breaking the Memorandum of Understanding, signed in June. “The U.S. reneging on its commitments under the 17 June MoU is the cause of the current situation,” he noted, adding that Tehran considers all options to be on the table, including diplomacy and—of course—force. Indeed, the Iranian military released a statement on Friday morning, saying that it has launched drones over U.S. bases in Jordan and Bahrain in response to American attacks on targets in Iran. The Journal cited “people familiar with the matter” who said that Trump has complained about the Kafkaesque network of people that his diplomats must navigate to reach Iranian leadership. He has also moaned that every time he feels progress has been made at the negotiating table, Iran strikes a U.S. target, undoing all the good work, the sources said. His headaches have been made worse by claims from Israeli intelligence that he is personally a target. Israeli sources told the WSJ earlier this month that Iran had devised a plot to kill him. Trump referenced being “No. 1 on the kill list for Iran” when asked why he flew home from a NATO summit in Turkey on an older Air Force One instead of his new plane, the $400 million Boeing 747-800 that was gifted to him by Qatar. After initially claiming he used the older jet for “old times’ sake,” it later emerged that his new Air Force One lacks the same defensive systems—including antimissile capabilities—as the old one, and the Secret Service urged the switch. The Journal has now been told that this threat extends to his top aides. They have been told to stop using car services as a result, according to people familiar with the matter. Trump’s answer appears to be to step up the war. He has told aides that he thinks he can break the Iranians’ resolve with another bombing campaign, the Journal reported, citing a person familiar with Trump’s views. “I believe he thinks he gave peace a chance,” said Texas Republican Rep. Michael McCaul, a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “He’s going back to Plan A, which is the military operation.” The White House has been approached for comment. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-foul-mouthed-oval-office-meltdown-is-leaked/? ps:Pathetic little man!!!!!

What to know about the predictions for a potentially record-breaking El Nino Seasonal models are predicting an El Nino climate pattern that could be the strongest on record, bringing with it more extreme weather. https://apnews.com/article/el-nino-climate-hurricane-heat-drought-rain-d9b3de8acc849198fbb1097fbb0eb4f6?

Nearly 150,000 mail ballots rejected in California primary despite efforts to count every vote According to state data, 1.73% of all mail ballots were rejected in the June election. It's a spike from recent elections even as the state attempts to make voting easier with the goal of boosting participation and counting every ballot. Read more. What to know: California has become notorious for its ponderously slow vote counts that can drag on for weeks and sometimes longer, largely the result of multiple changes over the years that were intended to increase turnout but have done little to achieve that. Among the changes: Every voter receives a mail-in ballot that can arrive at an election office seven days late and still be counted, provided the envelope is postmarked by Election Day. Yet even with that generous week-long window, the primary driver of the higher rejection numbers is late-arriving ballots, according to data compiled by the secretary of state’s office. Voting experts suspect the main problem is postmarks on ballots that came after Election Day, making them ineligible to be counted. The culprit could be U.S. Postal Service changes that might affect the timing of when postmarks are applied. RELATED COVERAGE ➤ Alaska sends 3,000 letters asking voters to verify their citizenship ahead of this year’s elections FACT FOCUS: Posts falsely claim Obama urged noncitizens to vote in 2016 Federal judges allow new Tennessee congressional map that splits majority-Black district in Memphis

Laura Loomer meets Zelenskyy in Ukraine after her major reversal on the war The ardent ally of President Donald Trump, with a reputation for incendiary social media commentary, sat down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday. Read more. Why this matters: It was a stunning reversal for a woman who had spent years criticizing U.S. support for Ukraine's defense. Loomer had minimized Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and amplified Russian propaganda to her nearly 2 million followers. Trump gave his stamp of approval on social media. “Very good!!!” he wrote on Thursday evening. It was unclear what had prompted Loomer's trip or how she had arranged the meeting with Zelenskyy. Loomer and the White House did not respond to requests for comment on the trip. “It is really important that @LauraLoomer is in Ukraine and sees things with her own eyes as they are,” Zelenskyy’s office wrote. RELATED COVERAGE ➤ US is ready to help end the ‘senseless war’ in Ukraine but no quick deal ahead, Rubio says How protests over a popular minister’s firing sparked Ukraine’s sudden military reset Ukraine hits Russia’s largest online marketplace, hurting small businesses and bringing the war home

