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The following may be the link to the articile that I referenced above? https://spectrummagazine.org/views/catholic-or-adventist-ongoing-struggle-over-authority-95-theses/

Inflation cools more than expected in June as gas costs fall, underlying prices ease WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. inflation cooled last month as the cost of gas, clothes, and used cars fell, providing some relief to consumers, while underlying price pressures also slowed more than expected. https://apnews.com/article/inflation-trump-food-prices-gas-53d221aa918c466172af494ba7debc00? ps:Really? Well lets see, the price of gas about a week ago was on its way down!! First the price was $3.59, one day later 3.69 and than 3.89 now it is 3.99!! Going down?? I think not!!!!!

July 14, 2026 By Sam Sifton Good morning. There were tit-for-tat attacks across the Gulf region overnight, as the cease-fire in the war with Iran continues to collapse. That has narrowed President Trump’s options, our Peter Baker reports. And Pat Oliphant, the dean of American political cartoonists, has died at 90. There’s more news below. I’m going to start today, though, by looking at an escalation in the pressure that the Trump administration is putting on The Times. Doug Mills/The New York Times Air Force Ones Here’s a letter I got from a reader yesterday morning, reprinted in full: “You people need to cooperate with our administration because national security is a higher priority than a free unbridled press that thinks they can do whatever they want. Your reporters are shameful.” They are not, and that’s not how journalism works in the United States. But I don’t want to get ahead of myself. You may have already heard the basics of the reporting that led to that letter. But the story is still worth exploring, in part because of what it tells us about the challenges facing independent journalism in 2026. The Times reported last week that while President Trump flew to Turkey on July 7 for a NATO summit aboard his new Air Force One, he flew back the following day aboard the old Air Force One. The Times reported that the new Air Force One, a Qatari-donated Boeing 747-8, lacked some of the advanced security features of the older aircraft, including antimissile capabilities. The Times cited sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive security issues. For a U.S. president, it’s risky to fly internationally in a plane not hardened against attacks. The Trump administration, angered by the story and eager to flush out those who spoke to The Times, issued subpoenas on Friday night for journalists who reported it, seeking their testimony before a federal grand jury “in regard to an alleged violation of federal criminal law.” Those reporters are colleagues whose names you have seen often in this space: Julian Barnes, Adam Goldman, Eric Lipton, Tyler Pager and Eric Schmitt. The subpoenas were an escalation of Trump’s attempts to threaten and intimidate independent news organizations. “The appearance of federal law enforcement agents on the doorstep of news reporters should shock the conscience of any American who believes in the Constitution and the press freedom it protects,” David McCraw, our top newsroom lawyer, wrote in a statement that night. In a statement on Saturday, a Justice Department spokeswoman said that “reporters are not the targets, those leaking classified information are.” She continued, “We value and appreciate the important role that the press plays in this country, but D.O.J. also plays an important role to make sure that the people entrusted with our nation’s secrets do what they’re supposed to do with that information.” Yesterday, I talked about that with Dick Stevenson, The Times’s Washington bureau chief. Dick’s been in D.C., running coverage of the federal government, for the better part of 30 years. He knows well the tension that exists — that should exist — between journalists and administrations, whichever party is in office. And he was straightforward about where he and his team are right now. “Facing an administration and a president willing to go to great lengths to seek to impede what we do,” he told me, “only hardens our resolve to stick with our mission.” Public interest The new Air Force One, a gift from the Qatari royal family. Doug Mills/The New York Times Reporters tell readers things that powerful people don’t want you to know. They report what is in the public interest, a term of art that refers to information essential for an informed, safe and healthy society. Like, to share one example, whether the civilian airplane a foreign government donated to the United States a year ago is safe to fly under fire. Joe Kahn, our executive editor, put it more eloquently in a note he sent to the newsroom on Saturday: “The security of the jets used as Air Force One, which transport not only the president but also hundreds of government officials and staff, members of Congress, journalists and invited guests, is manifestly in the public interest.” The subpoenaed reporters, he continued, would keep doing their jobs, even as they defend themselves. And he urged an empathy for them that I’d urge readers of The Morning to practice as well. “However unjustified and unlawful these intimidation tactics are, the five of them will have to endure a period of scrutiny and legal uncertainty,” Joe wrote. “They should know that all of us as their colleagues, and the full resources of The Times, are behind them and that we will fight this legal abuse together.” Read the article that enraged the president, along with a few other terrific pieces that caught my eye today. We’ve made them all free links. College isn’t for everyone. Some members of Gen Z are headed to trade school instead. Here are their stories. J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye” turns 75 this week. Alexandra Jacobs checked in on “this spry codger of a novel that’s stayed on the dance floor long past when might be expected, leaping over book bans from the right and dodging cancellation from the left.” It’s a lovely read. Backyard Baseball, a video game beloved by ’90s kids, was off the market for years. Then a second-grade teacher brought it back to life. The business of hunting hurricanes in a turboprop airplane is deadly serious. So why is there a stuffed Muppet dangling from the windscreen? THE LATEST NEWS Immigration An ICE agent shot and killed a man in a vehicle in Biddeford, Maine. The state’s governor demanded a full investigation into the killing. The man an ICE agent killed in Houston last week, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, spent 35 years in the United States working in construction, raising a family and hoping to earn legal status, his family said. War in Iran Near the Strait of Hormuz yesterday. Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Trump said he would reimpose the U.S. blockade on the Strait of Hormuz and charge a 20 percent fee on goods passing through it. That could more than double the cost of shipping oil through the strait. Trump’s threat to impose fees contradicts statements from his top aides, who have said for weeks that no country can do so. In the Courts A judge ruled that Trump’s lawsuit against the I.R.S. was an improper exercise in self-dealing and barred him from claiming sweeping tax protections were part of a legitimate settlement. An appeals court revived hundreds of lawsuits against the makers of Tylenol, filed by families who claim children developed autism or A.D.H.D. after their mothers took the painkiller during pregnancy. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the United States was planning to “systematically disable” the International Criminal Court. Politics Darline Graham Nordone Grant Baldwin/Getty Images South Carolina’s governor appointed Lindsey Graham’s sister to temporarily fill his Senate seat after his death over the weekend. (Related: Read how Graham’s path from Trump critic to ally kept him a Washington heavyweight.) The Trump administration has rescinded its $10 billion freeze on child care subsidies and social services funding for five Democratic states after repeated setbacks in court. Other Big Stories Southern chains like Bojangles and Buc-ee’s have a new strategy to increase sales: install electric vehicle chargers. An agitated bison attacked a tourist at Yellowstone National Park, tossing him about eight feet into the air. The man broke several bones. Scientists have detected sugar deep in outer space for the first time. That could help explain the origins of life. Do you have a question about the news? We have answers. Ask us here, and we may feature your question in an upcoming newsletter. OPINIONS America’s housing crisis has a retirement crisis hidden inside it, Kyla Scanlon writes. The world must wake up to the horror in Sudan, the editorial board writes. Deeply reported journalism needs your support. The Times relies on subscribers to help fund our mission. Become a subscriber today. TODAY’S NUMBER Scott McIntyre for The New York Times 507 pounds — That is the dry weight of one of those giant flags a crew unveils before World Cup matches. Each flag measures about 174 feet by 125 feet. WORLD CUP France and Spain meet this afternoon in a semifinal that many will call the actual World Cup final. France’s coach said that Kylian Mbappé was “100 percent” fit after a quarterfinal injury scare. Despite the magnitude of this matchup, tomorrow’s semifinal between England and Argentina is a much hotter ticket. RECIPE OF THE DAY Julia Gartland for The New York Times I made Eric Kim’s recipe for cold noodles with tomatoes, but I replaced the noodles with matchstick cucumbers and added a hit of the green plum syrup known in Korea as maesil cheong because I read in one of his cookbooks that his mom uses the stuff all the time. I put the soup in the freezer for 30 minutes, then served it alongside a bowl of rice dressed in fried egg, butter and soy sauce and alternated bites of hot and slurps of cold. HIS NAME IS HOVA At Yankee Stadium on Friday. Lexi Parra/The New York Times Jon Caramanica, one of our pop music critics, went to all three Jay-Z concerts at Yankee Stadium this past weekend. Sunday night’s was deeply delayed, and the performance stretched toward 3 a.m. on Monday. Jon found it transcendent and dizzying to experience — “a deeply memorable entry in a long catalog of memorable events.” More on culture For centuries, the standard wood in bows for string instruments like violins and cellos has come from the pernambuco tree in Brazil. Its future is now uncertain. Michael Diamond, better known as Mike D, is back on the mic with a new album, 14 years after the death of Adam Yauch, his Beastie Boys bandmate. As The Times discovered, the return to performance took a nudge, and tour backing, from Diamond’s two sons. “It’s like the whole record’s therapy rap,” one of them said. “It’s really deep therapy concepts. We were just like, ‘That’s a sick vibe.’” Late night hosts were skeptical of Mitch McConnell’s recovery photo. The most clicked link in The Morning yesterday was a tour of the author Elin Hilderbrand’s Nantucket home. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS Read mystery novels from the Golden Age of crime. Sadie Stein, an editor at our Book Review, offers a starter pack. Ditch these myths about menopause that experts can’t stand. Cool your home more effectively than with an ancient, wheezing air-conditioner duct-taped into your living-room window. (That’s my setup, anyway.) The HVAC-curious investigators at Wirecutter found the best replacements. GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangram was committal. 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. 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👀 Trump wants to give more prime-time talks President Trump's prime-time Thursday speech from the White House is slated to include election integrity, an update on Iran and whatever else he deems important, a senior adviser tells Axios' Marc Caputo. "It will be a potpourri," the adviser says. Why it matters: Though ever-available to reporters, Trump hasn't given many prime-time, direct-to-camera speeches from the White House. He wants to do more of them, the adviser says. 🔎 Zoom in: Trump announced on Truth Social yesterday that he plans to give a "Speech to the Nation" on Thursday at 9 p.m. ET. The specifics beyond that — where in the White House and the exact topics — are less certain. But two issues are top of mind for Trump: Resumed hostilities with Iran. "It's changing by the minute, but it's something he wants to address," the adviser says. Election integrity. The president wants to pass the SAVE America Act, a strict voter ID law that's stalled in Congress. And he may present his intelligence officials' findings about the 2020 election, which Trump won't admit he lost. Trump's adviser denied online reports that the president plans to discuss Georgia's 2020 Senate elections that were won by two Democrats. 🥊 Reality check: You never know what Trump's going to talk about. He just wants to talk. And he wants to do more of it. "We want to get into the rhythm of doing this," the adviser says. "It's powerful when you give prime-time speeches that give a sense of importance to what he's saying."

