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US and Iran vie for control of Strait of Hormuz in latest attacks Each country asserted Monday that they controlled the waterway after a weekend of attacks stretching across the wider Middle East, further threatening any diplomacy to end the war. Read more. Why this matters: Iran and the U.S. are nearly at the midway point of the 60-day period of an interim deal that was supposed to set up talks for a permanent end to the war. Instead, it has devolved into a series of attacks over the strait and its future, worrying world leaders that the Iran war could fully resume. RELATED COVERAGE ➤ WATCH: The US military’s latest wave of strikes Oil prices jump following new attacks Iran persecutes its Baha’i minority fiercely in a year of protests and war, rights groups say Qatar’s former ruler Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani has died at 74 Support for Israel is less important for younger Jewish Americans, AP-NORC poll finds

Armed Israeli Settlers Detained Ro Khanna. He Wants Their Illegal Outposts Demolished. On a hot Wednesday afternoon in the Palestinian village of Zanuta, California Rep. Ro Khanna walked through the ruins of a Palestinian school demolished by Israeli settlers several years earlier. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/11/ro-khanna-west-bank-settler-violence-palestine-israel/? Rebecca Nagle on the Boomerang of Empire Last spring, President Donald Trump issued the “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” executive order, taking aim at federal parks, monuments, museums, and sites that have cast the United States’s “founding principles and historical milestones in a negative light.” On the Fourth of July this year, the White House published its 162-page “Saving America’s Story,” attacking the Smithsonian Institution directly for “anti-white activism,” “illegal alien activism,” “transgender activism,” and more broadly for adopting “an ideological framework that no longer treats the American story as a shared national inheritance to be taught or celebrated, but as a political instrument to divide, dispirit, and discourage our citizens.” https://theintercept.com/2026/07/11/america-250-history-myths-native/? Maine Senate Candidates Claim They’re Just Like Platner — But Entirely Different Candidates entering the Maine Senate race after Graham Platner suspended his campaign following a rape allegation are walking a fine line between distancing themselves from the disgraced candidate and embracing his base, which they’ll need to beat Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, in November. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/10/maine-senate-platner-replace-nirav-shah-troy-jackson/? Company That Bragged It Could Track U.S. Spies Hired to Investigate “Havana Syndrome” The U.S. military inquiry into the so-called Havana syndrome, the mysterious illness claimed by a litany of American intelligence officers, is tapping a controversial contractor: a private surveillance firm that once boasted of its ability to stalk American intelligence officers. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/12/anomaly-6-havana-syndrome-surveillance/? The Trump Administration Is Overhauling Birth Control Access for the Pronatalist Movement The Trump administration is quietly turning a federal program designed to help lower-income Americans access birth control and other reproductive health services into an engine for pronationalism, a far-right movement with roots in eugenics that pushes people to have more babies. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/10/rfk-jr-pronatalism-birth-control/? DSA Members Urge Campaigns to Ditch Platner Consultant Who Advised Mamdani Members of the Democratic Socialists of America circulated a letter calling on candidates and elected officials to refuse to work with the consultants who handled Graham Platner’s campaign, according to screenshots of the letter shared with The Intercept. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/10/dsa-graham-platner-morris-katz-consultant/?

I would think those are maily for the cruise ship passengers or such with high volumes of people rushing to the officers.

Well, may need to look for some of my old laptops to say nothing of the many desktops I have stacked up..

I don't think so. China hates any organization. Organizations can threaten their power.

