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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Exclusive: Seventh-day Adventist Church failed to act on child sexual abuse claims – Channel 4 News Another example of same sex pedophilia--man on boy, literally

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

Trump’s Favorite Paper Turns on Him Over ‘Sleaze’ Scandal The first family has been accused of “sloshing around in the muck”. Donald Trump’s favorite newspaper just shredded the president and the first family for cutting sleazy deals off the back of his return to office. “It was bad when the Bidens did it, and it’s just as bad when the Trumps do it,” The New York Post’s editorial board wrote in a scathing Monday takedown of the grift that has defined the second Trump presidency. The newspaper’s editorial dives into a Sunday report from The New York Times that Trump’s sons, Eric and Donald Jr., along with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s sons, Kyle and Brandon, are fixing to profit from a billion-dollar mining deal struck between the U.S. and Kazakhstan. “It stinks to high heaven,” the Post wrote. “If a president’s family making bank from obscure resource companies in the former Soviet Union sounds familiar, maybe that’s because Hunter Biden’s lucrative connection to Burisma—a Ukrainian gas company—was a major scandal in the 2020 election and beyond.” Republicans, and the Trump family in particular, spent years trying to paint Joe Biden as the head of an organized crime group, with his son Hunter as the “bagman” who supposedly cashed in on the family name abroad and kicked a share upstairs to his father. Investigations by GOP lawmakers in the House failed to find any evidence that the elder Biden profited from his son’s foreign business dealings. Hunter Biden eventually pleaded guilty to tax violations and was convicted on separate gun charges, while the allegations of foreign influence peddling foundered and never made it to court. Joe Biden pardoned Hunter in December 2024, saying he was worried the incoming Trump administration would try to come after the family again. Republicans have never admitted defeat and have continued to villainize the Bidens as crooks who escaped their day of reckoning. The Post’s Monday editorial laid out the hypocrisy in black-and-white. “The Lutnick and Trump boys have been sloshing around in the muck since their dads came to power 18 months ago,” the newspaper wrote. “They’ve profited handsomely from cryptocurrency deals while the government their fathers control were setting crypto policy.” Still, the paper has short-sold the irony. The Trump family’s grift began even before the president retook the White House last January, when an entity linked to the United Arab Emirates purchased a 49 percent stake in World Liberty Financial, Eric and Donald Trump Jr.’s crypto-venture, which it used to route $187 million to Trump-family interests and a further $31 million to entities linked to the president’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff. That deal set a template that has since allowed the first family to rake in an estimated $2.3 billion from digital assets alone, according to a Reuters analysis this month. But the money-making bonanza has never been confined to crypto, with the Trumps also cutting fresh real estate deals all over the globe—including in the former Soviet Union. Beyond the new Kazakhstan deal, Eric Trump unveiled plans this spring for Trump Tower Tbilisi, a 70-story skyscraper that promises to be the tallest building in the capital of the former Soviet Republic of Georgia in Eastern Europe. The Daily Beast previously reported that one of the Georgian partners on the project has close ties to the country’s ruling oligarch, pro-Putin billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, who is under U.S. sanctions for trying to drag Georgia closer to Moscow. The Trump Organization’s U.S. partner in the deal has its own history of shady links to Russia and the Soviet criminal underworld. The Post rounded off its editorial by warning that Democrats are now pushing hard to probe the Trump family’s business dealings. “If they take the House in the midterms, these hearings are surely coming,” the paper wrote. “It would behoove the Trump administration, and the nation as a whole, if the president gets ahead of the growing scandal, acts transparently and cleans up the whole mess before it swamps his final two years in office—and defines his legacy,” it added. The Daily Beast has contacted the White House for comment on this story. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-favorite-paper-the-new-york-post-tears-into-his-sons-eric-and-donald-jr-over-sleaze-scandal/?

Self-exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui gets 30 years in US prison for fraud conviction NEW YORK (AP) — A self-exiled billionaire Chinese business tycoon once believed to be among China’s wealthiest men was sentenced Monday to 30 years in a U.S. prison for a massive financial fraud that a federal judge said cost over 1,000 people worldwide hundreds of millions of dollars. https://apnews.com/article/guo-wengui-chinese-businessman-fraud-3deb06c17c5640a5d63f0e2c72286ac8? ps:Well he should be getting pardoned!!!!!