THIS DAY IN HISTORY July 14 1789 French revolutionaries storm the Bastille Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops storm and dismantle the Bastille, a royal fortress and prison that had come to symbolize the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs, kicking off the French Revolution. read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT 19th Century 1882 Gunfighter John Ringo found dead Arts & Entertainment 1946 Dr. Spock publishes “The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care” Cold War 1963 Rupture between USSR and China grows worse Crime 1881 Billy the Kid is shot to death 2016 Terrorist drives truck through a Bastille Day celebration Hispanic History 1970 Young Lords occupy Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx Natural Disasters & Environment 1931 South Dakota governor begs for federal assistance over grasshopper plague Sports 1968 Hank Aaron hits 500th homer U.S. Government and Politics 1798 Sedition Act becomes federal law U.S. Presidents 1913 Future president Gerald R. Ford is born World War I 1918 Quentin Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt’s youngest son, is killed

🇨🇦 Parting shot: Oh, Canada! Photo: Amy Stern Copy editor Amy Stern captured Stratford, Ontario's Avon River at dusk on July 8. In the summer it stays light there until 9:30 p.m. Amy writes from Canada: It's been 8 years since I've been back in my beloved Stratford, home of the Stratford Festival. 🎭 I first came in 2000 as part of my quest to see all 38 of Shakespeare's plays performed. I have long since reached that goal, thanks also to the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. During more than 15 visits to Stratford, I've gotten to see one of the best repertory acting companies in North America. And I met my Ballantyne Ave. friends, who put up with my constant refrain: HE'S Canadian? (Neil Young), SHE'S Canadian? (Joni Mitchell). ❤️ Stratford will always have my heart. The Bard drew me here; my friends keep me coming back.

UK police rearrest the suspect in Ann Widdecombe killing on terrorism suspicion The killing of former British politician Ann Widdecombe is being investigated as a terrorist act, police said Monday. Read More.

Massive AI buildout poses latest inflation threat as consumers pay more for laptops and electricity American consumers — and the Federal Reserve — are being hit with another high-cost headache. Read More.

Dozens at an Ebola treatment center in Congo strike over unpaid salaries and bonuses Dozens of people working at an Ebola virus treatment center in northeast Congo went on strike Monday over unpaid salaries and bonuses, posing a new challenge for the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak ever recorded on the continent. Read More. Why the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history is becoming more challenging The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo is now the fastest-growing one in history, and new challenges keep emerging even as work begins on a study of two badly needed treatments for a type of Ebola that currently has none. Read More.

The cost of coal It’s been 13 years since the last large coal-fired power plant opened in the US. President Donald Trump’s administration wants to build two, but experts say that even with federal support, the price tag could be astronomical.

🍝 1 for the road: Pasta pass returns Courtesy Olive Garden Olive Garden is resurrecting its popular Never Ending Pasta Pass for the first time since 2019, Axios' Kelly Tyko reports. The offering helped pioneer the restaurant industry's subscription trend. 💵 Olive Garden will sell 10,000 Never Ending Pasta Passes for $100 each (plus tax) starting Thursday at 2 p.m. ET. Each pass includes 13 weeks of Never Ending Pasta Bowl meals, with unlimited pasta, homemade sauces and protein toppings, plus unlimited soup or salad and breadsticks. Dig in.

Graham's sister steps in South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) this afternoon appointed late Sen. Lindsey Graham's sister, Darline Graham Nordone, to fill Graham's seat on an interim basis after his unexpected death. That was President Trump's preferred outcome, Axios' Marc Caputo and Andrew Solender report. Trump has a close friendship and working relationship with McMaster. One senior adviser to Trump said: "McMaster listens to Trump, and Trump listens to McMaster." 🏛️ Graham's unexpected death made the GOP's Senate margin even slimmer, increasing the pressure to fill the seat ASAP. Picking a "placeholder" like Graham's sister gives the governor and president time to decide who to support during the primary. South Carolina Rep. Russell Fry (R) is a favorite candidate of some Trump insiders, who say he has good fundraising potential and a safe Republican seat. Fry's colleague, Rep. Joe Wilson (R), has also surfaced as a possibility. 👩‍💼 The intrigue: Rep. Nancy Mace (R), who came in fifth in the GOP gubernatorial primary, has drawn an exceedingly negative reaction from Trump's political operation by appearing to float her own name to replace Graham the morning his death was announced. One top official with Trump's political operation tells Axios: "If Mace ends up in a runoff, we'll drop $2 million on her head to keep her out." What they're saying: Mace tells Axios that she's being unfairly singled out, noting that Graham's former primary opponent Mark Lynch and Republican Rep. Ralph Norman also had floated their names. 📆 What's next: South Carolina will hold a GOP primary on Aug. 11 to pick a new Republican nominee for the Senate. The winner of the Nov. 3 election will take over Graham's old seat in January. Go deeper.

Feds turn over evidence in Renee Good and Alex Pretti killings to Minnesota after months of delay Federal prosecutors turned over key evidence long sought by Minnesota investigators in their ongoing probe into the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti during pitched protests against an immigration enforcement crackdown earlier this year, state prosecutors announced Monday. https://apnews.com/article/immigration-enforcement-minnesota-alex-pretti-renee-good-21835226891f2a8d91710519b457031d? ICE officer who fatally shot driver in Maine was ‘fearing for public safety,’ agency says BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) — An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot a motorist in Maine on Monday, the second time in a week that ICE has used deadly force and at least the ninth death since President Donald Trump began his immigration crackdown. https://apnews.com/article/ice-shooting-maine-immigration-dhs-f26f8c2256aa6f0748582ea4adbb515c?