Just a note from a new Linux user on social media, Reddit. ------------------------------------------------------ First-time Linux user here. I was a Microsoft user for about 25 years, then switched to a Mac for work. A couple of days ago, more or less out of nowhere, I decided I wanted to give Linux a try. I remembered I still had an old Windows laptop lying around, about 8–10 years old. I used it regularly until around 2020 and was always annoyed by how slow it was. It really struggled with Windows, it took minutes just to load a browser or open Word. Gaming was never really an option on it anyway, I bought it for office work during my studies. I booted it up and it still turned on, still slow as hell, but it worked. So I grabbed my Mac, flashed a USB drive with Linux Mint, and installed it on the laptop. I didn't care that all the data was gone, I hadn't needed it in the last six years, and I wasn't going to need it now. The installation process was flawless. My printer set itself up automatically, and pretty much everything I needed was already preinstalled. What surprised me even more was how incredibly easy the transition was. I expected there to be a much steeper learning curve, vaguely hearing about "the terminal" and all, but using Linux mint is basically the same as Windows (please dont hurt me) And I don't even know what to say. It might sound kind of weird and a bit ridiculous, but I'm a huge fan of my old laptop now. It kind of gives me these rebellious, "take the power back" vibes. I haven't used my Mac in days, just this old dinosaur of a computer. It runs great with linux and is really fast, at least in the limits of its possibilites. I'm browsing with Brave, writing stuff in LibreOffice, planning things in Obsidian, and installing all kinds of open-source software that kind of does the same jobs as apps I have to pay for on my Mac (even the "app store" works great). Not everything is perfect, but that's kind of part of the charm. I don't know... I somehow became an instant fan. Next I might try to install some old games from the early 2000s I still have lying around on CD. Anyway, that's it. Nothing more to see here. Just wanted to share that I think Linux, and especially Linux Mint, absolutely rules.

There is a difference between traditionalists from whatever faith, and exegetics/ Biblical Theology. I very much respect Jewish teachers who use exegesis, Biblical Theology and archaeology etc. These are indeed brothers and sisters in the faith.

The results of the growth and removal of nodules on her voice box left her with a voice that felt so full of pain, sadness and tears that she was able to sing with power and enters into her listener's ears and flows right to the heart. Such a beautiful voice. Of the three songs of hers I'm familiar with, while all beautiful, my favorite was "It's a heart ache". Loosing her at such a young age is a heart ache.

