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🛻 Just over 1 million Jeep Wranglers and Gladiators are being recalled over a potential fire hazard. Owners are advised to "park away from structures or other vehicles" until the problem is fixed. See the notice.

📉 Another sharp sell-off hit tech stocks today, with some AI-related shares posting double-digit losses shortly after noon ET. Go deeper.

🎤 President Trump's comment that he doesn't "care" about the midterms has been misinterpreted, National Republican Congressional Committee Chair Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) said at an Axios AM Live event today. "He cares deeply about what people are going through," Hudson told Axios' Kate Santaliz. Go deeper.

🚀 Artemis III crew unveiled The Artemis III crew. From left: Andre Douglas, Luca Parmitano, Randy Bresnik, Frank Rubio. Photo: NASA/Bill Stafford NASA today revealed the roster for Artemis III, the next mission in the agency's quest to return humans to the Moon's surface, Axios' Alex Fitzpatrick reports. Artemis III, set for next year, will involve key tests of one or both lunar landers from SpaceX and Blue Origin, in Earth orbit. 🧑‍🚀 The crew: Mission specialist and first-time astronaut Andre Douglas. Mission specialist and record-setting astronaut U.S. Army Col. Frank Rubio. Pilot Luca Parmitano, an Italian Air Force colonel and onetime ISS commander. Commander Randy Bresnik, a longtime NASA astronaut and retired U.S. Marine Corps colonel. 💺 NASA astronaut Bob Hines is on backup duty, training alongside the main quartet in case he's needed. The all-male crew is a departure from Artemis II, when Christina Koch became the first woman to travel beyond low Earth orbit. 🧐 Reality check: Neither SpaceX nor Blue Origin's landers are ready yet, and the mission date could slip. Go deeper.

Anthropic's most powerful AI yet Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios Anthropic is releasing a general-use Mythos-class AI model with better capabilities than anything it's published before, Axios' Madison Mills and Sam Sabin report. The company once deemed this new class of model so disruptive that existing safeguards were insufficient, and it restricted access to just a handful of trusted organizations. Now it's releasing a public version less than three months later. 🤖 The new Fable 5 model is better at knowledge work, software engineering, scientific research and more — outscoring competing models from OpenAI and Google DeepMind, Anthropic says. It includes safeguards to prevent coders from using it to hack infrastructure or ask about sensitive biological capabilities. 👾 Dianne Penn, Anthropic's head of product management, research and labs, says the company ran Fable 5 through internal and external testing to ensure safety. Penn added that Anthropic is being "deliberately more conservative" at launch. Some legitimate scientific or security work could be routed to the company's older, less-capable models — at least for now. 🤑 Fable 5 costs twice as much as Anthropic's Opus models. That makes it the company's most expensive offering yet, at a time when some users and companies are facing ballooning AI budgets. Anthropic argues that the more powerful model translates to a lower cost per task. Go deeper ...

US strikes Iran after Trump blames Tehran for downing Army helicopter DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. military said Wednesday it had completed its airstrikes on Iran after the crash of an American helicopter off Oman that it had blamed on Tehran. https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-ceasefire-helicopter-hezbollah-israel-9-june-2026-50d7a8ecbb2cf33836af152679adb40e?