Trump imposes new tariffs President Donald Trump is going ahead with new double-digit tariffs on dozens of U.S. trading partners just as the clock runs out Friday on stopgap levies he imposed after a stinging defeat at the Supreme Court. Read more. What to know: The United States will slap taxes of 10% to 12.5% on imports from 60 trading partners accounting for 99% of U.S. imports, charging that they have inadequately enforced bans on goods produced by forced labor. The new tariffs will take effect just as temporary 10% worldwide tariffs expire Friday. Trump had turned to those temporary levies after the Supreme Court struck down his biggest and boldest tariffs in February. RELATED COVERAGE ➤ Carney says Canada is ready to respond to tariffs Canada holding solo celebration of new bridge to US House again passes a resolution seeking to halt military action in Iran as the conflict escalates Explosions are heard near a US base in northern Iraq after US strikes Iran Trump adds new condition to Saudi nuclear deal, says kingdom must normalize relations with Israel

⚡ Renewable power set to pass coal Data: International Energy Agency. Chart: Ben Geman/Axios Electricity generation from renewable sources is on track to surpass coal-fired power this year — an inflection point that shows renewables' rapid growth, Axios' Ben Geman writes from International Energy Agency data. Hydropower remains the largest renewables source, but solar is rising fast.

🇸🇦 Trump's nuclear fine print Via Truth Social President Trump claimed yesterday that the new nuclear deal the U.S. signed with Saudi Arabia will not include uranium enrichment and requires the kingdom to normalize its relations with Israel, Axios' Barak Ravid writes. Why it matters: Trump is responding to two of the bigger criticisms of the deal — that it could open the door to nuclear enrichment and that Washington gave up leverage to push a peace deal with Israel. Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman signed the deal Wednesday in Washington after more than a year of negotiations. Trump wrote on Truth Social yesterday that it's "totally subject to Saudi Arabia joining the very respected and successful Abraham Accords." The nuclear negotiations began under the Biden administration as part of a broader deal that included a U.S.–Saudi defense treaty and required Saudi Arabia to sign a peace deal with Israel. Keep reading.

⚖️ Charted: Historic crime drop Data: Council on Criminal Justice. (Not all cities in the study report every offense.) Chart: Noah Bressner/Axios Homicides are on track to hit their lowest rate in more than 125 years, according to a new report from the Council on Criminal Justice showing an 18% drop in killings across 30 cities so far this year — and a 31% decline since 2019. If the trend holds, homicides would fall below even last year's historic low — dropping to levels not seen since before 1900. Every major violent crime category — including carjackings, robberies and gun assaults — is down from pre-pandemic levels (charted above). More data.

💰 Trump rebuilds tariff playbook The Trump administration announced a new round of tariffs of as much as 12.5% on 60 trading partners yesterday — preventing a lapse in import taxes as a temporary tariff program nears expiration, Axios' Courtenay Brown writes. Why it matters: It shows the White House's determination to sustain its tariff agenda as it turns to new trade laws as earlier authorities run their course or face legal challenges. It has been one of the busiest weeks for Trump's trade agenda in months, from new tariffs on Brazil to fresh threats against Canada and now a broader new tariff authority. 🎨 The big picture: The tariffs stem from an investigation launched by U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer in March into whether trading partners had failed to effectively block goods made with forced labor. Countries that have adopted a ban on forced labor but that the U.S. judges are not enforcing effectively will face a rate of 10%. Other nations' goods will be subject to a rate of 12.5%. 👓 Between the lines: Oil and gas, certain fertilizers and some food products are among the goods exempted, reflecting concerns about economic disruption. Keep reading ... Full tariff announcement.

God may be worshiped on any day of the week. The Sabbath, according to the Bible is only on one day, the day which on most English countries is called Saturday. Yes, I am, aware of one place where the Biblical SAbbath is considered to be on the day called Sunday, and SDAs in that place worship on Sunday.

