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Becky Pepper-Jackson Loses, and a Constitutional Category Hardens
By upholding West Virginia and Idaho, the Court did more than settle two lawsuits. It reconstituted biological sex as a permissible line in American sports law.
Tariffs Rewire the Price Machine, and the Fed Loses Its Escape Hatch
Fresh research attributes almost all of the excess in core-goods inflation to tariffs, arriving as the labor market softens and forcing the Federal Reserve into a corner it cannot easily leave.
Trump Lets USMCA Drift Into a Decade of Doubt
Washington let the July 1 review deadline pass without renewing the USMCA, converting one of the last fixed points in North American commerce into a standing question reopened every year.
Tesla's Record Quarter Buys No Reprieve as Shares Sink 7.5%
Tesla shattered delivery forecasts with 480,126 vehicles in the second quarter, yet investors sold the stock down roughly 7.5%, signaling that volume no longer settles the questions the market is asking about profitability.
Apple Rallies as Foldable Roadmap Revives Its Growth Story
Reports of a five-model iPhone roadmap and a $2,500 foldable pushed Apple shares up more than 12 percent, restoring a hardware growth narrative Wall Street had all but written off.
Nasal DNA Vaccine From Johns Hopkins Aims at the Tuberculosis Survivors Antibiotics Miss
A therapeutic intranasal DNA vaccine developed at Johns Hopkins fuses two genes to hunt the drug-tolerant TB bacteria that survive antibiotics and drive relapse, clearing infections faster in animal studies.
apoB Rises as the Cholesterol Metric Clinicians May Soon Treat Toward
A little-used blood test that counts harmful cholesterol particles could redraw how doctors decide who needs stronger heart therapy, according to research reported by NBC News.
First ACA Enrollment Retreat Since 2017 Erases Millions of Sign-Ups
ACA marketplace enrollment slid roughly 3 million to 19.2 million by February 2026 after enhanced premium subsidies lapsed, with experts and the Trump administration split over the cause.
Tedros Closes the Book on the MV Hondius Hantavirus Cluster
The World Health Organization declared the Andes virus cluster tied to the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius over on July 2, closing a 13-case episode that reached contacts in 33 countries and territories.
1,561 Ebola Cases Confirmed in DR Congo as Bundibugyo Strain Outpaces the Response
Confirmed Bundibugyo Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have climbed past 1,500 with more than 500 deaths, WHO and CDC figures show, as a new WHO-sponsored treatment trial opens against a strain that has no licensed vaccine or therapy.
Uganda's Second Filovirus Emergency Exposes the Machinery Straining Africa's Outbreak Defenses
A confirmed Marburg case in western Uganda stacks a second filovirus onto an active Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak, revealing how one detection system now carries two lethal threats at once.
Vertex Gene Therapy Reaches Toddlers as FDA Lowers Casgevy Age Floor to Two
Federal regulators lowered the age floor for Vertex's one-time gene-editing therapy from 12 to 2, making Casgevy the first genetic medicine indicated for young children with two inherited blood disorders.