👋 Good morning! For the first time in nearly seven weeks, the Knicks lost a basketball game. In today's edition: Spurs avoid 3-0 hole, MLB in Vegas, a dark day in college sports, American Outlaws, college baseball parity, and more. Yahoo Sports AM is written by Kendall Baker and Jeff Tracy. Let's sports...   🚨 ICYMI HEADLINES ⚾️ Sin City slugfest: The Athletics began a six-game homestand in Las Vegas on Monday as a preview for their 2028 relocation, and the opener against the Brewers turned into the wildest game of the season. Milwaukee won, 15-14, in a 12-inning affair that featured 11 home runs, 34 hits and five lead changes. 🇺🇸 Warm welcome: The USMNT arrived at their training camp in Irvine, California, on Monday, where 5,500 supporters — who won a lottery to attend the workout — welcomed them to Great Park. The 194-acre sports complex will be their home base for the duration of the World Cup. 🥎 Record viewership: Game 2 of the Women's College World Series, which saw Texas beat Texas Tech for its second straight national title, averaged 2.5 million viewers on ESPN, making it the most-watched college softball game ever. 🏒 Kings hire Laviolette: The Kings are hiring Peter Laviolette as their next head coach after he spent the last year out of the league following his firing from the Rangers. Laviolette, 61, has won 846 games as an NHL head coach (seventh-most) and one Stanley Cup (2006, Hurricanes). 🎾 Fed returns to Ashe: Roger Federer will play in an exhibition at this year's U.S. Open, taking the court alongside Andy Roddick, Andre Agassi and John McEnroe at Arthur Ashe Stadium on Aug. 25. Four days later, he'll be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.   🏆 NBA FINALS SPURS BOUNCE BACK IN THE GARDEN (Al Bello/Getty Images) The Spurs bounced back in Game 3 of the NBA Finals, beating the Knicks 115-111 to snap New York's 13-game winning streak and cut their series lead to 2-1 in front of a rabid Madison Square Garden crowd. Star of the night: Victor Wembanyama finished with 32 points (11-18 FG, 2-4 3PT), 8 rebounds, 6 assists, 3 blocks and 2 steals while getting the best of Karl-Anthony Towns (11 points), who had outplayed him through the first two games. Kelly Iko, Yahoo Sports: From the opening tip, it was clear the 22-year-old intended to take on an entire city, to attempt to overthrow Gotham like the Joker. His force both with the ball in his hands and his command of the square footage around him without it hit the Knicks like a gut punch. And in the fourth quarter, his 10 points screamed louder than any fan could, gradually reducing the amount of electricity in MSG until he was ready to rip the circuit breaker out of the wall. Shoutouts: Stephon Castle (23 pts, 5 reb, 5 ast) was a force all night, providing a consistent source of downhill aggression. Jalen Brunson paced New York with 32 points, but OG Anunoby (28 pts, 9-13 FG) had the best game of any Knick. (Al Bello/Getty Images) Brown not happy with refs: Knicks head coach Mike Brown spent the bulk of his postgame press conference talking about the gap in free throws (32-22 Spurs), particularly in the second half (24-8 Spurs). "I never thought I would be in the NBA Finals and see a team get 24 free-throw attempts in the second half to another team's eight," said Brown, who clearly hoped his words would have an impact on the officiating in Game 4. "The story is going to be there … because I said it." Yes, but: While the Knicks taking 10 fewer free throws overall and making seven fewer — in a game they lost by four — is a story, it's not the story. Not really, anyway. "That ain't cost us the game," said Towns. "We were definitely fouling a lot," added Brunson. Dan Devine, Yahoo Sports: No, the story is that, in the franchise's first NBA Finals home game in 27 years, the other shoe finally dropped. For the first time in 47 days, Brown's club ended the night on the short side of the scoreboard. The second-longest winning streak in NBA playoff history is over. The Knicks have lost; they are no longer invincible.   🏈 SORSBY SAGA A DARK DAY FOR COLLEGE SPORTS Sorsby after a game last fall as Cincinnati's QB. (Dylan Buell/Getty Images) A Lubbock County court has granted Texas Tech QB Brendan Sorsby a temporary injunction against the NCAA, clearing the path for him to play football this fall despite betting on his own team's games. And just like that, college sports may have finally jumped the shark. Catch up quick: Sorsby — a rising fifth-year senior who joined the Red Raiders this offseason as a highly sought-after transfer — was deemed ineligible by the NCAA this spring after it was discovered that he wagered over $90,000 during the last four years at Indiana and Cincinnati, including at least 40 bets on the Hoosiers while he was a member of the team. Sorsby admitted to the transgression and completed an inpatient stay at a treatment facility for a gambling addiction. He also sued the NCAA for banning him, with his lawyers arguing his addiction is a mental health issue that should be supported, not punished. Monday's decision was a victory in that lawsuit, with his entire penalty boiling down to a two-game suspension. As it stands, the star transfer is cleared to start for Texas Tech in Week 3 against Houston. Let me repeat that: A college football player who admitted to betting on his own games — perhaps the single most cardinal sin in all of sports, and one usually met with a lifetime ban — will be allowed to play this fall, and will miss just two games against non-conference opponents. What they're saying: The NCAA said it is "deeply concerned" about the ramifications of the court's decision, and has already filed an appeal, with NCAA president Charlie Baker adding that "there is no better example of why targeted intervention from Congress is necessary." Sorsby's attorney, meanwhile, told Yahoo Sports that "this is a just result." Dan Wolken, Yahoo Sports: If Sorsby has a right to maintain his ability to play after betting on his own team, then sports pretty much cease to exist as a legitimate enterprise. It is hard in 2026 to get anyone to root for the NCAA, which will appeal this ruling out of self-preservation and principle. But somehow, [Texas District Court Judge Ken Curry] has pulled off the impossible. What to watch: Big 12 athletic directors have already had "serious" talks about not playing Texas Tech, and Georgia and Nebraska have instructed their coaches not to schedule them in any sports. We've officially reached the point of no return," Georgia AD Josh Brooks told Yahoo Sports.   ⚽️ RED, WHITE AND BLUE AMERICAN OUTLAWS: ONE NATION, ONE TEAM (Henry Russell/Yahoo Sports) America is co-hosting this year's World Cup, but the American Outlaws are the ones who will be bringing the party to every stadium, festival, bar and brewery they can, from sea to shining sea. Jay Busbee, Yahoo Sports: Elvis Presley lives, and right now he's talking to Wonder Woman and a bald eagle in a gravel parking lot in North Carolina. All around Elvis, hundreds of American soccer fans of all ages, demographics and blood alcohol levels are snacking on hot dogs. Over near one fence, a drum circle is warming up, rat-a-tat-tats filling the sunny afternoon air. Red, white and blue is everywhere, from innumerable Christian Pulisic and Weston McKennie jerseys, to dyed beards and wigs, to a T-shirt that simply reads, "WTF IS A KILOMETER?" Welcome to the land of the American Outlaws. (Jay Busbee/Yahoo Sports) Much like the Avengers, the American Outlaws began with an idea — an idea for a place that American soccer fans, and would-be soccer-fans, could gather and enjoy their love of the beautiful game. A place where they could say the word "soccer" and not be exiled. That idea, born in a basement in Lincoln, Nebraska, now literally spans the entire country, with more than 30,000 Outlaws and 200 chapters dedicated to spreading the word and the love about American soccer. Wherever the USMNT plays this summer, the Outlaws will be there. They'll drum, and chant, and cheer, and celebrate the very best parts of what it means to be American. And they'll be open to everyone, including you. All you have to do to join is start clapping to the beat.   💯 STAT SHEET BIG NUMBERS Texas celebrates after reaching its record-extending 39th College World Series. (Adam Davis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) ⚾️ 23 schools College baseball has experienced a historic level of parity recently, with 23 different schools filling the 24 spots at the College World Series across the past three seasons. North Carolina, the No. 5 seed in this year's tournament, is the only program that has reached the final eight more than once since 2024. Omaha-bound: No. 7 Alabama and Oklahoma punched the last two tickets to Omaha on Monday. They'll be joined in the eight-team field by No. 3 Georgia, No. 5 North Carolina, No. 6 Texas, No. 16 West Virginia, Troy and Ole Miss. 🎾 $1.6 million Maja Chwalińska's historic run from French Open qualifier to women's runner-up earned her a cool $1.6 million — nearly twice her career earnings entering the tournament ($867k). The 24-year-old Pole also climbed all the way from 114th in the world to a career-high No. 21 following two weeks at Roland Garros that changed her life. Consider this: Chwalińska couldn't even pay for her hotel in Paris, which she humbly never expected to need for so long. Polish sports drink company Oshee, which sponsors fellow countrywoman and world No. 3 Iga Świątek, ultimately stepped in and footed the bill. Hamlin waves a No. 18 flag in honor of Kyle Busch. (Brett Farmer/Getty Images) 🏁 63 wins Denny Hamlin won at Michigan International Speedway on Sunday for his second consecutive NASCAR Cup Series victory and 63rd of his career, matching the late Kyle Busch for the ninth-most in history. Top 10: Richard Petty (200 wins), David Pearson (105), Jeff Gordon (93), Bobby Allison (85), Darrell Waltrip (84), Jimmie Johnson (83), Cale Yarborough (83), Dale Earnhardt (76), Busch (63), Hamlin (63). ⛳️ 43 spots "Golf's Longest Day" came and went on Monday, when 43 golfers qualified for next week's U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills. They'll join the 19 players who got through the first three final qualifiers two weeks earlier, as well as the remaining 94 golfers who will comprise the 156-player field. Notable names: Among those who qualified on Monday were eight-time PGA Tour winner Billy Horschel, six-time winner Chris Kirk and 17-year-old Miles Russell, who got the job done with Charlie Woods on his bag. Tiger's son, also 17, is Russell's friend and future teammate, as both rising seniors have committed to play at Florida State.   📺 VIEWING GUIDE WATCHLIST: TUESDAY, JUNE 9 (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) 🏒 Stanley Cup Final, Game 4 Huge game tonight in Sin City (8pm ET, ABC), where the Golden Knights will look to take a 3-1 lead and the Hurricanes will try to even the series before it heads back to Raleigh. Another thriller in store? Two of the first three games have gone to overtime, and all three have been decided by a single goal, making this the first Stanley Cup Final since 2016 — and the fifth in the last 45 years — to have each of the first three games decided by that margin. 🎾 Queen's Club Championships Serena Williams returns to the court today in London (12:30pm, Tennis) for her first professional tennis match since the 2022 U.S. Open. She's playing doubles alongside Canadian teenager (and world No. 9) Victoria Mboko against Erin Routliffe and Nicole Melichar-Martinez, the third-seeded pairing at the season's first grass-court tournament. What she's saying: "It's really about my kids getting to see me play," the 23-time Grand Slam champion said on Sunday when discussing her return. Williams has not definitively said whether she'll play singles again, but she has already committed to next week's Berlin Open, and there's still a chance she could compete at Wimbledon next month. More to watch: ⚾️ MLB: Yankees at Guardians (6:40pm, TBS/Prime) … New York (39-26) visits Cleveland (37-31) in a battle of AL contenders. 🏀 WNBA: Dream at Sky (7pm, ESPN) … Atlanta's Angel Reese, averaging 13.3 points and a league-high 11.7 rebounds, faces her former team for the first time. 🇺🇸 Friendly: Brazil vs. USWNT (8:30pm, TNT) … The Americans will look to rebound after falling 2-1 to the Brazilians on Saturday. Got plans tonight? Gametime is the best place to score last-minute tickets to the events in your city.   ⚽️ USA 94 WORLD CUP TRIVIA The World Cup logo formed by performers during the Opening Ceremony in Chicago. (Todd Rosenberg/Allsport/Getty Images) The first World Cup on U.S. soil since 1994 kicks off in two days. Question: Who won that tournament? Hint: It was not their first victory. Answer at the bottom.   ⚽️ WHO YA GOT? MAKE YOUR PICKS The world's biggest soccer tournament kicks off in two days! Pick your group stage winners now in 2026 Soccer Pick 'Em from Yahoo Sports and FOX One. How to play: Make picks each round, earn points for correct predictions and climb the leaderboard. You can play solo against the field, create a private group with friends to compete for bragging rights, or join a public group to play with other fans. Beat the expert: Think you can pick better than Alexi Lalas? Go head-to-head with the former USMNT player by joining his group (with a previous entry or a new one), and see how your predictions stack up.   🙏 YOUR TURN GOT 2 MINUTES? (Giphy) One quick favor before you go: If Yahoo Sports AM is part of your morning routine, we'd love to learn a little more about you. This short survey takes less than two minutes, and your feedback will help shape the future of the newsletter. Thank you!   Trivia answer: Brazil (over Italy in the Final)

