↩ Accueil
❌

Vue lecture

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Cases Involving Transgender Athletes

✇NYT
Par :Abbie VanSickle
↗️
The court announced it would hear challenges to state laws barring transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports.

© Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times

The justices’ decision to hear the cases involving student athletes signals that they are willing to delve back into the culture war over transgender rights.
  •  
  • ↗️

Jeffries Passes 4-Hour Mark in House Speech Opposing Trump’s Policy Bill

✇NYT
Par :Michael Gold and Matthew Mpoke Bigg
↗️
Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the New York Democrat and minority leader, delayed a final House vote with an impassioned speech, saying he would take his “sweet time” assailing the measure.

© Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times

Representative Hakeem Jeffries spoke out against the domestic policy bill ahead of the vote in the House.
  •  
  • ↗️

Tourists Evacuated as Crete Wildfire Spreads

✇NYT
Par :Lynsey Chutel and Niki Kitsantonis
↗️
Most of those fleeing the blaze were tourists as firefighters struggled against heavy winds to bring the flames under control.

© Costas Metaxakis/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

More than 200 firefighters battled a blaze in the Greek island of Crete, but their work was made more difficult by heavy winds and rugged mountain terrain.
  •  
  • ↗️

Trump Wants the World to Squeeze Out China. He’s Starting With Vietnam.

✇NYT
Par :Alexandra Stevenson
↗️
An initial trade deal with Vietnam offers a glimpse of how President Trump is pushing countries to cut back on trade with China.

© Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

Goods for export loaded on a container at a logistics hub in Yiwu, China, China has used Vietnam and other neighboring countries to circumvent American tariffs on its goods.
  •  
  • ↗️

How Will Trump Sell His Big Policy Bill to the American Public?

✇NYT
Par :Tyler Pager
↗️
President Trump has spent days cajoling Republicans to support his spending bill. He will also have to sell it to the public as Democrats focus on all the ways it helps the wealthy.

© Kent Nishimura for The New York Times

President Trump has told Republicans he wants to sign the bill by Friday.
  •  
  • ↗️

Wall Street’s New Obsession (and Dilemma): Tokenizing Companies

✇NYT
Par :Andrew Ross Sorkin · Bernhard Warner · Sarah Kessler · Michael J. de la Merced and Danielle Kaye
↗️
Robinhood is the latest to offer investors a novel, and potentially risky, investment opportunity: crypto that’s meant to give exposure to the likes of OpenAI.

© Sasha Maslov for The New York Times

Robinhood is looking to shake up investing again — this time with the so-called tokenization of private companies.
  •  
  • ↗️

Israel and Syria in U.S.-Brokered Talks to End Border Conflict, Trump Envoy Says

✇NYT
Par :Ben Hubbard
↗️
Thomas J. Barrack Jr., the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, says Washington is facilitating the discussions and prioritizing economic development over nation-building in the Middle East.

© Mohamed Azakir/Reuters

Thomas J. Barrack Jr., third from left, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey and special envoy for Syria, is in his first diplomatic job at age 78.
  •  
  • ↗️

Sizing Up the Debt

✇NYT
Par :Evan Gorelick
↗️
We explain how economists evaluate the national debt.

© Brendan McDermid/Reuters

The debt clock in New York City. The number above includes $29 trillion held by investors, as well as the trillions more that the U.S. government itself holds.
  •  
  • ↗️

Diogo Jota, Liverpool Soccer Star, Dies in Car Crash at 28

✇NYT
Par :Ali Watkins
↗️
Mr. Jota and his brother André Silva died in Spain, the authorities said. The crash came two weeks after the Portuguese player’s wedding.

© Stu Forster/Getty Images

Diogo Jota, a Portuguese soccer star, played for Liverpool of the English Premier League.
  •  
  • ↗️

The Pope Returns to Castel Gandolfo for Summer. And There Will Be Tennis.

✇NYT
Par :Elisabetta Povoledo
↗️
For 400 years, most popes escaped the Roman summer in the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo, Italy. Then Francis stopped going, leaving the town a bit bereft.

© Alessandro Penso for The New York Times

Tourists posing for photos in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, in June. The pope’s planned return has “given the town a spark,” said an owner of a bar in the town’s main square.
  •  
  • ↗️

What’s Next in the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Trial?

✇NYT
Par :Julia Jacobs and Ben Sisario
↗️
The music mogul remains in custody after he was convicted on two counts of transporting prostitutes. A judge will determine his prison sentence at an unspecified date.

© Richard Shotwell/Invision, via Associated Press

Though Sean Combs and his lawyers were jubilant after he was acquitted of the most serious charges he faced, he still awaits sentencing for two felony convictions.
  •  
  • ↗️

Sean Combs’s Winning Defense: He’s Abusive, but He’s Not a Racketeer

✇NYT
Par :Julia Jacobs and Ben Sisario
↗️
In defusing much of the government’s case, lawyers for the music mogul did not dispute that he did bad things. They disputed that they matched the crimes he was charged with.

© Jefferson Siegel for The New York Times

The defense lawyers representing Sean Combs left the courthouse pleased after he was acquitted of the most serious charges in his sex-trafficking case.
  •  
  • ↗️

After Mamdani Mania, the Next Democratic Test Comes to Tucson

✇NYT
Par :Jack Healy
↗️
Adelita Grijalva remains heavily favored to win the House seat of her late father, Raúl Grijalva, but youthful challengers and tired voters are asking why change is so hard for Democrats.