Iran says this. The US says that. A guide to what they appear to disagree about now The 60-day clock is ticking on further talks between the United States and Iran on the interim deal, but it’s not even clear when negotiators will meet again. Read more. What to know: Other issues include control over the Strait of Hormuz. Iran says shippers must use its designated routes and coordinate with its authorities. It has objected to a new route overseen by the U.S. that runs along Oman. That sparked the fighting over the weekend. RELATED COVERAGE ➤ The Strait of Hormuz’s future is unsettled in wake of latest strikes Israeli troops face resistance from residents as they push into a town in Syria

June 30, 2026 By Sam Sifton Good morning. For a lot of the country today, it’s going to be a scorcher. In deep-red Texas, Democrats have a chance to win a Senate seat this fall, according to a new Times/Siena poll. And yesterday President Trump saw some mixed rulings at the Supreme Court. Let’s start with those. The Supreme Court. Tierney L. Cross for The New York Times Wins and losses The Supreme Court significantly expanded presidential power yesterday, holding that Trump can fire most independent government regulators. That’s a big deal. Critics say a president who can fire regulators at will is a president less constrained by constitutional checks and balances. He or she can issue loyalty tests. The court framed only one exception: governors of the Federal Reserve. The decisions came in two separate, but related, cases. The first concerned Trump’s efforts to fire Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission, because her policy views are, in his mind, inconsistent with the priorities of his administration. (As in, she’s a Democrat.) The 6-to-3 decision in that case determined that the president could indeed fire her at will. That’s a substantial shift in political power, one that gives the president more direct control over independent government agencies. The ruling has implications for more than two dozen of those agencies — including, but not limited to, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Postal Service. As my colleagues note, the president has already changed the leadership of at least 13 agencies. The New York Times In a dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that the ruling “promises to unleash only chaos.” At the same time, the Slaughter decision carved out the “unique role” of the Federal Reserve, with justices ruling that officials at the long-independent central bank could be fired only for cause. The second case, involving Trump’s efforts to do just that to Lisa Cook, a governor of the Fed, underscored the carve-out. In a 5-to-4 ruling — with two conservative justices, John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh, joining the three liberals — the court said that Cook could not be fired without the chance to rebut unproven allegations of mortgage fraud leveled by the Trump administration against her. Only a president can remove a governor from the Fed for cause, the justices wrote. “But that does not mean that he may make that decision for any reason, or no reason,” they added. (Trump immediately renewed his vow to fire her anyway.) Request denied E. Jean Carroll Sarah Blesener for The New York Times The Supreme Court also ruled yesterday on a request by Trump to re-examine a $5 million civil judgment against him after a jury found in 2023 that he had sexually abused and defamed the writer E. Jean Carroll. The justices declined to take up the case. That could end his legal efforts to fight back against the jury verdict finding that he assaulted Carroll in the mid-1990s in a department store dressing room. Trump condemned the decision on social media. “I will continue the fight against this Weaponization and Lawfare Case against me, including the ridiculous claim of Defamation, with all of my power and strength,” he wrote. From the mailbag Trump was no less pugnacious in responding to another Supreme Court ruling yesterday. (We’re coming to the end of the court’s term, and the decisions are coming in hot.) This one upheld the grace period that Mississippi has for late-arriving mail-in ballots. The ruling means that Mississippi can count ballots that come in up to five business days after Election Day, so long as they’re postmarked by that day. And it leaves in place laws similar to Mississippi’s in 18 other states and territories, including Nevada and California. On social media, Trump excoriated the decision and called for passage of his voter identification law: “In light of the tremendous loss in the Supreme Court today concerning Voter’s Rights, and the fact that ‘people’s’ votes are allowed to be counted LONG AFTER an Election is over, it is more important than ever to pass THE SAVE AMERICA ACT.” More on the Supreme Court The court’s last decisions of the term are expected today. A few big cases remain, including on birthright citizenship and transgender athletes. In its next term, starting in the fall, the court will consider two Arizona laws that require proof of citizenship when registering to vote. THE LATEST NEWS Midterm Elections Democrats have a serious chance to win a Senate seat in Texas for the first time in a generation: James Talarico is tied with Ken Paxton, a New York Times/Siena poll finds. (We’ve made this story free for you to read, along with some others in this newsletter.) It’s Primary Day in Colorado. The biggest race is to be the Democratic candidate for governor. Senator Michael Bennet is facing off with the state’s attorney general, Phil Weiser. Gen-Z candidates — including a 29-year-old running for a House seat in Colorado — are stepping up to challenge the Democratic establishment. Republicans have tried to focus on affordability, but Trump