NBA Finals The San Antonio Spurs beat the New York Knicks 115-111 at Madison Square Garden on Monday, trimming New York's lead in the NBA Finals to 2-1. The game also drew national attention as President Donald Trump became the first sitting US president to attend an NBA Finals game, prompting enhanced security and boos from some attendees when he appeared on the Jumbotron. Read more. WATCH: Trump reacts to being booed at Madison Square Garden

Voters in four states head to the polls today to choose the candidates who will compete in November's midterm elections. Here's a closer look at some of the key races: Maine: Among the most closely watched contests is Maine's Senate race, where incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins is seeking another term. Democrat Graham Platner is expected to win his party's nomination despite growing scrutiny over allegations about his past treatment of women and a recent extramarital sexting scandal. WATCH: Women in Maine have mixed feelings about Graham Platner Nevada: The Silver State is also drawing national attention as Democrats look to reclaim the governor's office. LIVE RESULTS: Track results across Maine, Nevada, South Carolina and North Dakota. First polls close at 7 p.m. ET.

6.1 magnitude earthquake near Cuba shakes buildings in Havana and Florida HAVANA (AP) — A 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck near western Cuba on Monday afternoon, shaking buildings in Havana and Florida as far north as Orlando. No injuries or damage was reported. https://apnews.com/article/cuba-earthquake-tremor-florida-a19cd2298c241bb21412824f366a893f? 32,000 people displaced by the Philippine earthquake that killed at least 37 GENERAL SANTOS, Philippines (AP) — Rescuers searched ruined buildings in the southern Philippines on Tuesday to ensure no one was still trapped a day after one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the country in a half-century killed at least 37 people and displaced more than 32,000. https://apnews.com/article/philippines-earthquake-2907e17ea68fca76cb4c6fde3e15f139?

A flesh-eating cattle parasite spreads beyond Texas as new screwworm cases are found Three more cases of the New World screwworm have been confirmed, including one outside the main cluster in Texas, demonstrating the difficulty of stopping a resurgent pest that could devastate the nation’s cattle industry, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Monday. https://apnews.com/article/screwworm-flesh-eating-parasite-cattle-texas-a7459200cef00d658d877755ad761f41?

Federal judge strikes down Trump’s $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas U.S. District Court Judge Leo Sorokin in Boston sided with 20 states, saying the executive branch exceeded its authority. Read more. What to know: H-1B visas are meant for high-skilled jobs that are difficult to find American workers to fill. The administration announced the much higher fee in September as a way of preventing foreign workers from taking American jobs. The announcement set off a wave of panic among confused employers, students and workers in the United States and abroad and led to several lawsuits. In this case, states argued that using the H-1B program for much-needed doctors and teachers was already difficult before the higher fee. The ruling contradicts an earlier federal court decision that upheld the increased fee. There's still another federal case in San Francisco, setting up the possibility for appellate court clashes. RELATED COVERAGE ➤ Somali referee won’t officiate in World Cup after being denied entry into US Trump administration will offer expedited visa interviews at select embassies for $750 Attorneys urge release of mosque leader, saying he’s been denied diabetes care in ICE custody ICE facility in Louisiana reports its second detainee death in less than 2 months A watchdog report flags security risks in the IRS-ICE taxpayer data-sharing deal What to know about the growing opposition to Trump family-linked resort in Albania Republican senators warn surveillance program may lapse after Trump intel pick backlash Pentagon labels tech giant Alibaba and electric car maker BYD as aiding Chinese military Vance adds a chicken coop to the vice president’s residence Trump booed by the crowd prior to Game 3 of the NBA Finals