July 13, 2026 By Sam Sifton Good morning. The cease-fire between the United States and Iran continues to unravel. There’s a lot more news below. But I’d like to start today with the question of who’s really running Venezuela. Marco Rubio Kenny Holston/The New York Times The viceroy of Venezuela In the early hours of Jan. 3, shortly after U.S. commandos snatched Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela, from his bedroom in a daring nighttime raid, Secretary of State Marco Rubio called Delcy Rodríguez, Venezuela’s vice president. Speaking in Spanish, he told her she faced a choice: work with the United States or experience an escalating attack on her country’s infrastructure, military bases and senior officials. After some negotiation, Rodríguez bent the knee. In the months since, my colleagues Tyler Pager and Anatoly Kurmanaev report, Rubio has emerged as Venezuela’s de facto viceroy, a kind of heir to the powerful governors who once ruled the domains of the Spanish Empire, including the territory that is now Venezuela. Rubio has effective control of Venezuela’s finances, its natural resources and its government, Tyler and Anatoly discovered after speaking with a dozen officials in Washington and Caracas. He is closely involved in the day-to-day operations of the country, and he remains in close contact with Rodríguez, who now runs Venezuela on an acting basis with the blessing of the United States. He has weighed in personally on her governmental appointments, such as the minister of defense. He asserts control over her public appearances and statements. He successfully encouraged her to remove Maduro’s family and business partners from positions of power, and inveighed upon her officials to provide intelligence that allowed the U.S. military to kill one of the leaders of the gang Tren de Aragua. They trade gossip and selfies over text message. It’s no buddy movie, though. The relationship between Rubio and Rodríguez, the reporters write, “is a manifestation of Trump-era American power, in which the winner takes all regardless of sovereignty and international law.” Then they illustrated that power in a single, amazing paragraph: The U.S. Treasury receives the revenue from most of Venezuela’s exports, then disburses it to Venezuela through the country’s banking system, a relationship akin to parents handing out allowances to children. Mr. Rubio and his team set the conditions on what that money can be spent on, and by whom. Seeking permission Rubio has said that the Trump administration’s plan for Venezuela has three stages: Recover the economy, stabilize the country and transition it to democracy. Before last month’s earthquakes, the administration said it was in the second stage, and trying to bring international investment into Venezuela. To move the effort along, senior Trump officials went to Venezuela to meet with Rodríguez’s administration and strike energy and mining deals. Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodriguez, and U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum in Caracas in March. Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Reuters Tyler and Anatoly have a great story about one of those visits. In March, Doug Burgum, the interior secretary, met with Rodríguez at the presidential palace in Caracas. Rubio texted her during the visit to ask how it was going. Very well, she responded. I’ll let the reporters take it from there: But the meeting was overshadowed by damaging news. Reuters reported that day that the Justice Department was quietly building a legal case against Ms. Rodríguez. Ms. Rodríguez’s administration was shocked, and sought clarification from the White House. To allay Ms. Rodríguez’s concerns, Todd Blanche, then the deputy attorney general, called the report “completely FALSE.” But the Venezuelan government sought further assurances. So the next day Mr. Rubio texted Mr. Rodríguez the link to a social media post from the U.S. president. “Delcy Rodríguez, who is the President of Venezuela, is doing a great job, and working with U.S. Representatives very well,” Mr. Trump wrote. Ms. Rodríguez was pleased, and wanted to thank Mr. Trump with a post of her own. But first, she shared the draft with Mr. Rubio. She posted it after receiving his approval. The whole article is here. It’s riveting. Some other great reads follow. We’ve made it a free link, along with a few others that caught my eye today: How many books, do you suppose, is too many books? One guy’s landlord thought 10,000 was too many for a Manhattan studio apartment. Here’s the eviction tale from Alex Vadukul, whose job it is to find these sorts of situations. The American socialist movement has been better at critiquing the system than reshaping it. But it stormed the Democratic Party anyway, and it has attained a new kind of mainstream political power. How did that happen? Jia Lynn Yang, who writes about ideas, explored the question. One degree from Kevin Bacon. The art critic Jerry Saltz joined the podcast “Pablo Torre Finds Out” to talk about the best, worst and sexiest trophies in sports. He doesn’t hold back. Beekeepers in South Carolina’s Lowcountry are trying to save local honeybees from invasive hornets. One state official compared the struggle to “fighting Satan.” THE LATEST NEWS Congress Lindsey Graham Will Crooks for The New York Times Senator Lindsey Graham likely died from a tear in his aorta, officials said. His obituary was the most clicked link in The Morning yesterday. After weeks of silence, Senator Mitch McConnell posted a photo and a public statement announcing that he had been hospitalized for a fall, and then had pneumonia. Graham’s death and McConnell’s hospitalization offered the latest reminders that the Senate is run by geriatrics. Around the World Times Exclusive: For years, Israel tried to groom Iran’s former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as an intelligence asset. But in the early days of the war, the plan fell apart. Japan is building a centralized intelligence agency for the first time since World War II. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine dismissed the prime minister as part of an overhaul of his political strategy. Other Big Stories The Supreme Court is asking Congress for millions of dollars for increased security. Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan are scheduled to make a rare appearance at the Capitol to discuss the request. The Justice Department is investigating the United Automobile Workers president Shawn Fain over accusations that he abused his office. He has said he faces “bogus allegations.” OPINIONS Celina Pereira Will Democrats or Republicans win the midterms? Six pollsters and pundits, including Nate Silver and Lynn Vavreck, look into their crystal balls. Ideological extremism in American politics has created a race to the bottom, David French writes. Deeply reported journalism needs your support. The Times relies on subscribers to help fund our mission. Become a subscriber today. TODAY’S NUMBER 800 — That is how many pounds of peanut butter workers troweled into a gigantic hexagon on a gallery floor in the Netherlands to honor the Dutch artist Wim T. Schippers, who died last month at 83. The total volume used for Schippers’s “Peanut Butter Floor” is equivalent to roughly 860 16-ounce jars. SPORTS Jannik Sinner Cameron Spencer/Getty Images Wimbledon: Jannik Sinner came back from a set down to beat Alexander Zverev for his second straight title and fifth Grand Slam championship. Zverev played nearly perfect tennis, but admitted afterward it would take actually perfect tennis to beat Sinner, whose serve was too mighty. World Cup: FIFA’s president, Gianni Infantino, said he’s considering having 64 teams in the next tournament, in 2030. (This current World Cup had 48.) An expansion has pros and cons. RECIPE OF THE DAY Johnny Miller for The New York Times The algorithm served me a video of some guy cooking steak Diane and suddenly that was all I wanted for dinner. You can make it yourself with any thin cut of beef, but I think a pounded-out filet mignon is best. Serve with those little potatoes that have come to dominate the produce aisle at the supermarket, roasted crisp so you can use them to mop up the sauce that naps the steak. And maybe a thatch of watercress? SAM NEILL, 1947-2026 Sam Neill in Los Angeles in 2024. Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images Sam Neill, the versatile New Zealand screen actor who appeared in more than 150 productions over a five-decade career, died today in Sydney, Australia. He was 78. Neill combined a credible Everyman quality with rugged good looks and a hard-to-place accent. He was perhaps best known as Dr. Alan Grant in the “Jurassic Park” series. Born Nigel, he changed his name to Sam at age 11, taking inspiration from characters in western movies. It was, he said, “probably the best decision I made in my life. Sam is easy to say, sounds friendly, sounds a bit blokey and has a touch of the Labrador about it.” Same! More on culture Why, yes, I do want to see every inch of the inside of the novelist Elin Hilderbrand’s house on Nantucket. That kitchen! Wesley Morris, the host of the podcast “Cannonball,” and Caryn Ganz, who covers pop music, agree on this much: Olivia Rodrigo’s new release, “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love,” could be the album of the year. Listen to and watch them talk about its excellence, and about the joys of heartbreak pop. They’re here. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS Alisha Jucevic for The New York Times Avoid that severe stomach bug that’s going around. Rinse your produce thoroughly. Listen to “Mr. Tambourine Man,” the Byrds’ first single, released in 1965. Roger McGuinn, the band’s frontman, turns 84 today. Lessen the dank, fusty, mildew-encouraging funkiness of your cellar (or home), with the best dehumidifier tested by the basement dwellers at Wirecutter. Take our news quiz. GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangrams were awakening, wakening and weakening. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections, Crossplay and Strands. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times and me. See you tomorrow. — Sam Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Host: Sam Sifton Editor: Adam B. Kushner News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti Associate Editor: Lauren Jackson News Staff: Evan Gorelick, Brent Lewis, Lara McCoy, Karl Russell Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Editorial Director, Newsletters: Jodi Rudoren