© Cassidy Araiza for The New York Times

Daniel Hernandez, a Democratic congressional candidate, meeting with a supporter, Beatrice Torres, while door-knocking last month in Tucson, Ariz.
  •  
  • ↗️

Democrats Denied This City Had a Gang Problem. The Truth Is Complicated.

✇NYT
Par :Ted Conover
↗️
Trump’s claim that Venezuelan criminals took over Aurora, Colorado, became a rationale for his immigration crackdown. What really happened there?

© Paloma Dooley for The New York Times

The Edge at Lowry apartment complex in Aurora, Colo., where shootings and other crimes attracted national attention in August 2024.
  •  
  • ↗️

Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks: Where to Watch in NYC

✇NYT
Par :Taylor Robinson
↗️
The Macy’s celebration, replete with 80,000 firework shells and 11 new pyrotechnic effects, returns to the East River after heading over to the Hudson in 2024.

© Graham Dickie/The New York Times

Last year, the Macy’s fireworks display returned to the Hudson River for the first time in over 10 years. This year, it’s back on the East River.
  •  
  • ↗️

Can Indonesia Afford Prabowo’s Free School Lunch Program?

✇NYT
Par :Muktita Suhartono
↗️
Indonesia’s president promised free meals for every student in the country. But unemployment is rising, and some analysts say he’s making matters worse.

© Timur Matahari/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Students in Cimahi, Indonesia, having lunches that were provided by the government. President Prabowo Subianto calls the program an investment in Indonesia’s future.
  •  
  • ↗️

Trump Policy Bill Stalls as Johnson Works to Wear Down G.O.P. Resistance

✇NYT
Par :Michael Gold · Robert Jimison and Megan Mineiro
↗️
After a day of paralysis, the House remained frozen in place overnight as party leaders labored to address the concerns of Republican holdouts to the party’s major policy bill.

© Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times

Speaker Mike Johnson can afford only a few Republican defections on President Trump’s signature domestic policy bill.
  •  
  • ↗️

Chechnya’s Strongman Is Visibly Ailing. The Russian Region Is Bracing for Succession.

✇NYT
Par :Nataliya Vasilyeva
↗️
Amid rampant speculation about his health, Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-allied strongman who rules the region, has been noticeably absent from view, while grooming his teenage son for the future.

© Pool photo by Evgenia Novozhenina

Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen strongman, is one of the closest allies of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. Growing speculation about his health has raised the question of who will take the reins when he leaves.
  •  
  • ↗️

Lovebugs Swarm South Korea’s Capital, Drawing Residents’ Ire

✇NYT
Par :John Yoon
↗️
Municipal workers in the South Korean capital region are responding to a summer infestation by spraying water, but residents wish they would break out the poison.

© Yonhap, via Reuters

Binoculars covered in lovebugs at an observatory in Incheon, South Korea, on Monday.
  •  
  • ↗️

Sean Combs Acquitted of Sex Trafficking but Found Guilty on Lesser Charges

✇NYT
Par :Julia Jacobs · Karen Hanley · Melanie Bencosme · Gabriel Blanco and James Surdam
↗️
Sean Combs, the hip-hop mogul who built a business empire around his personal brand, was convicted on Wednesday of transporting prostitutes to participate in his drug-fueled sex marathons, but acquitted of racketeering and sex trafficking, the most serious charges against him. Julia Jacobs, a New York Times culture reporter, explains the verdict.
  •  
  • ↗️

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Acquitted of Sex Trafficking but Found Guilty on Lesser Charges

✇NYT
Par :Ben Sisario and Julia Jacobs
↗️
The music mogul was convicted of arranging for the travel of male escorts across state lines but acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy.

© Paras Griffin/Getty Images

After Sean Combs was acquitted of the most serious charges he faced, he dropped to his knees, apparently in prayer, and started a round of applause.
  •  
  • ↗️

Inside Trump’s Charm Offensive as He Woos Holdout Republicans

✇NYT
Par :Shawn McCreesh and Tyler Pager
↗️
President Trump worked the phones and welcomed Republicans to the White House to cajole them into supporting his megabill. They left with signed merchandise and photos of the Oval Office.

© Kent Nishimura for The New York Times

President Trump can be vindictive, but he also knows how to turn on the charm and make lowly lawmakers feel special.
  •  
  • ↗️

Chicago Suburb Will Buy Pope Leo XIV’s Boyhood Home

✇NYT
Par :Neil Vigdor
↗️
Officials in Dolton, Ill., called the purchase a rare opportunity. But some residents questioned whether the village, grappling with a deficit and potholes, could afford it.

© Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times

The Chicago suburb where Pope Leo XIV grew up voted on Tuesday to buy his boyhood home.
  •  
  • ↗️

Abrego Garcia Was Beaten and Tortured in El Salvador Prison, Lawyers Say

✇NYT
Par :Alan Feuer
↗️
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was made to kneel overnight, denied bathroom access and confined in an overcrowded cell with bright lights and no windows, his lawyers say.

© Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

A poster showing Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia during a news conference with his wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, outside the U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Md., in April.
  •  
  • ↗️

Pentagon Again Shifts Assessment of Damage to Iran’s Nuclear Program

✇NYT
Par :Helene Cooper
↗️
The appraisal that Iran’s nuclear hopes had been set back 1 to 2 years by U.S. and Israeli bombings was the latest in a shifting series of pronouncements.

© Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times

A billboard showing a variety of missiles in Tehran last year. The Pentagon’s chief spokesman said on Thursday that Iran’s nuclear program had likely been degraded by one to two years by U.S. and Israeli bombing.
  •  
  • ↗️