June 9, 2026 By Sam Sifton Good morning. The Spurs slipped past the Knicks last night, 115-111, ending a 13-game winning streak that lasted more than a month. President Trump and Zohran Mamdani were there. There’s more news below. I’m going to start today, though, with some great American sentences. Word choices Here’s a great sentence now: “The United States was written into being 250 years ago.” My colleagues wrote it to introduce a project we’re unveiling today. It’s about six sentences that have shaped the American story over the past two and a half centuries. I love theirs because the words “written into being” say so much about the birth of our nation — conjured not out of conquest or lineage, but out of shared principles and philosophies that led to our independence from the British crown. We write laws, literature, songs and speeches to tell us who we are. And when we write them well — with precision and rhythm that match our ambition, our bravado, our anger, joy, grievances or dreams alike — we can imagine a kind of American exceptionalism that derives not from power or politics, but from language itself. Here’s the first of the six. It’s the most famous sentence of the Declaration of Independence, written quickly and collectively in Philadelphia in 1776: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Our A.O. Scott wrote about that one. As he notes, many pages have been written about these 35 words, about the ideology that girds them, about the history that led to them, about where in classical and early modern thought they emerged. That makes them no less remarkable for their sweep, and for their radicalism, he says. We are equal. We have rights. Those rights define our humanity. National Archives Of course it’s a slippery bit of poetry, too, both a sacred text and a promise that, for many, has yet to be achieved. He writes: Even the simplest gloss — the near-heretical attempt to put the language of the Declaration “in other words” — hints at the complexities rippling through the crystalline clarity of the prose. Every word is a fighting word, begging to be contested. What exactly did they mean by “equal”? By “Creator”? By “Liberty”? By “We”? Yesterday, I called Tony (A.O.’s been Tony to me since … college) to ask him about what it was like to write about these words we’ve all seen so many times. “There’s real gravity and authority to them,” he told me. “We call it a ‘founding document’ and ascribe a lot of complexity and baggage to it. But the most accurate description of what kind of writing it is? It’s a memo.” And yet, what a memo. “It goes so far beyond anything that they could have imagined,” Tony said. “That’s fascinating to me. Words are words. Sentences are sentences. But this writing is not static. It has the power to endure, even to change over time. And it gave me a little chill to realize that.” Please explore the whole package here, starting with Tony. Together the sentences provide an American narrative, a way of reading our history that helps us to understand our present — and to think about our future. American Sentences All this talk of American sentences reminded me of the poet Allen Ginsberg, who wanted to create an American version of haiku, the Japanese poetic form that calls for stanzas of five syllables, then seven syllables, then five once more. Ginsberg proposed the American Sentence instead, a 17-syllable single-line poem, no other rules. He put a lot of them into his 1994 collection, “Cosmopolitan Greetings.” Some may say something about the American story, too: Put on my tie in a taxi, short of breath, rushing to meditate. Get used to your body, forget you were born, suddenly you got to get out! To see Void vast infinite look out the window into the blue sky. THE LATEST NEWS War in the Middle East In Tehran. Arash Khamooshi/Polaris for The New York Times Iran and Israel paused fighting after a day of tit-for-tat strikes. Trump called Benjamin Netanyahu and asked him to stop, officials told The Times. The brief fight shows that Israel is in a bind, our Jerusalem bureau chief writes — apparently beholden to Trump, and up against an Iran unafraid to restart the war. A U.S. Army helicopter gunship went down near the Strait of Hormuz. It had two crew members, who were rescued. The framework for a peace deal is clear but negotiators are struggling to present it in a way that lets both sides claim victory. Elections The second runoff spot in the Los Angeles mayor’s race went to a progressive councilwoman, Nithya Raman. She beat a conservative reality star, Spencer Pratt. Trump baselessly denounced that result — maintaining his habit of casting doubt on election outcomes he doesn’t like. Today is Primary Day in several states including Maine, Nevada and South Carolina. In Maine, Graham Platner is seeking the Democratic Senate nomination. Politics Todd Blanche Demetrius Freeman for The New York Times Trump formally nominated Todd Blanche as attorney general, setting up a confirmation fight. A federal judge struck down a Trump administration policy to impose a $100,000 fee on companies seeking H-1B visas for skilled foreign workers. A push by Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, to investigate a supposed cabal against Trump unleashed a crisis and undercut prosecutors’ credibility with judges. N.B.A. Finals In New York last night. Vincent Alban; Angelina Katsanis for The New York Times; Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times The Spurs won with help from Victor Wembanyama, who scored 32 points. The Knicks lead the series 2-1. Trump watched from a luxury box. The crowd booed when he appeared on the video board. Courtside seats at a Knicks game are always full of celebrities. See who was there. Other Big Stories The U.S.D.A. will speed up efforts to fight screwworm, a parasitic fly recently found in Texas livestock. The United States declared it eradicated in the 1960s. Banks hope to woo the superrich with exclusive access to SpaceX leadership before the company’s I.P.O. Health risks from alcohol start at one drink a day, a new government study found. OPINIONS Historic outbreaks with suspected and confirmed cases since 1995. Current outbreak using only confirmed cases. By Taylor Maggiacomo The current ebola outbreak could become the worst ever. It can still be contained, Jeremy Konyndyk writes, “but only if the world finds the will to do it.” About a quarter of wild-caught seafood comes from boats that scrape the bottom of the ocean with giant weighted nets. The technique kills thousands of marine species. There are better ways to fish, Paul Greenberg writes. Human made. Human played. 75% off. Subscribe to New York Times Games for 75% off your first year. Our best offer is only available for a limited time. Relax and recharge with our full portfolio of games, including Wordle, Spelling Bee, Connections, the Crossword and more — all mindfully made by humans. MORNING READS In Mexico. Luis Antonio Rojas for The New York Times Artisanal or exploitative? Viral videos claim Adidas exploited Indigenous women to sew World Cup jerseys. The women say they like the work. Screen theory: Modern smartphones hit shelves in 2007. Fertility rates began falling that year. Two studies say there’s a connection. Your pick: The most clicked link in The Morning yesterday was a spaghetti carbonara recipe. Windsurfer: Hoyle Schweitzer helped create a sailboard that allowed people to glide across lakes and oceans. It was a garage experiment that grew into a global sport. He died at 93. An excerpt from the 2021 documentary “Broken Molds,” about the invention of the windsurfer. TODAY’S NUMBER 31 — That is how many religious affiliations the Defense Department now allows service members to choose from for their personnel records, down from more than 200. Among others, the list no longer includes atheist, pagan, Unitarian Universalist or Wiccan. SPORTS College football: A Texas state court granted a temporary injunction that will let the Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby play this fall, despite his admission that he made at least 40 bets on Indiana football when he was on the Hoosiers’ 2022 roster. World Cup: The former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel said no to hosting games in this year’s tournament. He doesn’t regret it. RECIPE OF THE DAY Christopher Testani for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews. I suppose you could make this recipe for easy chicken tacos easier by using a rotisserie chicken instead of cooking boneless, skinless thighs. But you’d miss out on the silky gravy, which soaks into tortillas beautifully, and the dry white meat would bum you out. Serve with diced raw onion, cilantro, wedges of lime and a hot sauce with backbone — Crystal, say. I don’t recommend Tabasco. A HOLLYWOOD ICON Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum, for The New York Times Popular movies bond us to one another, no matter what’s happening in the world, writes Wesley Morris in a sprawling, lovely profile of Steven Spielberg. And Spielberg’s films have been a top-shelf glue. Wesley talked to the director about fear, catharsis and being human. “I can’t express enough how therapeutic and healthy it is for me to keep doing this job over and over and over again,” Spielberg said about making movies. “I work so much out through this process. So much out. I get to bleed off some of the darkness instead of letting it fester inside me. You get to let it fester inside you.” More on culture The hard-boiled, staccato and super-dark crime writer James Ellroy has a new novel out, “Red Sheet,” and our Book Review got the novelist William T. Vollmann to review it. He’s also fairly dark. “Whenever I start another Ellroy novel,” he writes, “I become a fly, buzzing ghoulishly over multiply stabbed corpses and taking refreshment from some backdoor schemer’s cask-strength whiskey bottle.” “Backrooms” and “Obsession,” two low-budget horror films that have both soared past $100 million at the box office, offer a lot to unpack about the YouTube-to-cinema pipeline and the anxieties of a younger generation. The culture critics Alissa Wilkinson and Jason Zinoman discuss. They’re so smart. Late night hosts roasted Trump for walking out on “Meet the Press.” THE MORNING RECOMMENDS Nicolas Cage in “Spider-Noir.” Prime Watch “Spider-Noir” on Amazon Prime. Our critic calls the show “a superhero story dressed up in classic-Hollywood drag: gangster violence, smoky musical numbers, screwball patter, mad-doctor horror.” Fun. 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taher [02891] and tsadak [06663] used in parallelism in Job. A parallelism is a literary structure used in Hebrew. In Job 4:17 tsadak and taher are used in a parallel structure. Job 4:17 Shall mortal man be more just <06663> than God? shall a man be more pure <02891> than his maker? In this passage "be more just" and "be more pure" are used together. This use indicates that "just" [06663] and "pure" [02891] can have the same meaning. The Hebrew word for justify [06663] is used in parallel with another word in Job and Psalms. That word is זכה zakah [02135]. This indicates that taher and zakah can have the same meaning:‎ Job 15:14 What [is] man, that he should be clean <02135>? and [he which is] born of a woman, that he should be righteous <06663>? Job 25:4 How then can man be justified <06663> with God? or how can he be clean <02135> [that is] born of a woman? Ps 51:4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done [this] evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified <06663> when thou speakest, [and] be clear <02135> when thou judgest. ‎