AI titans' biggest private fear Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios. Stock: Getty Images Yesterday we told you why AI's biggest optimists reject doom scenarios. Today, the other side: what keeps the smartest minds in AI up at night. We ask almost every AI architect and leader the same thing in private: What AI risk worries you most? Almost all of them fire back the same response: a killer pathogen, spreading too silently, widely and quickly to stop, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen write in a "Behind the Curtain" column. Why it matters: The rare agreement among AI experts flows from the belief these advanced models could help a bad actor create a deadly pathogen before the government and industry perfect detection and prevention systems. This isn't a likely scenario. It's simply a plausible one as AI gets better at understanding our biological vulnerabilities, much like it has our cyber ones inside large nonhuman systems. Driving the news: The experts aren't hedging. In a new MIT FutureTech and University of Queensland study, 272 researchers ranked 24 top AI risks. They assessed a 12% chance that AI's dangerous capabilities produce a catastrophic outcome by 2030, and another 12% chance of AI-enabled weapons and mass-harm capabilities. And that's with mitigation efforts to reduce risk. Without those efforts, the chances exceed 20%. The researchers defined "catastrophic" as more than 1 million deaths or $100 billion in damage. Assisting with the construction of chemical or biological weapons sits squarely inside that top-ranked risk category. 🖼️ The big picture: We're not writing this to scare you, but to say bluntly what those building the technologies say privately — and, in more careful ways, publicly. Just last month, OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman and Meta's Alexandr Wang cosigned an open letter warning of the risk of AI-derived bioweapons and calling for more safeguards. This pathogen possibility colors every debate by the federal government and industry about how to review and understand new AI models and capabilities before they are released to the public. The hope is that the frontier model developers build guardrails and capabilities that can block bad actors with bad intent — and that the very technology that could be used to create a pathogen becomes advanced enough to prevent or inoculate against it. Data: MIT FutureTech and the University of Queensland. Chart: Herb Scribner/Axios Reality check: It's very hard to prevent bad actors from plotting evil schemes, especially with so-called open-source models improving so rapidly. These open models can be used and adapted by anyone in private settings outside of any regulatory regime. Open-source critics often make this very point, even though the frontier models are much more likely to possess the compute power to create something novel. So the better the models get, the more likely unthinkable things will happen, both bad and good. 🧪 How it might actually unfold: Today, engineering a genuinely novel pathogen requires rare expertise, specialized lab equipment, and years of failed experiments. AI expedites all of this. Here's the sequence that keeps experts up at night: A bad actor (whether state-sponsored or a well-resourced individual) uses a powerful model to map human biological vulnerabilities and identify which genetic tweaks make a known pathogen more transmissible, harder to detect, or immune to existing treatments. The model, trained on massive biological and genomic datasets, generates viable candidates. Imagine hundreds of the smartest scientists working at warp speed, never stopping, never tiring. That's what swarms of agents do. Those candidates get synthesized using increasingly cheap, accessible gene-editing tools, a separate technology accelerating with AI. The pathogen spreads before anyone knows what they're looking at, novel enough to slip past existing biosurveillance systems. By the time public health systems recognize it, containment is vastly harder than we experienced with COVID. That's why you should pay attention to the debate over new cybersecurity risks created by AI. It illustrates the race to create effective detection and prevention faster than new offensive capabilities can emerge. It's also why you should track the open-source debate, too. A frontier lab can bake in guardrails. An open model fine-tuned by someone operating outside any regulatory regime can evade this. The bottom line: This is heavy, scary stuff. But ignoring it won't solve it. Knowing it and preventing it will.

German leader Merz reshuffles top posts as he tries to counter far-right advance BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz reshuffled top posts on Friday as he tries to boost the fortunes of his deeply unpopular government ahead of regional elections in which a far-right party could get its first state governor. https://apnews.com/article/germany-merz-reshuffle-88ac9ff4ab22aa01522545cbcbee282d?