Trump Sons’ Jaw-Dropping Pentagon Cash-In Exposed Eric and Donald Trump Jr. are backing firms making billions from spending priorities set by their father. President Donald Trump’s sons, Eric and Donald Trump Jr., have poured money into more than a dozen federal defense contractors that are collectively making billions from their father’s administration. A Washington Post analysis published Monday reveals that those firms have raked in more than $3.2 billion in Pentagon deals under the second Trump administration. Most of Eric and Donald Jr.’s investments came after President Trump, 80, retook the White House last year. The firms have also secured $3.1 billion in potential future work, along with the right to “bid exclusively” for up to $200 billion more. Eric, 42, and Donald Jr., 48, cast their investments as acts of “patriotic capitalism,” claiming they’re helping to defend the U.S. against enemy threats. Neither Donald Jr. nor Eric had any great experience in the defense sector before they began investing in companies seeking federal contracts. White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly insisted “there are no conflicts of interest” and that the Washington Post report represents “the same, tired narrative that Democrats have pushed against President Trump, his family, and his administration for a decade.” The brothers’ profits come from companies cashing in on spending priorities the Pentagon says are designed to modernize military systems and assets. That push “prioritizes smaller, nimbler weaponry” like drones, the Post reports. It was already “well underway” under Joe Biden, and Trump has now “turbocharged” the drive. The money moves through two vehicles: 1789 Capital, where Donald Jr. signed on as a partner days after his dad’s win, and American Ventures, Eric’s outfit run out of Dominari Holdings, which is based inside Trump Tower. Two names dominate the haul. SpaceX and Anduril—run by MAGA allies Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey, respectively—make up 97 percent of the direct government cash the Post tallied, plus 42 percent of the promised future work. Strip those two out, and 13 lesser-known start-ups still cornered almost $1.8 billion in long-term Pentagon commitments. Companies that answered the Post said they won their contracts on merit, with no help from Trump’s family. Of the 15 firms, 10 already held federal work before the brothers invested. Eight had deals under Biden. Trump Jr. has openly touted his sway over Pentagon decisions. At an event last year, he said he “helped craft some of [the department’s] messaging,” according to the Post. He has also steered Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth toward DoD hires eager to spend on drones. The Daily Beast has contacted the White House, the Pentagon, and the Trump Organization for comment on this story. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-sons-eric-and-donald-trump-junior-cashing-in-on-defense-tech-as-war-with-iran-rages/?

The appellate court upheld the dismissal of aviation employees' challenges to pandemic-era workplace restrictions while strongly condemning their attorney's reliance on fabricated legal research. The post Eleventh Circuit Affirms Dismissal in Airline Vaccine Mandate Suit, Sanctions Counsel for AI-Generated Citations appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

Judge says Trump IRS lawsuit was filed for ‘improper purpose,’ refers lawyer for possible discipline WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over his leaked tax returns was filed for an “improper purpose,” a judge said Monday as she referred one of his lawyers for potential disciplinary action and characterized the $10 billion complaint as an exercise in self-dealing. https://apnews.com/article/trump-irs-justice-department-61adebe5de8982eb214b30889ad4f251? 12 states challenge Paramount’s takeover of Warner, say merger would ‘extinguish competition’ NEW YORK (AP) — Twelve states sued to block Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery on Monday, arguing that the $81 billion merger would “extinguish competition” in Hollywood and lead to fewer choices for consumers across the U.S. https://apnews.com/article/paramount-warner-bros-antitrust-ce87c4c10c956cbb5d98cdc7e954126b?

US attacks Iran and Tehran retaliates across the Middle East as both vie for control of strait DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. launched strikes on Iran early Tuesday morning, hours after President Donald Trump said Washington is “reinstating” a blockade on Iran in the Strait of Hormuz. Trump separately suggested the United States will charge other ships for safe passage, upending hundreds of years of American policy supporting freedom of navigation across the globe. https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-hormuz-strait-war-july-13-2026-6c2c44cfdd089d6393d18fa5930ed620?

