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1. Supreme Court appears to lean toward ending TPS for some migrants

   The U.S. Supreme Court appeared sympathetic to the Trump administration's move to end temporary protected status for Haitians and Syrians in the country.
   
   
   
   

2. The Austrian nuns who fled their care home are now in Rome and visited the Vatican

   The three octogenarian nuns, who made headlines last year after they broke back into their convent, joined others at St. Peter's Square for a general audience with Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday morning.

3. House extends a controversial spy tool, but Senate path is unclear ahead of deadline

   The House has approved a three year extension of the surveillance program known as FISA Section 702. The bill now heads to the Senate, where it faces a difficult path to final passage.

4. Long a dream, it's now real: a fast and accurate TB test that doesn't need phlegm

   TB tests use phlegm — not the easiest thing to get or work with. It takes time for results. And there can be false negatives and positives. A new test is more accurate and takes less than half an hour.

5. DOD officials say Iran war has cost $25 billion so far during Congressional grilling

   The Pentagon says that the cost of the war with Iran is estimated to be some $25 billion. Defense officials were appearing on the Hill for budget discussions.

6. The Iran war now has a price tag ($25 billion), but still no end date

   The Pentagon estimates the war has cost $25 billion over the past two months. In congressional testimony, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not say when the war might end.

7. Florida lawmakers pass a voting map that could help Republicans flip 4 House seats

   The map drawn by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis boosts President Trump's effort to reshape voting before the midterm elections. The GOP likely holds a slight edge over Democrats in redistricting now.

8. Elon Musk accuses OpenAI's leaders of 'looting the nonprofit' in court testimony

   In his second day on the stand in the trial he launched against OpenAI, Elon Musk said the AI start-up he'd helped found had strayed from its charitable mission.

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   New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert says EPA chief Lee Zeldin has rescinded regulations, cut or eliminated departments and terminated the jobs of many scientists.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

10. '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.