Adam and Eve were intended to live perpetually in the 7th day (perfection). Adam and Eve sin, get expelled from the rest of God (driven out of Eden) where the ground burps up thorns, animals are eating each other and we are told that Adam will have to now toil ALL the days of his life. Past that the Book of Exodus explains that the Sabbath was a rest of God and that God had given it to "Israel".

Not as the Sabbath, the other six are for work or labor as it says, only one day is bless and made holy or sanctified as we see.. Genesis 2 King James Version 1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. 4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

Here is from the EGW estate.. "ELLEN WHITE’S TRINITARIAN STATEMENTS: WHAT DID SHE ACTUALLY WRITE? By Tim Poirier Ellen G. White Estate, Inc. Introduction Certain opponents of the church’s second fundamental belief (“The Trinity”) argue that Ellen White’s supportive statements cannot be trusted as reflecting accurately what she wrote and taught. These persons claim to accept Ellen White’s prophetic writings, but they question the authenticity of her statements that affirm the church’s belief in three distinct, co-eternal, fully divine persons in the Godhead—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This presentation will not attempt to fully define Ellen White’s concept of the Godhead nor discuss the question of whether there was any development in her views. Its interest is in the authenticity of Ellen White’s key statements in the light of available source documents. It should also be clearly stated that the church’s fundamental belief in the Trinity is not based on Ellen White’s writings, but on its understanding of biblical truth. “Third Person of the Godhead” For most Adventists, Ellen White’s published statements are conclusive as to her teaching on this question. In The Desire of Ages she writes that “sin could be resisted and overcome only through the mighty agency of the Third Person of the Godhead, who would come with no modified energy, but in the fullness of divine power” (p. 671). This is how the text has read since its first publication in 1898. So how do opponents escape its natural interpretation that there are three distinct persons in the Godhead? First, by suggesting that the expression found its way into The Desire of Ages through the influence of Ellen White’s assistants and/or Herbert Lacey or W. W. Prescott.1 Second, by pointing out that the words “third person” are not capitalized in the original 1898 printing, signifying to them that the word “person” is used in a more “general sense.”2 Third, by suggesting that while there are in reality only two persons in the Godhead, “the net effect for us is that there are three divine beings,” since the Holy Spirit is called “another Comforter.” In this view, the Holy Spirit is “the Spirit (presence) of the Father and/or Christ,” and not in actuality a distinct third divine person.3 We will not pursue the third interpretation, except to look later at a further Ellen White statement that speaks of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, as “three distinct agencies” working together on behalf of humanity. But the first two observations are aimed at the authenticity of the text—our interest in this presentation. Can this passage in The Desire of Ages be trusted as representing what Ellen White actually penned? What does the original manuscript say? The White Estate often receives this type of inquiry from persons who question the reading or teaching of a published statement. Some are surprised when we tell them that Ellen White did not write out her chapters by longhand as they appear in books like Steps to Christ and those in the Conflict of the Ages Series. She was certainly the author of the text, but most of the material comprising the chapters as we have them was compiled from her many earlier works, including her sermons, letters, and articles.4 So to find the original manuscript for any given passage in a book like The Desire of Ages, we must determine the source document and whether a handwritten draft of that document is extant. What, then, is the source for this sentence on page 671 of The Desire of Ages? We find it in a letter Ellen White addressed to “My Brethren in America,” dated February 6, 1896. She wrote, “Evil had been accumulating for centuries, and could only be restrained and resisted by the mighty power of the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Godhead, who would come with no modified energy, but in the fullness of divine power.”5 This letter was copied and sent from Australia to church leaders in Battle Creek, where the General Conference president, O. A. Olsen, published it the next year in a pamphlet circulated among church leaders and ministers (Special Testimonies, No. 10, pp. 25-33). This contemporary publication provides another evidence—beyond the obvious copyright date—that this passage in The Desire of Ages reads as it did when first published in 1898. Exhibit 1 is a scan of the first page of this letter, showing the key sentence in the second paragraph. The skeptic will ask how we know that this letter actually came from Ellen White. What does the handwritten original say? Unfortunately for us who live in 2006, Ellen White rarely preserved original drafts of her letters once they had been transcribed and received her approval. We will see that, in certain other instances, we are fortunate to have her original drafts, but for this letter the handwritten original is not known to be extant. But we do have other evidences of its authenticity. Pages 5, 6, and 7 contain Ellen White’s handwritten interlineations, which she often added after further reading of a document. Exhibit 2 is a scan of page 6, showing these interlineations and providing the evidence that this letter was indeed reviewed by Ellen White herself. So we are on sure ground in concluding that this key sentence in The Desire of Ages was not slipped past Ellen White’s eye into the manuscript of the book either by her assistants or other church leaders. What should we make of the second argument, that the words “third person” were not capitalized in the earliest printings? As we saw in Exhibit 1, the phrase was also not capitalized in the original letter. Further comparison between Ellen White’s letters and her published articles and books indicates that editorial style, not theological intent, governed such matters as to whether pronouns referring to deity should be capitalized. If the argument is to be made that the use of lower case characters in “third person” shows that Ellen White was not attributing deity-status to the Holy Spirit, then one has to explain why, in the same earliest printings, the personal pronoun “He” (referring to the Holy Spirit) is twice capitalized in the immediately preceding paragraph (671:1), and elsewhere in the same chapter. https://media2.whiteestate.org/legacy/issues/The-Trinity.pdf And there is more as you can see in the link..