THIS DAY IN HISTORY July 13 2013 The hashtag #BlackLivesMatter first appears, sparking a movement The Black Lives Matter movement begins when Alicia Garza posts a message on Facebook on July 13, 2013 that contains the phrase "Black lives matter." read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT 1970s 1978 Henry Ford II fires Lee Iacocca Arts & Entertainment 1990 “Ghost” opens in theaters 1985 Live Aid concert raises more than $100 million for famine relief in Africa Black History 2015 Sandra Bland dies in jail after traffic stop confrontation Civil War 1863 Draft riots rock New York City Cold War 1949 Pope Pius XII excommunicates all communist Catholics Crime 1966 A mass murderer leaves eight women dead 1955 Last woman hanged for murder in Great Britain Early U.S. 1787 Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance European History 1793 Charlotte Corday assassinates French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat Sports 1930 First World Cup tournament begins U.S. Presidents 1960 John F. Kennedy nominated for presidency Vietnam War 1969 George Wallace criticizes President Nixon’s handling of the war

⛰️ 1 fun thing: Rare superbloom Green gentians, or monument plants, are blooming in the mountains of Colorado. Photo: John Frank/Axios The green gentian, or monument plant, is superblooming on Colorado's hillsides — a rare phenomenon during which dormant wildflowers blossom simultaneously, Axios Denver's John Frank writes. The plant lives 20–60 years, sending up a flower-covered stalk 5 feet or taller before it blooms once and dies.

⚜️ Data center payout This giant data center is under construction in Richland Parish, La. Photo: Meta Meta announced an expansion of a data center now under construction in Richland Parish, La. — which already was Meta's biggest — to 5GW of compute capacity. That'll make it one of the largest data centers in history. Tax revenue from the data center funded teacher bonuses up to $50,000 this year in rural Richland Parish, Meta said, as part of a PR campaign amid national backlash against data centers. Richland Parish is a four-hour drive north of New Orleans, near the Arkansas state line. The first part of the data center is expected to open in 2028. Meta says it's investing more than $50 billion in the region, with $1.6 billion in local contracts and 1,000+ jobs. Sheldon Jones, superintendent of the Richland Parish School System, called the checks "life-altering for our teachers and their families, and it's transforming our schools." 🥊 Reality check: Data centers have become one of the most contentious local issues in America. Communities elsewhere are fighting over power bills, water supplies and noise complaints. 🎷 P.S. At a New Orleans reception last night, teachers, business owners and community leaders from Richland Parish celebrated Louisiana's future with the state's civic, business, and political leaders, and Dina Powell, Meta's president and vice chairman. Musical performers included Delfeayo Marsalis, a New Orleans jazz trombonist and Wynton Marsalis' brother. More on the bonuses … Full statement.

