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1. How Trump's EPA head has transformed the agency — and sided with polluters

   New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert says EPA chief Lee Zeldin has rescinded regulations, cut or eliminated departments and terminated the jobs of many scientists. Trump calls Zeldin "our secret weapon."

2. '8647' got James Comey indicted. What exactly does it mean?

   A grand jury charged Comey with threatening Trump's life through his since-deleted 2025 post of seashells forming "8647." Trump is the 47th president, and the term "86" has a few possible meanings.

3. UAE OPEC

   The UAE says it will leave OPEC, amid tensions with Saudi Arabia and the chaos of the Iran war.

4. Supreme Court calls Louisiana's House map an 'unconstitutional racial gerrymander'

   Although the court kept Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act intact, Wednesday's decision all but guts the landmark law that came out of the Civil Rights Movement and protected the collective voting power of racial minorities when political maps are redrawn.

5. As Supreme Court weighs Trump's immigration policy, senior citizens join the fight

   As the Supreme Court weighs the Trump administration's termination of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians, seniors are advocating for protections for their immigrant caregivers.

6. Greetings from Syria, where a postwar olive harvest offers a long-lost taste of home

   In the warm sun, gathering handfuls of hard olives promised a taste of home that residents of a village in the Homs countryside had been missing for nearly 14 years of civil war.

7. The Trump team is quietly eliminating U.S. support for birth control abroad

   Congress has allocated more than $500 million for family planning work internationally. The Trump administration hasn't spent it — and the consequences are already being felt.

8. Welcome to 'Anxietyland' theme park, where the rides are no fun

   From the Emotional Roller Coaster to the Worry-go-round, cartoonist Gemma Correll walks us through her brain's not-so-amusing amusement park in a darkly funny memoir.

9. Families sue OpenAI over Canadian mass shooter's use of ChatGPT

   The lawsuits claim OpenAI was negligent for failing to report the shooter to authorities after her account was flagged for "gun violence activity and planning."

10. Baby teeth hold clues to the harms of toxic metals for infants — and older kids

    By analyzing layers in these teeth, scientists have pinpointed a critical window when baby brains are most vulnerable to toxic metals — and linked that to behavior problems later in life.