👋 Good morning! Welcome back. In today's edition: The World Cup semis are set, Wemby signs the max (but not the supermax), Sinner and Nosková crowned champs, Ryu wins another major, Seahawks sold, sluggers take the field, and more. Yahoo Sports AM is written by Kendall Baker and Jeff Tracy. Let's sports...   🚨 ICYMI HEADLINES 🏀 Wemby signs historic deal: Victor Wembanyama signed the largest rookie extension in NBA history (5 years, $252 million), though it's smaller than it could have been as he opted for the max (25% of the cap) rather than the supermax (30%) to give the Spurs more financial flexibility. ⚾️ ASG headlines: Phillies lefty Cristopher Sánchez and Blue Jays righty Dylan Cease are your All-Star Game starting pitchers; Shohei Ohtani (left knee irritation) will not participate in the game; Phillies ace Zack Wheeler (10-1, 2.13 ERA) declined an invite as a replacement player, saying he felt "disrespected" by his initial snub. ⚾️ MLB Draft recap: The White Sox took UCLA SS Roch Cholowsky first overall in the 2026 MLB Draft, which featured 613 selections including some familiar names drafted to familiar places like Barry Bonds' nephew Peyton Bonds (Giants), Andy Pettitte's son Luke (Yankees), Jim Thome's son Landon (White Sox) and CC Sabathia's son Carsten III (Brewers). 🏀 Heated altercation: Heat star Bam Adebayo shoved and punched Bucks guard (and former Miami teammate) Tyler Herro on Friday at a practice court in Las Vegas. The altercation reportedly stemmed from critical comments Herro made on social media about Adebayo after the former was traded to Milwaukee last month. ⚽️ More expansion coming? As the first 48-team World Cup nears its end, FIFA president Gianni Infantino appears to already be considering another round of expansion, telling a Swiss broadcaster over the weekend that 64 teams "will be examined" for the 2030 World Cup.   ⚽️ WORLD CUP AND THEN THERE WERE FOUR (Yahoo Sports) Spain, England and Argentina joined France in the semifinals over the weekend, setting up the chalkiest final four in World Cup history. 1, 2, 3, 4: For the first time ever, the World Cup semifinals feature the world's top four teams (No. 1 France, No. 2 Argentina, No. 3 Spain, No. 4 England), delivering a dream scenario for fans in a tournament that has so frequently made us pinch ourselves. From the star-studded Golden Boot race to the world's best teams routinely proving their mettle, this World Cup has thoroughly exceeded its high expectations. And it's not over yet. Here's how La Roja, the Three Lions and La Albiceleste punched their tickets to the semis… (Paul Ellis/AFP via Getty Images) Los Angeles — Spain defeated Belgium 2-1 on Friday afternoon thanks to yet another late-game goal from Mikel Merino, as the Arsenal maestro again saved the day when he pounced on a rebound spilled by Belgium's substitute goalkeeper in the 88th minute. La Roja's historic streak: Charles De Ketelaere's first-half equalizer was the first World Cup goal allowed by Spain since the 2022 group stage, a run of 649 consecutive scoreless minutes that marked the longest in tournament history. More importantly, La Roja are now unbeaten in their last 36 (!) matches, and sit two wins shy of another title. (Richard Pelham/Getty Images) Miami — England vanquished Norway 2-1 on Saturday behind the strength of a Jude Bellingham brace — and perhaps a rogue overhead camera cable — forcing America to bid a tearful goodbye to its new Viking icon, Erling Haaland. Hey Jude: Real Madrid's talismanic midfielder has scored four of England's last five goals, willing his side to victory by marrying his otherworldly talent with a grit that imbues the Three Lions with a fighting edge. That same doggedness has enabled England's defense to protect narrow leads through the dying moments of knockdown brawls in stifling heat. Alexis Mac Allister celebrates scoring Argentina's first goal. (Robbie Jay Barratt/AMA/Getty Images) Kansas City — Argentina has developed a troubling preference for doing things the hard way, outlasting Switzerland 3-1 in extra time of a cagey quarterfinal. And though Lionel Messi failed to find the back of the net for the first time in 10 World Cup games, he did provide a record 10th career World Cup assist on a perfectly-placed corner kick. Cake walk: Argentina is the first nation to reach the World Cup semifinals without facing a single team ranked in the top 10. Despite that historically easy draw, the defending champions have made the path look unusually difficult. But their confidence has scarcely wavered, buoyed by the cohesion and belief built over the course of multiple tournaments in the trenches… and by the presence of their inimitable No. 10. Looking ahead: The semifinals kick off tomorrow with France vs. Spain in Dallas; then it's England vs. Argentina in Atlanta on Wednesday, with the final coming this Sunday at MetLife Stadium.   🎾 WIMBLEDON SINNER, NOSKOVÁ CROWNED CHAMPS (Clive Brunskill/Getty Images) Jannik Sinner fought back from a set down against Alexander Zverev on Sunday to win his second straight Wimbledon title and fifth Career Grand Slam. It's the type of result you expect from the world No. 1 and budding all-time great, putting him back on pace for a historic season after his early exit at Roland Garros. It would just be nice if his biggest rival were healthy. Dan Wolken, Yahoo Sports: While Sinner was laying waste to this Wimbledon field, dropping just three sets en route to the title, videos emerged of Carlos Alcaraz back in Spain, just starting to lightly swing a tennis racket again after recovering from an inflamed tendon sheath in his right wrist. It is unclear if Alcaraz will be ready to come back by the US Open, which starts in seven weeks. For a tennis player, wrist injuries are nothing to mess around with. But as much as Sinner has enjoyed hoovering up trophies while Alcaraz is sidelined, he should root for his nemesis to return to form as quickly as possible. Because while Sinner's greatness stands on its own, the respect and admiration for his achievements this year does not. Though there are no asterisks in tennis — you can only beat who's in front of you, and every Grand Slam title counts the same — Sinner and Alcaraz are so linked that the absence of one inevitably diminishes any achievements of the other. With all due respect to Zverev, the newly minted French Open champion who played at an extremely high level for the first 90 minutes of Sunday's final, there are only two players in men's tennis who move the needle right now. Zverev is not one of them. At the end of last season, when Alcaraz and Sinner played a third straight major final against each other in New York, some fans wondered if it might get boring if they separated from the field without another worthy rival coming into the mix. But here's the reality of men's tennis: While Zverev is a clear No. 3 and can beat either one on a given day, the only truly compelling storyline in the sport is the race to history between Alcaraz and Sinner. And we can't really measure it when one of them is at a training center hitting Nerf balls. (Cameron Spencer/Getty Images) Meanwhile, on the women's side: Linda Nosková defeated her friend and fellow Czech countrywoman Karolína Muchová to win her first Grand Slam title, rebounding from what could have been an all-time collapse to complete the three-set victory. ICYMI: Nosková led 6-2, 5-2 when Muchová came roaring back, saving three match points at 2-5, one match point at 3-5 and one more at 4-5 before winning the set to force a decider. But that was as close as she'd come, with Nosková regrouping to win the third set, 6-3, and claim the title. Zoom out: Nosková's victory continued Czechia's unlikely dominance in this tournament, as three of the last four champions — and five of the last 15 — have hailed from the small Central European nation. It also extended a streak of nine consecutive first-time Wimbledon women's champions dating back to 2017.   ⛳️ GOLF ROUNDUP RYU WINS AGAIN AS NELLY, SCOTTIE STUMBLE (Stuart Franklin/Getty Images) The summer of Haeran Ryu continued on Sunday at the Evian Championship, where the South Korean held off a surging Brooke Henderson in a playoff to win her second straight major. Thrilling finish: The final grouping of Ryu, Henderson and Aki Iwai all came to the 72nd hole with a chance to reach a three-way playoff, but Iwai's par (-18) kept her one stroke out of contention after Ryu's birdie (-19) and Henderson's eagle (-19), which put a stamp on one of the best final rounds you'll ever see, even in defeat. The 28-year-old Canadian shot a 7-under 64, carding three birdies and three eagles, including an ace on the par-3 eighth and the aforementioned must-make eagle at the last. Her six eagles during the week set an LPGA record for the most in a single major championship. But Ryu — who shot a 60 on Saturday for the lowest round ever in an LPGA major — would not relent, birdieing the first playoff hole to claim victory. Two in a row: Ryu is the first woman since Lydia Ko in 2016 to win her first two career majors in consecutive starts, having also won the Women's PGA Championship two weeks ago. This is also the first year in LPGA history in which two women won multiple majors; but Nelly Korda, who won the season's first two majors, was part of a much different kind of history last week… (Ross Parker/SNS Group via Getty Images) No. 1 and done: Korda (at the Evian) and Scottie Scheffler (at the Scottish Open*) both failed to reach the weekend, marking the first time since women's golf rankings were introduced in 2006 that the top-ranked man and woman both missed the cut in the same week. But wait, there's more: It's not just that Nelly and Scottie both missed the cut; it's that they entered the week with a combined streak of 112 consecutive made cuts! Korda hadn't missed a cut in two years (34 straight), with her last miss coming in the 2024 Women's PGA Championship. But she often struggles at the Evian, where she'd finished outside the top 25 each of the last two years and has never finished higher than eighth. Scheffler hadn't missed one in four years (!), with his run of 78 straight marking the fifth-longest streak ever. His last miss came 1,428 days earlier at the 2022 FedEx St. Jude Championship, which was so long ago that neither Jannik Sinner nor Carlos Alcaraz had won a Grand Slam yet. After Sinner's victory on Sunday, they've since combined for 12. Looking ahead: The even-keeled Scheffler didn't put much stock in the missed cut, focusing instead on the silver lining of arriving at Royal Birkdale earlier than expected to prepare for this week's Open Championship, where he'll look to defend his title. Korda, meanwhile, will take on the Women's Open just a couple weeks later, where a win would give her the Career Grand Slam and a spot in the Hall of Fame — the same stakes she came into the Evian with. *Kim wins Scottish Open: Tom Kim (-17) won by two strokes over Min Woo Lee (-15) for his first PGA Tour victory in three years. Of note: Among the four players tied for third (-13) was Matt Fitzpatrick, whose 28 consecutive made cuts is now the longest active streak on the Tour.   💯 STAT SHEET BIG NUMBERS (Ric Tapia/Getty Images) 🏈 $9.6 billion The reigning Super Bowl champion Seahawks have been sold by the estate of the late Paul Allen for $9.6 billion, shattering the previous record for the most expensive NFL team sale (Commanders, $6.05B in 2023). The franchise was sold to an ownership group led by Vinod Khosla, a limited partner in the 49ers who will have to relinquish his minority stake in that team before taking over as the Seahawks' controlling owner. Trending (way) up: While this sale fell just short of the record for the most expensive across all sports (Lakers, $10B in 2025), it continued what's been an exponential increase in NFL sale prices. Consider that it took nine years for the most expensive sale to go from $1.1 billion (Dolphins, 2009) to $2.3 billion (Panthers, 2018), then doubled four years later to $4.65 billion (Broncos, 2022) and has now doubled again four years after that. ⚾️ 27 blown saves The Nationals suffered their 26th and 27th blown saves of the season this weekend — by far the most in baseball, and exactly half of their MLB-high 54 save opportunities — en route to getting swept by the Yankees. That ignominious tally is just 10 shy of matching the single-season MLB record, which they seem likely to blow past given they still have 65 games left. Jekyll and Hyde: The Nationals' late-inning implosions — particularly at home, where their ERA in the eighth inning or later is 8.10 — are even more stark when compared to their unexpectedly good offense, which leads the majors with 516 runs scored. That unlikely paradox of having the most runs scored and the third-most allowed (509) has yielded a team that continues hovering right around .500 (48-49), but will have trouble contending for a wild card (currently 4 GB) unless its bullpen improves from terrible to merely bad. (Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC) 👊 69 seconds Conor McGregor went down without a fight, literally, in his long-awaited return to the Octagon, blowing out his knee in the opening moments of Saturday's bout against Max Holloway at UFC 329. The 37-year-old Irishman tried pushing through, but the referee was ultimately forced to wave off the contest after just 69 seconds. Déjà vu: McGregor infamously tore his ACL in his first fight against Holloway back in 2013, which he impressively still won via unanimous decision. More recently, his last fight prior to Saturday was 2021's trilogy bout against Dustin Poirier, which ended when the Irishman broke his leg in gruesome fashion. Now, this. "I am beyond dark here," McGregor said later on social media. "I can only describe it as hell." 🏀 20,996 fans The WNBA has a new regular-season attendance record, as 20,996 people packed into Montreal's Bell Centre on Friday to watch the Wings' victory over the Tempo. The game was part of the Tempo's "Cross-Canada Series," an effort by the Toronto expansion franchise to introduce the team to other parts of the country. They played another game in Montreal on Sunday (a win over the Liberty), and will play two more next month in Vancouver. More history in the W: The Aces beat the Mercury 106-58 on Saturday, a 48-point blowout that stands as the third-largest margin of victory in WNBA history. The Lynx hold the record with a 59-point win over the Fever in 2017, and these very Aces suffered the second-worst defeat last year, a 53-point loss that was followed by 16 straight wins and, ultimately, a championship.   📺 VIEWING GUIDE WATCHLIST: MONDAY, JULY 13 (Ethan Palowitz/Yahoo Sports) ⚾️ Home Run Derby The Home Run Derby is tonight in Philadelphia (8pm ET, Netflix), where for the first time since 2014 the competition will use a swing-based (instead of a clock-based) format. Each player gets 20 swings in the first round, with the top four advancing to the head-to-head semifinals. The semis and finals feature just 15 swings per batter, with the caveat that in all three rounds, players who homer on their final swing get to keep going until they don't hit one out. Who's in? Phillies DH Kyle Schwarber (league-leading 32 HR this season) will try joining the rare club of players to win the Derby at their home ballpark, while teammate Bryce Harper (20) will try doing so again after winning in D.C. as a National in 2018. The other six: Yankees 1B Ben Rice (29), Rays 3B Junior Caminero (28), Cardinals RF Jordan Walker (22), White Sox 1B Munetaka Murakami (20), Red Sox 1B Willson Contreras (20), Royals RF Jac Caglianone (15). More to watch: 🏀 WNBA: Sparks at Dream (7pm, USA); Mercury at Lynx (9pm, NBCSN/Peacock) … Lynx rookie Olivia Miles on Saturday became the fastest player in WNBA history to reach 350 points, 100 rebounds and 100 assists (21 games). 🏀 NBA Summer League: Bulls vs. Jazz (9pm, ESPN) … Chicago's Caleb Wilson, the No. 4 overall pick, scored 35 points in his debut on Friday. That included hitting seven 3-pointers, matching his total from his entire freshman season at UNC, where that "just wasn't my role." Got plans tonight? Gametime is the best place to score last-minute tickets to the events in your city.   🎾 WIMBLEDON TENNIS TRIVIA (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images) Jannik Sinner's Wimbledon victory on Sunday extended a streak in which just six men have won at the All England Club since 2003: Roger Federer (8x), Novak Djokovic (7x), Rafael Nadal (2x), Andy Murray (2x), Carlos Alcaraz (2x) and Sinner (2x). Question: Can you name the 2002 men's singles champion? Hint: Australian. Answer at the bottom.   ⚾️ RISING STAR TRISTAN PETERS, TAKE A BOW Peters gets a Gatorade bath after his incredible performance. (Geoff Stellfox/Getty Images) White Sox rookie Tristan Peters hit for one of the rarest cycles in MLB history on Friday, becoming the fifth player to achieve the feat as the No. 9 hitter and the third in the Expansion Era (since 1961) to complete his cycle by getting two hits in the same inning. And before you ask, yes, those hits were his home run and triple. Hey now, you're an All-Star: Peters was a 2021 seventh-rounder who didn't make his MLB debut until last season with the Rays, and didn't get a real shot until this season with the White Sox. Safe to say the centerfielder has made the most of it, as he's put up an .832 OPS in 91 games and was named to the All-Star team the day after his cycle. You absolutely love to see it.   Trivia answer: Lleyton Hewitt