🎆 1 for the road: D.C.'s 250 anxiety Map: Danielle Alberti/Axios America's 250th birthday celebrations are being billed as can't-miss events that will bring the whole country together — but many D.C. residents are straight up dreading them, Axios D.C.'s Mimi Montgomery writes. Why it matters: Washingtonians have to live among everything that accompanies a lineup of this magnitude: Road closures, intense security, huge crowds and off-limits areas. 🏎️ Mapped above: Downtown D.C. is full of events this summer, including celebrations for America's 250th on top of a World Cup watch zone and more. The IndyCar Freedom 250 Grand Prix will be the final big tourist draw, for a 1.7-mile race through the National Mall on Aug. 22–23. Keep reading.

🌴 California's "red mirage" feeds MAGA frenzy Illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios. Stock: Getty Images Axios' Zachary Basu writes from L.A.: California's plodding, weekslong tally of mail-in ballots has become Exhibit A in President Trump's campaign to delegitimize the November midterms. Why it matters: Glacial vote-counting in the nation's most populous state has produced a familiar, flammable ritual: Late mail piles up, officials plead for patience, and early Republican leads slowly vanish. 🔎 Zoom in: Spencer Pratt, the reality TV star running a viral campaign for L.A. mayor, has become MAGA's latest election martyr after five days of mail-ballot counting erased his grip on second place — and his spot in November's runoff. City Councilmember Nithya Raman, who was 8 points behind Pratt in early returns on election night, has dominated the late mail vote and clinched the second runoff spot against Mayor Karen Bass. Via Truth Social Between the lines: Pratt's campaign primed the right to believe L.A. was ready for a political earthquake. In reality, the baseline math never changed: Registered Democrats outnumber Republicans nearly 3-to-1 in L.A. County, and Trump's toxic national brand overwhelmed Pratt's effort to run as a local insurgent. But to MAGA audiences sold on Pratt's online momentum and strong election-night position, Raman's late surge looked and felt like a mathematical impossibility. 👀 What we're watching: The local blowup over the L.A. mayor's race is serving as a tactical dry run for a much larger federal offensive against California and other blue states' election infrastructure. Keep reading.

Trump pre-blames Europe for World Cup Ebola Photo Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios. Photos: Win McNamee/Getty Images The Trump administration, fearing international travel could turn the World Cup into an Ebola superspreader, is pressuring Europe to dramatically step up infection prevention, sources tell Axios' Alex Isenstadt. Top Trump aides are frustrated with Europe's limited travel restrictions and want it to abandon the World Health Organization's Ebola playbook in favor of Washington's tighter rules, a senior official said. The implied message: Any Ebola outbreak in the U.S. would be Europe's fault. The World Cup kicks off Thursday with a record 48 teams and 104 matches in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. The State Department estimates the tournament will draw 5 million to 7 million international visitors to the U.S. — including players, staff and fans from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the outbreak is centered. 🔬 Zoom in: The State Department last week sent European countries an extraordinary request calling for travel restrictions from Central Africa, where the outbreak began. Keep reading.