keeps veering off script. In the video below, Tyler Pager, a White House correspondent, explains how the president is giving his own party midterm anxiety. Click to watch. The New York Times Around the World Delegations from the United States and Iran will be in Qatar today, but it’s unclear if they will hold direct talks. The official death toll from last week’s earthquakes in Venezuela has passed 1,700. Experts fear that’s still a serious undercount. Officials in Russia are careful not to blame economic problems on the war with Ukraine. But Russians are tired of the mismatch between rhetoric and reality. Weather The heat forecast for Tuesday. Orange indicates dangerous levels of heat. Source: NOAA Dangerous heat is expected across much of the United States this week. Temperatures could hit triple digits. Use our interactive map to see heat forecasts where you live. Wildfires are raging in Arizona, Colorado and Utah, after a dry winter and a record-hot spring. Other Big Stories As big A.I. companies prepare to go public, bringing new levels of wealth into the Bay Area, some tech workers doubt they can afford to stay there. (This link is free.) A law meant to end surprise medical billing has led to pay as high as $22,000 an hour for some surgical assistants, who can earn far more than the doctors they help. A space telescope set in orbit two decades ago is falling toward earth. A robotic spacecraft is scheduled to launch this morning on a mission to nudge it back up. OPINIONS @playdrone_ Since the earthquakes, Venezuelans have had to fend for themselves under a repressive government that has abandoned them, Carolina Jiménez Sandoval writes. Trump’s re-election seemed to be a generational political realignment. But the vibe is shifting again, David Wallace-Wells writes. (This link is free.) A.I. won’t take all our jobs because it can’t reason like a human, Zeynep Tufekci writes. Deeply reported journalism needs your support. The Times relies on subscribers to help fund our mission. Become a subscriber today. MORNING READS Alex Kent/The New York Times At the fair: The Great American State Fair is underway on the National Mall — so far, with sparse attendance. Manners: A French psychologist says a trend toward American-style “gentle” parenting is making French children unbearable. (This link is free.) Your pick: The most clicked link in The Morning yesterday was a photo essay about people who clean houses and mow lawns in the Hamptons. Gym rat: Les Mills represented New Zealand in four Olympic Games, in shot put and discus, then founded a fitness empire that helped popularize aerobics. He died at 91. TODAY’S NUMBER 70 percent — That is the rough percentage of parents in Australia who said their children still had accounts on social media, despite a law banning anyone under 16 from major platforms. “What you’re effectively asking us to do with this is fence the ocean,” a government official said. WORLD CUP Germany, considered a World Cup contender, is out after losing on penalty kicks to Paraguay. Japan is done, too, succumbing to a late comeback from Brazil, which scored in the 96th minute to win 2-1. Morocco triumphed over the Netherlands, also on penalty kicks. Morocco’s decisive shot came from Ismael Saibari, who’s played his entire professional career in the Netherlands. RECIPE OF THE DAY Christopher Testani for The New York Times You can deploy ranch dressing in any number of ways. It’s terrific on a salad, of course, and with crunchy raw vegetables. But I particularly like it as a dip for pizza crusts and for chicken wings. I’ve been making those in the oven lately, so I can eat them while watching W.N.B.A. games or the World Cup. No recipe: just dry flats tossed with salt, pepper, cornstarch and a little oil. Lay them out on a racked sheet pan and roast at 425 until crisp. Toss with a mixture of melted butter and plenty of Frank’s hot sauce. Get on that. A HOLY PLACE Ross Mantle for The New York Times Generations of “Dawn of the Dead” fans have made pilgrimages to the mall in Monroeville, Pa., that George A. Romero filled with zombies in the late 1970s. But this year’s gathering of what’s called the Living Dead Weekend had an elegiac feel: Walmart has bought the building and plans to demolish it. Folks are bummed. “I’d equate visiting the mall to going to Georgetown and standing at the bottom of the steps where Father Karras lands in ‘The Exorcist,’” one fan said. “Or going to Martha’s Vineyard and seeing Quint’s shack from ‘Jaws.’” More on culture A heat wave’s a great time to catch up on movies. Our critics selected the best films of the year so far. (This link is free.) American classical music at 250: still basically European. Late night hosts continue to mock the Reflecting Pool. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS Kimber Streams/NYT Wirecutter Store important documents in this fireproof safe. How do we know it’s fireproof? I’ll let the pyromaniacs at Wirecutter tell that story. Sleep better by adopting little rituals to wind down. (This link is free.) Hang a blanket over your windows this week, particularly those that get afternoon sun. On the East Coast and across the Midwest, anyway, it’s going to be hot. ☀️ GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangram was fanciful. 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 Correction: Yesterday’s newsletter misidentified the singer of “Hit the Wall.” She is Gracie Abrams, not Gracie Adams. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Host: Sam Sifton Editor: Adam B. Kushner News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti Associate Editor: Lauren Jackson News Staff: Evan Gorelick, Brent Lewis, Lara McCoy, Karl Russell Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Editorial Director, Newsletters: Jodi Rudoren