Trump Honors ‘Dear Friend’ Graham With a Tribute to Himself The president found a way to make himself the center of attention. President Donald Trump paid tribute to Lindsey Graham—but not without managing to praise himself in the process. The 71-year-old South Carolina senator died on Saturday night. His office said a preliminary examination conducted by the medical examiner found he died from an “Aortic Dissection due to Arteriosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease.” Trump, 80, initially posted on Truth Social at 3:21 a.m Sunday after hearing the shock news. He wrote, “Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the greatest people and Senators I have ever known, is dead! He was always working, and was a true American Patriot. Lindsey will be greatly missed!!!” In another post, he ordered “all American Flags throughout the United States lowered to Half Mast until Saturday evening at 6 P.M,” in honor of his “dear friend” and “truly great man” Graham. Trump shared the flag post three times, on the last adding a video of a flag at the White House being lowered. At 9:10 p.m. Sunday, Trump shared an image of Graham with the caption “So sad!!! President DJT.” The White House shared the post, adding, “Senator Lindsey Graham will be greatly missed!” While Trump did not include a photo of himself, he chose one in which Graham is holding a large printed version of a fake Wikipedia profile page from January that shows Trump as the “Acting President of Venezuela.”Graham is smiling in the undated image, and wearing a black cap that reads “Make Iran Great Again.” Trump first posted the digitally altered image on his Truth Social page on Jan. 11. The previous week, Trump had launched Operation Absolute Resolve, in which U.S. forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and transported them to New York to face narco-terrorism charges. Trump has a history of making aides print hard copies of documents that take his fancy. His 34-year-old adoring aide, Natalie Harp, has earned the nickname “human printer” for her role following Trump around, fulfilling his every request, including fetching merchandise, performing Google searches, printing stories from right-wing websites, and suggesting possible Truth Social posts. Trump phoned into Jake Tapper’s State of the Union on CNN on Sunday to speak about Graham and shared details of their final phone call. “It’s devastating, I thought he was fine. He called me last night, he just got back from Ukraine, he had a great trip, he was telling me about the trip... he was full of vim and vigor.” Trump added, “He was tired... because it’s a long trip but other than that he was fine. He called me, I guess, just moments before... what a terrible loss.” Despite Sunday’s glowing tributes, Trump and Graham had a complicated history over the last decade. Both men ran for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. Graham called Trump a “jackass,” a “race-baiting, xenophobic religious bigot,” and warned he would destroy the Republican Party. After Trump won the White House in 2016, the pair were convinced into a “make-up” lunch in March 2017, according to New York magazine, and they became fast friends by 2018 and regular partners on Trump’s golf courses. Trump admitted that Graham used to be a “great enemy” but was now a “great friend.” “I really like Lindsey. Can you believe it? I never thought I’d say that, but I do.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-honors-dear-friend-lindsey-graham-with-a-tribute-to-himself/?