This is the link to the complete article https://maranathamedia.com/downloads/article-links/Response-to-David-Asscherick.pdf

Well take a look at this that I came across.."Ellen White and the Use of 'Three' Concerning the Godhead" There are a number of statements in the Spirit of prophecy on the Godhead and I came across this study of how and when it was presented with the use of 'three'. SOP uses 'three great powers of heaven' 'three highest powers' 'third person of the godhead' 'the threefold name' 'three living persons of the heavenly trio' 'three great worthies'. and the times of their usage... dates of first occurrence and number of times published for each expression: third person of the Godhead 1896, 1897, 1898,____________________1904, 1905,_____1908 the threefold name ________________1900 three great powers of heaven ____________________1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1907,_________1910 three highest powers ___________________________________1904, 1905, 1907, 1908, 1909 three great worthies, three holiest beings, three persons of the heavenly trio ___________________________________________1906' The scriptural support for there are 'three great powers' or 'three highest powers.' This is clearly revealed in Scripture. 1. 'The power of the Most High' Luke 1:35; 'the power of God' Rom 1:16 2. 'Christ the power and wisdom of God' 1Cor 1:24; 'the power of our Lord Jesus Christ' 1Cor 5:4 3. 'through the power of the Holy Ghost' Rom 15:13; 'power of the Spirit of God' Rom 15:19 Now here is the really interesting assertion in the study... The Dividing Line Inheritance versus Self-Originated Life While there is no dispute concerning the existence of the three highest powers, there is a difference of understanding on the relationship of these three powers. I submit to you for your consideration that there is an assumption in this question that these three powers are all self-originated powers with no possibility of inheritance. There is an assumption that inheritance would disqualify a person from being considered Divine. This assumption is unwittingly reflected in the slight misquoting of the statement 'three Living persons in the heavenly trio.' The statement actually says 'three living persons of the heavenly trio.' Is there a difference between in and of? The word in gives the sense of 'contained within' while of gives the sense of emerging or coming out of. This, for some, may not alter the meaning but in my mind it leans towards a relationship of the three powers of coming out from one source point. I will offer several considerations for the inherited Divinity of Christ as the most normal, literal and grammatical way of reading the Scriptures and Ellen White. A. Terms of Father and Son What is the normal, literal and grammatical meaning of these terms? Check this study Father and Son | Fountain of Living Waters to see the manifold expressions of Father and Son, Son of God, Father and His Son. All of these references speak to the reality of the Son coming from the Father. A careful reading of the latter section of Testimonies Vol 8 reveals clearly the identities of Father and Son. For instance: The Scriptures clearly indicate the relation between God and Christ, and they bring to view as clearly the personality and individuality of each. "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, whom He hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds; who being the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; being made so much better than the angels, as He hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. For unto which of the angels said He at any time, Thou art My Son, this day have I begotten Thee? And again, I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to Me a Son?" Hebrews 1:1-5. God is the Father of Christ; Christ is the Son of God. To Christ has been given an exalted position. He has been made equal with the Father. All the counsels of God are opened to His Son. {8T 268} In the first paragraph Ellen White states the clear relation of Father and Son. In Paragraph two, she supports this relation and distinction with Heb 1:1-5 and then in paragraph 3 states plainly God is the Father of Christ, Christ is the Son of God. The normal, literal and grammatical meaning of this is straight forward. It is simply expressing the literal understanding of the terms Father and Son. As James White states 'The simple language of the Scriptures represent the Father and Son as two distinct persons. With this view of the subject there are meaning and force to language which speaks of the Father and the Son.' James White, Review and Herald, June 6, 1871 We might also mention Prov 8:22-30 with Ellen White's direct reference to being brought forth: The Lord Jesus Christ, the Divine Son of God, existed from eternity, a distinct person, yet one with the Father. He was the surpassing glory of heaven. He was the commander of the heavenly intelligences, and the adoring homage of the angels was received by Him as His right. This was no robbery of God. "The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way," He declares, "before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth: while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth" (Proverbs 8:22-27). Review and Herald, April 5, 1906 Once again: “Through Solomon Christ declared: 'The Lord possessed Me in the beginning of His way, before His works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth.' Signs of the Times Aug 29, 1900 And again: And the Son of God declares concerning Himself: "The Lord possessed Me in the beginning of His way, before His works of old. I was set up from everlasting. . . . When He appointed the foundations of the earth: then I was by Him, as one brought up with Him: and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him." Proverbs 8:22-30. Patriarchs and Prophets p. 34, 1890 I see no reference to personification, metaphor or symbolism in the quotes above; such concepts did not arise until the 1950s.