⚽ 1 for the road: World Cup shocks Paraguay players celebrate after defeating Germany in a penalty shootout to advance to the World Cup round of 16 yesterday. Photo: Charles Krupa/AP All four matches in the World Cup's knockout stage so far have been won in the final minutes or on penalties: Paraguay beat Germany 4-3 on penalties yesterday to earn the biggest upset of the tournament and send the 2014 champions home. In the earliest-ever World Cup exit for the Netherlands, Morocco's leading scorer Ismael Saibari netted the decisive goal in a penalty shootout after a 1-1 draw last night in Guadalupe (near Monterrey), Mexico. Keep reading. Brazil came from behind to beat Japan 2-1 with a dramatic goal in the 96th minute. Canada opened the round a day earlier with a 1-0 win over South Africa on a 90th-minute goal. 📺 Today's schedule for the round of 32: Ivory Coast vs. Norway (1 p.m. ET) ... France vs. Sweden (5 p.m.) ... Mexico vs. Ecuador (9 p.m.).

🌡️ Mapped: Holiday heat wave Map: National Weather Service This map shows a dangerous heat wave building across the U.S. and creeping east ahead of the holiday weekend. More than 160 million Americans — about half the country — are under a heat advisory, watch or warning. The National Weather Service warns that the extreme heat will peak in the Midwest with triple-digit temperatures from today through Thursday. Then it slides into the East for July Fourth. Go deeper: What's causing the heat wave.

🧑‍💻 Remote work is thriving Data: Bureau of Labor Statistics. Chart: Danielle Alberti/Axios The CEOs lost this one: New government data shows 35% of U.S. workers did some or all of their work at home last year — significantly higher than in the previous decade, Axios' Emily Peck writes. In 2019, only 24% of workers did some or all of their work from home. By 2022, that number had risen to 34% and has held relatively steady since. Keep reading.

📉 Charted: Crypto's rough year Data: Yahoo Finance. Chart: Noah Bressner/Axios Bitcoin is down 43.7% over the past year and now trades below its level on Election Day 2024 — before it rallied on President Trump's pledge to make America the world's "crypto capital." The token has shed more than half its value since hitting an all-time high of $126,080 in October. Between the lines: Michael Saylor's Strategy Inc. — a major crypto holder — announced plans to sell as much as $1.25 billion worth of the coin. Saylor was famous in the crypto community for his "never sell" mantra.

💵 Trump's Supreme Court wall Illustration: Lindsey Bailey/Axios The Supreme Court this term gave President Trump powers over the federal government that no modern president has held, Axios' Courtenay Brown and Andrew Pantazi write. But it blocked his administration on two of the biggest issues for markets: the Fed and tariffs. Why it matters: The rulings hand the president firmer command of the bureaucracy, pulling back only where investors worried political interference could unsettle markets. 🔭 Zoom in: Case by case, the court gave Trump a freer hand to fire, deport and act before judges could catch up. The court gave his administration major immigration wins, including on asylum access and temporary protected status. It repeatedly sided with Trump on emergency appeals, letting contested policies take effect while litigation continued. It also let him fire Federal Trade Commission officials at will, making it harder for Congress to create independent agencies outside direct White House control. Covers of today's New York Post and New York Times. At the same time, the court ruled against him in two high-stakes fights: The Fed: It denied his bid to immediately fire Fed governor Lisa Cook, ruling he must first clear the legal hurdles Congress put in place. Tariffs: It found he couldn't use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose sweeping tariffs, eliminating one of his fastest and broadest trade tools. 🥊 Reality check: The rulings haven't ended either battle. The White House has continued to pursue tariffs through other legal authorities after losing that case. Trump has said his administration will keep investigating whether it can ultimately remove Cook.