Delusional Trump, 80, Dreams Up Approval Figures as Disaster Looms The president seemingly plucked a number showing how popular he is out of thin air. Donald Trump has found a new way of self-soothing—by swapping around his approval and disapproval ratings to make himself sound more popular. In a Sunday night Truth Social post, the 80-year-old president boasted about his “59 percent” approval rating, which he attributed to “prices coming down along with the lowering of oil and gas.” However, there are no reputable polls showing Trump with anything close to a 59 percent approval rating. In fact, several surveys published over the last few weeks show the president’s disapproval rating is closer to 59 percent, and in some cases even higher. There have been repeated warnings that Trump’s poor approval rating and handling of the economy are likely to have a disastrous effect on the GOP in November’s midterms, with Republicans facing a potential electoral wipeout in the crucial nationwide elections. According to Silver Bulletin, Nate Silver’s polling and election-forecasting Substack, Trump’s current national average approval rating is a dire 40.1 percent, while his disapproval rating stands at 56.5 percent. The last time Trump’s average approval rating was above 50 percent was in February 2025, with the deeply unpopular war in Iran and rising gas prices helping drive the president’s national average down into the high 30s at times. Multiple polls published in June and July, which are included in Silver Bulletin’s average, show the president with approval ratings that do not come close to the 59 percent Trump claimed. A TIPP Insights survey of 1,473 U.S. adults, published on July 6, found Trump with just a 38 percent approval rating, compared with a 54 percent disapproval rating. A July YouGov/The Economist survey also revealed similarly dire numbers for the president, with 35 percent of Americans approving of Trump’s job performance and a whopping 61 percent disapproving. There has not been a single poll within 10 percentage points of the 59 percent approval rating Trump claims to have recorded since early June. The closest is a Zogby Analytics survey from early July, which found Trump with a 47 percent approval rating and a 57 percent disapproval rating. Even Rasmussen Reports, one of Trump’s favored polling firms that often skews results to favor GOP candidates, cannot mask how unpopular the president is with Americans. Rasmussen’s latest numbers put Trump’s approval rating at 45 percent and his total disapproval at 54 percent, including 43 percent who said they “strongly disapprove” of his performance as president. Whit Ayres, a leading Republican pollster, warned that historical precedent suggests the GOP is likely to lose control of the House in the midterms because of the president’s poor approval ratings. “We know that the party in power tends to lose House seats in a midterm election, but the number of seats lost is highly correlated with the president’s popularity,” Ayres told The Hill. “When presidential job approval is above 50 percent, the average loss of House seats for his party is 14. When it’s below 50 percent, the average loss of House seats for his party is 32.” The Daily Beast has contacted the White House for comment. https://www.thedailybeast.com/delusional-trump-80-dreams-up-approval-figures-as-disaster-looms/?