July 24, 2026 By Sam Sifton Good morning. The Trump administration has imposed new tariffs on goods from more than 80 countries. The tariffs, along with the war in Iran, are threatening the U.S. economy. We have more on that below. But first: Yesterday was a big day for mathematics — particularly for four young mathematicians. I enlisted my colleague Evan Gorelick, The Morning’s best number cruncher, to explain their achievements. In Philadelphia. Erin Blewett/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Do the math By Evan Gorelick The Fields Medals are a quadrennial happening, like the Olympic Games and the World Cup. Each comes with 15,000 Canadian dollars (about $10,600) and a gold coin emblazoned with the bearded face of Archimedes, the Greek polymath who lived in the third century B.C. Nobody really knows what he looked like, so the artist took a swing. The medals, awarded in Philadelphia yesterday to four scholars, are sometimes called the Nobel Prizes of mathematics. But while the actual Nobels can be notoriously tardy — awarded decades after major work — the Fields are conferred at the dawn of a mathematician’s career. You have to be under 40 to be considered. That’s younger than the median age of first-time American home buyers. This year’s winners include two people born in China, one of them the third woman to receive a Fields in the 90 years they’ve existed. Another of the four medalists solved a geometry puzzle that’s a whole lot harder than it looks. The last says he’s leaving pure math and pivoting to artificial intelligence. (#awkward!) Kenneth Chang, a science reporter who has covered the Fields Medals five times since 2006, spoke to each of this year’s winners. Take a gander, and fight the urge to feel inadequate. Meet the mathletes Yu Deng Simons Foundation Yu Deng, 37, University of Chicago Maybe you remember learning about Newton’s laws of motion in school. Those laws describe the behavior of individual objects — think one billiard ball ricocheting off another. But in huge systems with billions or trillions of objects, it’s impossible to calculate the precise interactions among them. So mathematicians use statistical equations to model collective behavior. Deng managed to bridge the gap, working backward to derive one of those statistical models from Newton’s laws. It’s called the Boltzmann equation. Find out more. John Pardon Simons Foundation John Pardon, 37, Stony Brook University Pardon works at the intersection of geometry (rigid shapes) and topology (bendy shapes). He has focused specifically on the nature of knots, which you can think of as tangled loops of rope that can only be untangled by cutting the rope. While an undergrad at Princeton, he answered a question that Mikhael Gromov, a Russian-French mathematician, had asked nearly 30 years earlier, in 1983: Can all knots, no matter how tangled, fit within a certain measure of how bendy the rope is? Pardon proved that they could not. Jacob Tsimerman Simons Foundation Jacob Tsimerman, 38, University of Toronto Tsimerman, who was born in Russia, is a number theorist. He’s best known for his work on the André-Oort conjecture, which helps describe higher-dimension objects called “Shimura varieties.” Those shapes are closely connected with “Diophantine equations,” including the one from Fermat’s last theorem: aⁿ + bⁿ = cⁿ. He admits that it’s tricky to explain what a number theorist does. But soon it won’t matter: He’s changing the focus of his research to artificial intelligence. He wants to make sure powerful A.I. models don’t run amok. Hong Wang Simons Foundation Hong Wang, 35, New York University Wang spends a lot of time thinking about long, thin tubes — not unlike uncooked spaghetti, she said. That’s because she works on a problem called the Kakeya conjecture, which ponders a set of needles pointing in all possible directions. You can’t change where needles point, but you can slide them around. Kakeya refers to Soichi Kakeya, a Japanese mathematician who started thinking about the problem in 1917. Building on his work, experts came to believe — but could never prove — that in