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The rockets that lifted the first satellites and the first astronauts into space were not designed for exploration.

Senator Lindsey Graham died the night after brokering a White House deal to revive his long-stalled bill imposing a 500 percent tariff on countries that keep buying Russian oil, gas, and uranium; this explains what the bill does, why it stalled for more than a year, and what losing its lead sponsor means for its chances.

President Trump refused to sign the bipartisan 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act to protest Senate inaction on the SAVE America Act, so it became law automatically under the Constitution's 10-day rule, without a veto and without his signature.

On July 10, 2026, a Chinese Long March 10B put a satellite in orbit and then flew its first stage back to a net strung across a ship at sea, making China the second country after the United States to recover an orbital-class booster, though reflying the stage, the real proof of reusability, is still to come.

A U.S. aid worker in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has tested positive for a rare species of Ebola with no approved vaccine or cure, the second American infected as the country's fastest-growing outbreak on record tests a global response that experts warn has been weakened by U.S. funding cuts.

A ranking senator has released whistleblower allegations that the Trump-controlled Kennedy Center rushed renovations and bypassed federal contracting rules to meet deadlines for the president's December events, while the Center and the White House say the work was lawful and long overdue.

Apple's complaint alleges a systematic scheme to poach engineers and extract confidential hardware secrets, claims OpenAI denies and a court has not tested.

A federal judge granted the Justice Department's request to close the landmark Proud Boys prosecution, saying separation of powers gave him no basis to keep a case the executive branch had chosen to abandon.

In his first message since his father's funeral, Iran's unseen new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei vowed to avenge Ali Khamenei's killing, hours after President Trump threatened to "completely decimate" Iran if he is assassinated and Washington demanded Tehran declare the Strait of Hormuz open to all shipping.

The Justice Department is compelling four Times journalists to testify about their Air Force One reporting while, on a separate front, the paper is suing a civil rights agency it says targeted it for its coverage.