🕯️ Transforming America's racist landmarks Illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios. Stock: Getty Images A former Ku Klux Klan hall in Texas is becoming an arts center — one of several racist landmarks across the U.S. that communities are trying to turn from symbols of terror into sites of reparation, Axios' Russell Contreras and Delano Massey write. Why it matters: Years after the backlash against Confederate monuments, new fights have emerged over what to do with remaining physical reminders of racism. Zoom in: In Fort Worth, Texas, advocates are turning the former KKK Klavern No. 101 auditorium into an arts and community center named for a Black lynching victim. Similar moves are unfolding across the country: In Laurens, S.C., a former segregated theater that later housed a KKK museum was remade as the Echo Project, an anti-hate education center. In New Orleans, a former segregated school has become the Tate Etienne & Prevost Center, with civil rights exhibits, antiracism groups and affordable senior housing. In Drew, Miss., the Emmett Till Interpretive Center is transforming the barn where 14-year-old Emmett Till was tortured and killed in 1955 into a memorial and a place for reflection. Keep reading.

🦾 Charted: Memory's earnings edge Data: FactSet. Chart: Matt Phillips/Axios The AI-driven price boom for memory chips and products is expected to keep Sandisk and Micron atop the sales leaderboard this earnings season, Axios' Matt Phillips writes from consensus Wall Street forecasts. 👀 What we're watching: Whether these giant forecasts (charted above) are achieved, and if they actually excite the market. Just last week, gobsmacking results from Korean chip giant Samsung were followed by a steep sell-off.

Dems' payback panel Photos: Getty Images Axios CEO Jim VandeHei writes in his weekly C-Suite newsletter focusing on CEOs and their teams: If Democrats win the House in November, they plan to keep hammering on the Epstein files because the issue divides Republicans and "makes Trump crazy," a top insider tells us. Why it matters: In the majority, Democratic committee chairs would hold subpoena power. We're told they plan to make President Trump's family finances one of their top targets, to contrast average Americans' finances with this term's gusher for Trump, his relatives and allies. These are the chairs-in-waiting for six of the most powerful House committees, and the control they could exert over CEOs and other business leaders: 1. Oversight and Government Reform: Robert Garcia (Calif.) Garcia would go hard on corruption and self-dealing among Trump allies. He wants to make their lives hell. No committee matters more if Dems win. Why you should care: If you've done any business with the administration, this is your top reputational risk. The Oversight chair can drag you to Capitol Hill to make you answer for it. Trump can and will pardon his family but not you and your company. 2. Energy and Commerce: Frank Pallone (N.J.) Pallone would have jurisdiction over issues ranging from algorithmic pricing to children's safety online. He's out front on data centers, calling for a national moratorium. Why you should care: He'll grill you on the topics really pissing people off right now. Consider him the guy building the data center case for the Dems' nominee in '28. Anyone who made deals with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his agencies should lawyer up — and lobbyist up, too. 3. Ways and Means: Richard "Richie" Neal (Mass.) Neal's committee room will be the place in Washington most eager to discuss corporate tax rates and Trump's tariffs. Why you should care: Expect him to use his bully pulpit to push companies on paying their fair share to the IRS. This is where the '28 tax debate begins. 4. Appropriations: Rosa DeLauro (Conn.) DeLauro, 83, wants to make Trump answer for every penny he's spent and withheld. Why you should care: Organizations that rely on government funding — including contracts, grants, research dollars — could get pulled into a Hill hearing. 5. Financial Services: Maxine Waters (Calif.) Waters, who will turn 88 next month, would dig into who was in the loop when it came to pulling back enforcement on topics like crypto. Why you should care: If your industry benefited from the lax financial oversight of the past couple of years, you risk becoming tied to that narrative, especially if you talked to Trump officials about it. 6. Judiciary: Jamie Raskin (Md.) He's been a leading antitrust voice and has slammed the Trump administration's role in Paramount Skydance's takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. Why you should care: If you're pursuing a big merger and the president feels like getting involved, Raskin's committee would become one big headache. Axios' Andrew Solender contributed reporting.