Confessions of an AI lab rat Illustration: Lindsey Bailey/Axios Axios CEO Jim VandeHei previewed his lab-rat learnings in his weekly newsletter for CEOs, Axios C-Suite, and wrote this broader version for Axios AM: I've spent the past year using AI obsessively — inputting copious amounts of personal and business data, turning myself into a lab rat for Axios and our readers. Why it matters: This experiment has shown me in unmistakable, hands-on ways the superhuman possibilities — and real-world limitations — hitting and awaiting us. In short: AI is way better, more accurate and mind-expanding than most think. (Sorry, it's true.) But it's colliding with hard human realities, making it confusing, clunky and chaotic for lots of people in its current form. How I did it: Over the past year, Axios aggressively tested AI (mainly OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude Code) across every layer of every department. We provided access and instruction to every employee. Most of my leadership team operates with chief-of-staff agents, and we're knee-deep in agent-to-agent prep. I personally use ChatGPT or Claude for one to two hours daily, usually in the early mornings, and control an AI personal operating system via my phone. That's connected to an always-on computer that runs several agents, including one that scans daily for CEO-relevant data and trends. I've dumped every medical record and blood test into it, and detailed my diet, workouts and supplements. It knows more about my health than my wife does! So here are my takeaways: It's way better than most think. I've spent the year with my head buried in this, while talking to the smartest people in tech, politics and business. AI is smarter than 95% of the people on 95% of topics, 95% of the time. Even for someone using it obsessively with real discipline, I'm still discovering it's way better than I thought possible. Its ability to think creatively and research deeply is extraordinary — if and only if you know how to use it. It takes real work. You can't wing it. You need to work at it daily, so AI learns you — and you learn AI. That's when the magic happens. You have to feed it copious amounts of information and persistently tell it what works and what sucks. This feedback loop creates a new form of super-knowledge about you — and super-skills for you. Most people get unimpressive results and move on, assuming it's overhyped. Don't. It's the smartest doctor I've met. I fed AI every medical record I have — MRIs, blood work, heart rate — and told it to be clinical and brutally honest. I've run most solutions past my doctor, and almost every time, he agrees. I still validate with physicians. But if I had to pick someone to diagnose something, I would turn to AI over human docs for anything complicated. Short-term job losses are overhyped. A year ago, I assumed AI's story would be subtraction: automate ruthlessly, cut costs, shrink headcount. That's real. We've done it at Axios. But over the last three months, my view shifted. The bigger opportunity isn't efficiency. It's new business lines that were economically impossible before AI. We're exploring three new revenue-generating projects that simply weren't possible without AI. I now believe many specific jobs here will change, but that we'll end up hiring more people over time than I would've thought a year ago. Business gains are overhyped, too — for now. As good as it is, AI hits internal walls when it comes to human use, security, connections to other systems and decisions about what data it can access inside companies. In most cases, it's simply not ready for deployment at scale. This problem is getting worse because agent-to-agent work is a mess. If AI transforms our business — and I think it will — agents need to work flawlessly with other agents. This is the unfolding frontier. My exec team has chief-of-staff agents, but we hit constant walls in determining what they can know, share and act on once the agents collaborate. This must be fixed before companies experience what I have at an individual level. A new class of super-worker is born. Here's the best news: We're spotting rank-and-file workers daily whose brains are wired for AI. It's been easier than expected to spot them, then train them to be AI accelerators on their team or across the company. These people are not technologists. You don't need to be an AI savant or lab rat. But every person reading this should figure out ASAP how AI can augment their work. If your company does not have AI teaching, demand it. It's affected my mind, mood and performance. I'm not a coder and rarely use AI for more than that hour or two per day, but these stories about people in Silicon Valley getting swept up in a manic AI fever — AI-pilled! — hit home for me. On the good side, I've jumped out of bed at 3 a.m. more than I care to admit, jazzed to test or explore a new idea. At 55, I've written and accomplished a lot more than any other time in my life. But you must train it to challenge and expand your thinking — not replace it. On the flip side, I find myself waking up after shorter bursts of sleep with more anxiety. Maybe it's coincidence, not causation. But I doubt it. The bottom line: We're living history. For $20 a month, any of us can experiment with exceptionally advanced AI models. Be clear-eyed about the good, bad and ugly. Most importantly, be curious. Use it daily. Read about it regularly. Figure out what parts of you can be vastly improved with AI — and then do it. Screenshot: Axios 📱 Watch a video of Mike quizzing Jim about his lab rat learnings (34 mins. ... Executive producer: Jimmy Shelton). ... Share this story. Tell us what you think: finishline@axios.com.

US says it has begun strikes against Iran following crash of Army Apache helicopter off Oman coast DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. military said Tuesday it has begun strikes against Iran following the crash of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter off the coast of Oman that U.S. President Donald Trump blamed on the Islamic Republic. https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-ceasefire-helicopter-hezbollah-israel-9-june-2026-50d7a8ecbb2cf33836af152679adb40e? Netanyahu and Trump are at odds over the war they started together President Donald Trump had publicly warned Israel not to strike Beirut in its war with Iran-backed Hezbollah militants. When it did, on Sunday, Israel traded strikes with Iran, with which Trump has been engaged in weeks of high-stakes negotiations. Read more. Why this matters: The latest strikes made it clear that Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu want different things. While the fighting has since died down, the differences between the two leaders are likely to persist. That’s because Trump, whose party faces elections later this year, wants to wind down an unpopular war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz to ease gas prices. Netanyahu, who also faces elections this year, is under pressure to stop Hezbollah's attacks and prove that he is winning the war with Iran and its allies. RELATED COVERAGE ➤ Israel and Iran exchange strikes after Beirut attack, in photos WATCH: Trump says pilots are fine after US helicopter crashes near Strait of Hormuz A very online Israeli army spokesman is the face of war for millions of Arabs War in the Middle East is flaring again. Here’s how each side sees the stakes After morning of sirens, Israelis fall back into well-worn war routines Iran war President Trump said Monday that the US will declare "total victory" over Iran within the next two weeks. Trump also said the signing of a "powerful deal" with the country could be just days away, the latest in a string of similar promises that an agreement was just around the corner. Read more. ANALYSIS: Here's how many times Trump claimed an Iran deal was close

THIS DAY IN HISTORY June 9 1973 Secretariat wins Triple Crown in breathtaking style With a victory at the Belmont Stakes, Secretariat becomes the first horse since Citation in 1948 to win America’s coveted Triple Crown: the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes. read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT 19th Century 1893 22 die in collapse of Ford’s Theatre, site of Lincoln assassination 1856 Handcart pioneers depart for Salt Lake City Arts & Entertainment 1956 Best-selling crime novelist Patricia Cornwell is born Cold War 1954 “Have you no sense of decency?” Sen. Joseph McCarthy is asked in hearing Vietnam War 1964 CIA report challenges “domino theory” World War I 1915 William Jennings Bryan resigns as U.S. secretary of state

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How are Americans doing financially? In 2025, nearly a third of US adults reported being worse off than in 2024, with 91% stating that price increases were their main financial concern. https://usafacts.org/articles/how-are-americans-doing-financially/? How much debt does the US have? The US has $39 trillion in debt as of April 2026. The federal government borrows money when its spending and investments cannot be funded by federal revenue alone; this debt enables the government to pay for programs and services when funds aren’t immediately available. https://usafacts.org/answers/how-much-debt-does-the-us-have/country/united-states/? One last fact The US inflation rate, a measure that considers costs for everything from healthcare to gas to food, was 3.8% as of April 2026. Transportation prices rose by 7.1% from April 2025, housing costs rose 3.6%, and food/beverage costs rose 3.1%.