⚠️ New AI bust warning Data: BIS. Chart: Danielle Alberti/Axios Today's AI buildout resembles earlier technological revolutions and capital booms that ended in painful busts. That's the new warning from the Bank for International Settlements, a top forum known as the "central bank for central banks." Why it matters: The technological revolutions that transform the economy have a long history of attracting more investment than near-term returns justify, Axios' Courtenay Brown writes. AI could follow that pattern at a moment when the global economy is unusually reliant on a single investment boom to keep the expansion on track. 🔬 Zoom in: Some of the world's greatest technological breakthroughs — canals, railroads, the internet — sparked enormous investment booms, with capital pouring into new infrastructure years before the payoff became clear. If returns disappoint, today's surge in AI spending could become "a protracted investment bust" and spark a stock-market correction that could stunt worldwide growth, the BIS said. 💰 Stunning stat: The five biggest "hyperscalers" are expected to invest more than $1 trillion from 2025 through 2026, the Financial Times notes. Keep reading.

Trump's "Swiss Army" tools Photo illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios. Photos: Getty Images Axios' Marc Caputo and Barak Ravid bring us this intel from inside the White House: As President Trump tries to hammer out a peace deal with Iran, he has a dovish adviser in Vice President Vance perched on one figurative shoulder — and a hawkish Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the other. Why it matters: The success of the talks — and therefore the health of global oil markets — greatly depends on how well Trump deploys each man to balance competing interests in Iran, Israel and Lebanon. A top Trump adviser told us: "Think of Marco and JD as aspects of the president's personality and policy. There's a more pro-Israel aspect of it, and that's Rubio. And there's a more Israel-skeptic aspect. That's JD." 🔎 Zoom in: Vance and Rubio differed during internal deliberations about the landmark June 17 memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the U.S. and Iran. Vance negotiated the deal with Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. The VP thought Trump should sign off to end the war, reopen the Strait of Hormuz and stabilize the economy ahead of the midterms, according to several U.S. sources. Rubio, with CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, was skeptical of the MOU and the chances it could lead to a comprehensive nuclear deal. Between the lines: The negotiations are complex because they're trilateral, involving Israel, Iran and Lebanon. They include three agreements: The MOU signed on June 17 between Iran and the U.S. A June 21 agreement Vance struck with Iran in Switzerland concerning Lebanon. A peace framework, shepherded by Rubio, signed Friday by Israel and Lebanon. Friction point: On Rubio's track, the parties worked to block Iran from interfering in Lebanon. But Vance's track gave the Iranians a say in the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, which the U.S. classifies as an Iran-backed terrorist group. The two tracks collided. Hezbollah and its allies in Lebanon were furious, declared Rubio's deal null and void, and demanded that the parties abide by the U.S.–Iran MOU negotiated by Vance. Said another U.S. official, playing down the situation: "To the Iranians, the deals conflict. To us, they do not. It depends on how you interpret those clauses." 👀 The intrigue: U.S. officials say the result of the Iran negotiations could have domestic political implications — especially for the 2028 Republican presidential nomination. One U.S. official said Rubio didn't take the front seat in the Iran negotiations for a reason: "He is waiting to see if Vance self-destructs." But another senior U.S. official called that characterization "boneheaded and wrong. Both Marco and JD are executing the president's will." White House principal deputy press secretary Anna Kelly said: "There is one camp — President Trump's camp — and the entire administration is fully behind the president's efforts to ensure Iran can never possess a nuclear weapon."

THIS DAY IN HISTORY June 30 1520 Spanish retreat from Aztec capital June 30, 1520: Faced with an Aztec revolt against their rule, forces under the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés fight their way out of Tenochtitlan at heavy cost. Known to the Spanish as La Noche Triste, or “the Night of Sadness,” many soldiers drowned in Lake Texcoco when the vessel carrying them and Aztec treasures hoarded […] read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT 19th Century 1876 Wounded soldiers evacuated from the Little Big Horn by steamboat 1859 Daredevil crosses Niagara Falls on tightrope 1950s 1953 First Chevy Corvette rolls off the assembly line Arts & Entertainment 1989 “Do the Right Thing” released in theaters 1936 “Gone With the Wind” published Black History 2015 Misty Copeland becomes American Ballet Theater’s first Black principal dancer Inventions & Science 1905 Einstein publishes his groundbreaking theory of relativity Space Exploration 1971 Soviet cosmonauts perish in reentry disaster World War II 1934 Hitler purges members of his own Nazi party in Night of the Long Knives

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