Italy's Jannik Sinner wins his second Wimbledon title, in photos Jannik Sinner has beaten Alexander Zverev in four sets for his second consecutive Wimbledon title and fifth Grand Slam trophy. The top-ranked Italian lost the first set of the men's final but recovered to win 6-7 (7), 7-6 (2), 6-3, 6-4 on Sunday at the All England Club. ___ This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors. Read More.

Keystone Pipeline system's operator agrees to pay a $26.9M penalty over a major Kansas oil spill A proposed legal settlement with the U.S. government would require the Keystone Pipeline system's operator to pay a $26.9 million civil penalty over a major oil spill in Kansas in December 2022 and spend about $40 million more to prevent future accidents. Read More.

Syria's new parliament holds first session since ouster of ex-President Assad Syria's newly elected parliament on Sunday held its first session since the ouster of former President Bashar Assad, hoping to restart the legislative process in the country after years of conflict and autocratic rule. Read More.

The US launches more strikes on Iran as the standoff over the Strait of Hormuz escalates DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United States launched several waves of strikes on Iran into Monday morning over an Iranian attack on a container ship in the Strait of Hormuz that set it ablaze and left a crew member missing over the weekend. Iran retaliated by targeting countries across the Middle East. https://apnews.com/article/iran-usa-united-arab-emirates-attack-0764d17c09370a8c5cf1e8197a8878ab?

US strikes Iran over latest ship attack and Tehran responds by hitting Arab states The United States attacked Iran early Sunday morning over an Iranian strike on a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz that set the container ship ablaze and forced its crew to abandon it. Iran responded with attacks targeting several countries in the Middle East, including Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Jordan. The U.S. military and Trump asserted that the strait remained open Sunday. Iran said the strait was closed until calm is restored. Read more. RELATED COVERAGE ➤ Trump suggests a standing order to attack Iran if it assassinates him. But Vance would make the call Democratic congressman says he was detained by the Israeli military and settlers in the West Bank Global oil demand is dropping, but US drivers keep buying more gas China blocks exports of helium, key for chipmaking, as Iran war squeezes supply

🇳🇴 1 for the road: The Viking rows home Norway's Erling Haaland (left) congratulates England's Jude Bellingham in Miami yesterday. Photo: Roberto Schmidt / AFP via Getty Images England beat Norway in the World Cup quarterfinals, marking the end of the line for one of the internet's favorite tournament stars. Erling Haaland, the 6-foot-5 superhuman — or to some corners of the internet, a "babygirl" — and Norway's fan-favorite football team fell 2–1 to England. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jude Bellingham scored both of England's goals. More on the match. Bellingham's England will face Lionel Messi's Argentina, the reigning World Cup champs, in a semifinal showdown on Wednesday at 3 p.m. ET in Atlanta. How Argentina beat Switzerland 3–1 in extra time in Kansas City last night. Argentina–England lookahead. Photo: Matthew Stockman/Getty Images 🎾 At Wimbledon, Catherine, Princess of Wales, presents Linda Nosková of the Czech Republic, 21, with the Venus Rosewater Dish as women's singles champion after she beat fellow Czech Karolína Muchová at the All England Club in London yesterday. Keep reading.

🕵️ Mystery stomach bug Illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios Delayed federal health tracking and limited testing are making it harder to trace the source of an ongoing outbreak of a parasitic disease that's triggering "explosive diarrhea," Axios' Herb Scribner reports. "Nobody's identified a source yet … or a particular food or a particular line of transmission," David Freedman, a professor emeritus of infectious diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, told Axios. "But there's something going on." 😷 Cyclosporiasis cases normally climb in the summer, but this year's outbreak has spread rapidly and sickened people across at least 31 states. The CDC has identified at least 843 confirmed domestic cases and over 1,500 that require further analysis. Share this story ... CDC resources.