three dimensions, the needles’ fractal dimension (a measure of pattern complexity) had to be exactly three. Wang showed last year that the conjecture is correct. Read more about her. Awkward timing The unusual age limit on the Fields means it is both a tribute to winners’ work and a bet on their future. These are the mathematicians to watch. Right now feels like a tough time to place such a bet: A.I. is mastering the sorts of projects that math prodigies have traditionally used to launch academic careers. This past Sunday, a mathematician disproved an 87-year-old conjecture using an A.I. model from Anthropic — while simultaneously watching the World Cup final. It’s hard not to catastrophize. A group of mathematicians published a public declaration last month acknowledging the benefits of A.I. while warning that it could threaten the discipline. Tsimerman, for one, says A.I. has doubled his math productivity. “I think,” he said, “it will very shortly become more capable than mathematicians in the act of mathematics.” THE FREE PRESS The New York Times building. Lucia Vazquez for The New York Times Under pressure from a federal judge, the Justice Department withdrew subpoenas that had sought phone records and grand jury testimony from Times journalists who reported on security issues related to Air Force One. Judge Arun Subramanian gave the government’s lawyers a stark choice — “Either we can quash the subpoenas, or you could withdraw the subpoenas” — and then proceeded to grill them for more than an hour about their zealousness, sloppiness and the request for records from one reporter’s mother and another’s spouse. The judge’s demeanor at times resembled that of a teacher scolding his pupils. He asked few questions of The Times’s lawyers; at one point, he even apologized to one of them. “We won,” our executive editor, Joe Kahn, wrote in an email to staff last night. “We will undoubtedly face new legal challenges in this volatile era. But today is a day to celebrate the role of a free press in a robust democracy and the legal structure that protects us.” THE LATEST NEWS In Washington The Trump administration’s 10 percent global tariffs expired at midnight — but new tariffs of around the same amount immediately replaced them on goods from more than 80 countries. A member of Vice President JD Vance’s security detail is under investigation on suspicion of compromising sensitive information, the Secret Service said. F.D.A. scientists advised against the widespread use of several peptide injections, before a panel voted to allow broad production of four. A showdown with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, may follow. Across the Country The government dropped a request for a list of Jewish people at the University of Pennsylvania, which it had said was part of a battle against antisemitism. ICE plans to open a detention center at a long-dormant North Carolina prison by the end of December, according to documents obtained by The Times. Since Andrew and Tristan Tate, manosphere influencers, were arrested in Miami this past weekend, many of their former right-wing allies have gone quiet. The two deny accusations against them including rape and sex trafficking. Middle East A day after signing a landmark nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia, Trump added a new condition that may make it fall apart. The president said the deal was “totally subject to” Saudi willingness to establish diplomatic relations with Israel. Officials in the kingdom have long said that would require a pathway toward Palestinian statehood. The price of oil hit $100 a barrel after the Iranian-backed Houthis attacked two Saudi tankers in the Red Sea. Stocks plunged. Notes: Data is as of 4:30 eastern Thursday. Source: FactSet. The New York Times Democratic lawmakers are urging Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to provide “a full and accurate accounting” of all U.S. casualties in the Iran war. Two of Iraq’s border crossings, into Iran and Kuwait, were attacked yesterday, according to officials and videos verified by The Times. It wasn’t clear who by. The House