In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court upheld state laws that count mail ballots arriving after Election Day as long as they are postmarked on time. Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote the majority opinion and crossed over to join the court’s Democratic appointees. Trump called it a tremendous loss.
Days after a fragile US-Iran ceasefire, the two sides traded strikes over the weekend and are now openly contradicting each other about whether they are even talking. Trump says a meeting is happening in Qatar. Iran says there is no such meeting planned. The gap is the danger.
Pakistan says it killed 29 militants in calibrated strikes along the Afghan border after a deadly attack in Karachi. Afghanistan’s Taliban government says 36 civilians, including women and children, died in the same strikes. Two nuclear-armed neighbors are pointing at very different body counts.
A sprawling heat dome is settling over the eastern two-thirds of the country this week, pushing heat index values toward 115 degrees and threatening hundreds of record-warm nights from Chicago to Washington just as the holiday weekend arrives.
Toy Story 5 opened to $160 million domestically, the biggest launch of the year and a franchise record. A Taylor Swift song that hit No. 1 before release helped power it. Thirty years after the original, the toys are still box office royalty.
Taktile raised $110 million led by Goldman Sachs to automate the decisions banks make on loans, fraud and onboarding. Assort Health raised $120 million for AI agents running the patient journey. The money is flowing to AI that decides, not just AI that chats.