🐻 Goldilocks GPT Illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios OpenAI is leaving it up to users to figure out what works best for them after dropping a new app and a jumble of new models. AI tools can help non-coders deliver more work better, faster and cheaper — if those workers can determine their "just right" settings, Axios' Megan Morrone writes. Catch up quick: OpenAI released three GPT-5.6 models last week and introduced ChatGPT Work, an agent for longer, multi-step tasks, inside its newly unified ChatGPT app. 🔎 ChatGPT Work can use connected apps and files to research, analyze and create documents, spreadsheets, presentations, reports and websites. The new desktop app folds Codex, chat and Work into one place. The three new models are Sol, Terra and Luna. ☀️ Sol is the flagship model, available only to Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise users. 🌍 Terra is meant to strike a balance between speed and power. Free and $8 Go users get Terra only — and only inside ChatGPT Work and Codex. 🌙 Luna is designed for speed. ☝️ OpenAI recommends starting with a task you already know well to judge where ChatGPT Work succeeds or needs more help. Go deeper ...

🇮🇷 Iran defies U.S. Photo illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios. Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images The U.S. military launched a new round of strikes against Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz yesterday in response to an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps missile attack that badly damaged a commercial cargo ship. 💥 The Hormuz crisis has threatened to collapse the U.S.–Iran memorandum of understanding reached last month, with President Trump declaring the ceasefire "over," Axios' Barak Ravid reports. "Iran made a poor choice. Now they pay," Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote on X. Go deeper.

America's soccer spectacle Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios. Stock: Getty Images Skeptics spent months bracing for the World Cup to clash with a polarized, priced-out American public. The tournament answered with the largest U.S. viewing audiences in soccer history and diverse scenes of humanity finding harmony, Axios' Herb Scribner and Zachary Basu write. Ratings, attendance and buzz remain through the roof, even with all three host nations (USA, Canada, Mexico) knocked out. USA–Belgium's round of 16 face-off drew a final combined audience of 50.1 million viewers on Fox and Telemundo — the largest soccer audience ever recorded in the U.S. 46.7 million U.S. viewers watched England's Three Lions escape Mexico 3–2. 🧮 Stunning stat: Together, Fox says these were the most-watched non-NFL sports events in the U.S. since the 1994 Winter Olympics. Telemundo says that with Peacock's streaming viewers included, Mexico vs. England's total audience of 23.2 million made it the most-watched soccer match in Spanish-language media history. USA vs. Belgium last Monday drew 12.9 million making it the most-watched Spanish-language U.S. match. ⚽ The gameplay has lived up to the hype, offering nail-biters and nonstop theater. Things got Messi (pun intended) for defending champ Argentina, who scored a stunning comeback in the final moments against Egypt that drove the highest Google search traffic ever recorded. 🥅 France's Kylian Mbappé and Argentina's Lionel Messi are tied atop the Golden Boot race, awarded to the top scorer, with England's Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham within striking distance. Lionel Messi celebrates with teammates after a victory in Atlanta on Tuesday. Photo: Elsa/Getty Images 🤝 In host cities, the World Cup has turned into a festive cultural exchange and a moment of unity for a polarized U.S. public. Viral scenes of fans marveling at America's tailgates, ballparks, all-night diners and general abundance sparked an unlikely — and often humorous — moment of national pride. FIFA says 6,259,584 fans attended matches through the round of 16, filling 99.7% of seats with an average crowd of 65,204. 🥊 We may be successful hosts, but the U.S. national team's run ended in embarrassment. The loss was made even tougher by the Folarin Balogun red-card saga, after President Trump asked FIFA to review Balogun's suspension and FIFA cleared him to play. 👀 But the real test of America's soccer mania will come after the final whistle blows. Historically, U.S. interest in soccer has spiked hard during World Cups and faded quickly once the tournament ends. ⏳ In soccer historian Stephen Brandt's words, "It's fun while it lasts." But streaming's big names are betting this time is different, weighing bids up to $2 billion for combined English- and Spanish-language U.S. rights to the 2030 and 2034 World Cups.