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The Supreme Court sides with Trump on immigration, IBM unveils a record-breaking chip, and a giraffe named Gracie is still on the loose in Texas.
Politics & World
6-3 SCOTUS ruling directly affects over 1 million people currently in the US under TPS, opening path to deportation; companion asylum ruling reshapes border policy; major domestic legal and political story with immediate…
Business
Apple and Microsoft simultaneously raising prices on flagship consumer products due to AI-driven…
Sources: Axios, Ars Technica, CNBC Top News
Science & Tech
IBM’s sub-1nm chip with 100 billion transistors on a fingernail-sized area is a potential Moore’s…
Sources: Ars Technica, MIT Tech Review
Points scored by Toronto Tempo’s Marina Mabrey on Thursday night, tying the WNBA’s all-time single-game scoring record set by Riquna Williams in 2013 — a mark that stood for 13 years. Mabrey also tied the record for 3-pointers in a game with nine, doing it all in a 28-point blowout win.
Source: ESPN
How a Texas man received a 30-year prison sentence for moving a box of antifascist zines during an ICE protest at the Prairieland detention facility.
The Intercept · Matt Sledge
Why Venezuela’s deadly earthquake is testing the limits of U.S. disaster relief as the death toll climbs and diplomatic tensions complicate the response.
Council on Foreign Relations
How Anthropic has built its entire safety argument around the premise that only its own commercial success can prevent AI from going wrong — and what that means for the field.
Wired · Maxwell Zeff
The U.S. men’s national soccer team’s World Cup run is over, but the Round of 16 begins this weekend with group winners advancing across all brackets — watch for Brazil vs. Germany on Saturday.
Phoebe Bridgers’ new album ‘Lost Weekend’ drops August 14. The lead single ‘Lost Boys’ is out now.
The WNBA’s Alyssa Thomas serves her one-game suspension; watch for Phoenix Mercury’s next scheduled game for her return and any fallout from the Caitlin Clark incident.
Hollywood labor watchers will track whether the newly ratified DGA four-year deal sets the template for any remaining guild negotiations heading into the back half of 2026.
Today’s clickbait, so you don’t have toJPMorgan Fired a Senior Executive for Stealing a Trash Can at the Knicks Parade
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— President John F. Kennedy, June 26, 1963
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