A School Bus Killed a 5-Year-Old. The Crash Is Among Dozens Missing From the Bus Company’s Federal Safety Record. On the day 5-year-old Lens Joseph was killed by a Boston Public Schools bus last year, the driver had already struck a postal truck, ignored a stop sign and missed several stops, prosecutors said. When he got to Lens’ house, he dropped him off on the wrong side of the street and then ran over the kindergartner as he crossed in front of the bus. https://www.propublica.org/article/boston-school-bus-crash-record-lens-joseph-transdev? What ProPublica Found in the Genetic Code of America’s Measles Outbreaks American children lined up for the world’s first measles shots in the early 1960s, but it took nearly 40 years of shoring up immunization programs before the infamous contagion had been so thoroughly controlled that a panel of experts declared in 2000 that the United States had eliminated measles within its borders. https://projects.propublica.org/measles-outbreak-analysis-utah-texas/ Founder of Kentucky Drug Rehab Center Indicted on Fraud and Money Laundering Charges Timmy G. Robinson Jr., founder and owner of what was once Kentucky’s largest drug addiction treatment company, was criminally indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on charges of wire fraud and money laundering. https://www.propublica.org/article/tim-robinson-indicted-addiction-recovery-care? North Carolina Democrats Propose Changes to Block GOP Power Transfers and Secrecy Democratic lawmakers in North Carolina introduced a trio of constitutional amendments this week aimed at protecting traditional powers of the state’s governor and reforming oversight of its court system. https://www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-legislation-governor-power? These Republican Lawmakers Challenged Abortion Bans. Then They Faced Backlash. If Eric Murphy loses his primary election on June 9, he believes he already knows one reason why. https://www.propublica.org/article/republicans-face-backlash-after-challenging-abortion-bans? In This Church, Child Sexual Abuse Has Gone Unchecked for So Long That It Spans Generations They were pillars of their church, congregants in a little-known denomination that sets itself apart from the world and teaches that even the most unconscionable acts can be wiped away — not just forgiven, but forgotten and never spoken of again. https://www.propublica.org/article/old-apostolic-lutheran-church-generational-sexual-abuse? An Indian Billionaire Was Targeted by Trump. Then He Poured Money Into a Startup Secretly Backed by Donald Trump Jr. In late November in Jamnagar, India, the scions of two of the most powerful families in the world stood face-to-face. On one side was 30-year-old Anant Ambani, son of one the richest men in Asia. On the other was Donald Trump Jr. For months, the Trump administration had been on the offensive against the sprawling Ambani energy empire, placing it at the center of an escalating tariff campaign against India. But after Trump Jr. touched down, the two men toured the Ambanis’ private zoo, and at night they performed a Gujarati folk dance, grinning as they moved together to the music. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-ambani-reliance-industries-america-first-refining-texas? Trump Administration Killed Criminal Investigation of GOP Senator’s Coal Companies Trump administration officials earlier this year killed a federal criminal investigation into the coal empire owned by Sen. Jim Justice, a Republican from West Virginia and a close ally of the president’s. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-jim-justice-doj-southern-coal-investigation-west-virginia? He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him. A white Ford pickup truck broke through a thick curtain of fog one morning in February, winding its way down a muddy farm road in California’s Central Valley. From it emerged a 64-year-old dairyman, burly and tan, who left the engine running as he lumbered toward me with open arms. https://www.propublica.org/article/mark-mcafee-raw-milk-recalls-maha? A U.S. Senator Pushed to Cut Firefighting Aircraft Inspections the Same Month His Former Company Failed One A little over a year ago, Sen. Tim Sheehy floated an audacious proposal to reshape the way the federal government fights wildfires. It called for expanding the use of private planes and helicopters to quickly attack blazes while also eliminating the U.S. Forest Service’s rigorous airworthiness inspections for those aircraft. https://www.propublica.org/article/tim-sheehy-bridger-aerospace-forest-service-inspection?

St. Pete Council OKs study to review costs, benefits of owning its own utilities Responding to the frustrations expressed by local residents, the St. Petersburg City Council has taken a major step towards potentially jettisoning its longtime relationship with Duke Energy Florida and creating its own city-run electric utility. https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/06/05/st-pete-council-oks-study-to-review-costs-benefits-of-owning-its-own-utilities/? Black midwives are suing Southern states, claiming regulations make it harder to help patients Black midwives in the South, a region rife with racial disparities in maternal health access and maternal mortality, are leading lawsuits over state regulations that they say limit their ability to provide care. https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/06/08/repub/black-midwives-are-suing-southern-states-claiming-regulations-make-it-harder-to-help-patients/? Ashley Moody backed proposal to bar ‘anti-weaponization’ payments to J6 rioters who assaulted police Florida’s junior U.S. senator, Ashley Moody has been a consistent supporter of the Trump administration since she was appointed to her seat by Gov. Ron DeSantis in January 2025. https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/06/08/ashley-moody-backed-proposal-to-bar-anti-weaponization-payments-to-j6-rioters-who-assaulted-police/? Florida remains in bottom half of child wellbeing in annual databook Florida’s overall state of child wellbeing did not improve in this year’s Kids Count Data Profile, although some segments including graduation rates\ and teen birth did see gains. https://floridaphoenix.com/briefs/florida-remains-in-bottom-half-of-child-wellbeing-in-annual-databook/?