Trump Crisis Spirals as He Kills His Own Deal His goons are trying to put the pieces back together. Donald Trump is showing the world just how “over” his peace deal with Iran is—as mediators scrabble to salvage talks for an end to the conflict. Washington and Tehran both insisted Monday that they alone control the Strait of Hormuz after an intense exchange of fire over the weekend. The vital waterway in the Persian Gulf transports around a fifth of global oil supplies each year and its closure has sent gas prices sharply higher at the pump. Things kicked off after Iran attacked a container ship on Saturday, with hostilities continuing into Monday morning, the New York Times reports. U.S. military officials say they carried out 140 strikes in an immediate response, with a smaller number of rockets also fired on Sunday. Iran now says it is targeting American military forces stationed in neighboring allied countries like Oman, Jordan, Kuwait, and Bahrain. President Trump, 80, tried to calm nerves Sunday during an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press. “We bombed the hell out of them last night,” he told the network, insisting that the strait remains open. The Associated Press reports that mediators from Egypt, Pakistan, and Qatar have pushed hard to keep the two sides at the negotiating table. “A regional official involved in mediation, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss talks, said efforts to shore up the ceasefire continued Sunday,” the outlet writes. “Pakistan said its foreign minister spoke by phone with Iran’s top diplomat and urged ‘de-escalation’ on both sides.” The current flare-up began last week when Iran attacked a number of tankers in the waterway on Tuesday night. Trump responded on Wednesday by declaring his tentative ceasefire agreement, struck last month, was “over.” He promised that “every time they hit us, we’re going to hit them 20 to one.” The U.S. launched 170 strikes between Wednesday and Thursday. The president has been more evasive about whether the exchange of strikes means a return to full war. “I don’t know,” Trump told reporters that evening en route back from last week’s NATO summit in Turkey. “We’d win it very quickly.” He then appeared to undercut that statement with a Truth Social post on Friday declaring that “the U.S. military is ready, willing, and able” to “completely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran.” His post suggested any renewed campaign could last for “a one year period of time, subject to extension.” The Daily Beast has contacted the White House for comment on this story. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-crisis-spirals-after-killing-his-own-deal-to-end-the-war-he-started-with-iran/? ps:How pathetic!!

Lost Christian Town Emerges from Egypt’s Western Desert The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery of a well-preserved Byzantine-era settlement at the site of Ein Sabeel in the Dakhla Oasis. The archaeologists uncovered a residential town with carefully planned streets and a mid-fourth-century CE basilica at its center. They also found the remains of town squares, an enclosure with thick defensive walls, and two watchtowers. These features suggest a settlement that combined religious, domestic, and defensive functions in a remote desert environment during Christianity’s formative years following the rise of Constantine the Great (306–337 CE). Evidence of daily life in Byzantine Ein Sabeel is also evident through domestic artifacts, ostraca, and Roman coins. https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-egypt/lost-christian-town-emerges-from-egypts-western-desert/?

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Man who killed Dartmouth professors at 17 to get a chance at parole in about 20 years, judge rules CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A Vermont man who was 17 when he and a friend killed a pair of married Dartmouth College professors 25 years ago will have a chance at parole in about 20 years, when he reaches the age of one of his victims, a judge ruled Monday.https://apnews.com/article/dartmouth-zantop-murders-tulloch-juvenile-life-sentence-09f9dd7868602151397ad8f60b829845?