voted a second time to direct Trump to end the war or seek explicit authorization to continue it. “We’re trapped in hell”: Iranians say the war has upended their lives. Meet some of them. Around the World At Sensoji temple in Tokyo on Tuesday. Issei Kato/Reuters It’s so hot in Japan that the weather agency coined a new word — kokushobi, or “cruel heat day.” As Gen Z protests spread across India, videos and photos of a woman blocking a police van have become a national symbol. OPINIONS The New York Times Morris Katz, a strategist who’s advised Graham Platner and Zohran Mamdani, talks to Ezra Klein about Democrats, populism, and where it all went wrong in Maine. Haiti is a war zone. Deporting hundreds of thousands of Haitians from the United States will only destabilize the nation further, Lt. Gen. Russel L. Honoré writes. Deeply reported journalism needs your support. The Times relies on subscribers to help fund our mission. Become a subscriber today. 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AMC Theatres estimates that this year, buckets will generate $100 million in revenue, nearly double the level of 2023. Cinemark Theatres, the country’s third-largest chain, says bucket sales helped its merchandise revenue increase 40 percent from 2024 to 2025. I’ll say this: They hold a lot of popcorn. TODAY’S NUMBER 14 — That is how many Times articles the word “bollard” has appeared in this year. Can you use it in a sentence? SPORTS The World Cup failed to deliver the massive tourism windfall that host nations expected, though luxury travel and beer sales thrived. Good throw: A teenage English soccer player’s long throw-in went viral, highlighting how a once-mundane part of the game is becoming a key attacking weapon. See it here. RECIPE OF THE DAY Kelly Marshall for The New York Times Hari means “green” in Hindi and sees its apotheosis in hari chutney — a verdant, spicy blitz of cilantro, garlic and lemon juice. Combine that with butter and Parmesan to coat a pound of pasta, and you have hari chutney spaghetti, a candidate for your new favorite week-ending meal. SPIRITUAL POP Maiwenn Raoult for The New York Times Willow Smith, daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, is releasing a new album this week called “The Thread.” It’s her eighth solo album in 11 years, and the second of 2026. She’s 25. “I went into this album wanting the official genre to be ‘devotional,’” she told Jon Pareles, who covers pop music. “Each and every song, I’m singing to the holy mystery and giving praise.” THE MORNING RECOMMENDS Take the next step in your “Odyssey” journey — read these books. Cook outside, all the time, with the best gas grill tested by the pitmasters at Wirecutter — I was one of them! Take our news quiz. GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangrams were cofounded and confounded. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections, Crossplay and Strands. 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THIS DAY IN HISTORY July 24 1911 American historian encounters Machu Picchu ruins American archeologist Hiram Bingham gets his first look at the ruins of Machu Picchu, an ancient Inca settlement in Peru that is now one of the world’s top tourist destinations. read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT 19th Century 1847 Religious pioneers settle Salt Lake Valley American Revolution 1779 Massachusetts begins ill-fated Penobscot Expedition 1776 John Hancock scolds Major General Philip Schuyler Arts & Entertainment 1998 “Saving Private Ryan” opens in theaters 1901 Short story writer O. Henry is released from prison 1982 “Eye Of The Tiger” from “Rocky III” tops the U.S. pop charts Cold War 1959 Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev have a “kitchen debate” Early 20th Century U.S. 1915 Hundreds drown in Eastland disaster European History 1567 Mary Queen of Scots deposed Space Exploration 1969 Apollo 11 safely returns to Earth Sports 2005 Lance Armstrong wins seventh Tour de France World War II 1943 Operation Gomorrah is launched 1945 Truman hints to Stalin about a new weapon “of unusual destructive force”