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President Trump publicly threatened to hit Pickaxe Mountain, a key Iranian nuclear site, ahead of the 11th consecutive night of US strikes. Pentagon confirmed additional B-2 sorties and Tomahawk launches from Gulf-region assets.

Escalation drew immediate condemnation from Tehran, which claims to have hit two ships in the Strait of Hormuz plus targets in Bahrain and Jordan in retaliatory strikes. Congressional Democrats separately demanded a fresh war-powers vote as Defense Secretary Hegseth put the running US price tag at $37.5 billion so far.

Novo Nordisk filed suit against Eli Lilly and asked a US court to permanently stop its rival from running the Mounjaro and Zepbound advertising campaign, in the sharpest litigation to date between the two makers of the biggest drug franchise of the decade. Complaint targets specific claims Lilly makes about weight-loss maintenance and safety.

Case will play out against a US regulatory-review cycle where both companies are pushing supply and pricing wins into the political conversation. Investors sent both stocks lower on the announcement, and industry analysts flagged the dispute as a preview of coming fights over compounded and next-generation GLP-1 products.

A federal judge approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement requiring AI company Anthropic to pay thousands of authors roughly $3,000 per book used to train its Claude chatbot. The ruling ends the class-action brought by author Andrea Bartz and finalizes the biggest AI-copyright resolution to date.

Deal is being treated as a benchmark across the industry, with OpenAI, Meta, and Google all facing parallel author and publisher suits. Authors' guild leaders described the outcome as a floor rather than a ceiling for training-data compensation, and lawyers say new complaints will follow using this settlement as pricing reference.

A tunnel collapse in the Indian Himalayan state of Sikkim has killed at least 12 workers, with several others still trapped inside. Rescue operations are ongoing, and hazardous conditions have hampered efforts to reach the remaining workers overnight.

The European Commission cancelled its funding for the Venice Biennale after organizers cleared Russia to return to the major art show. Brussels had warned for months that Moscow's participation would cost the event European money, and now the culture-and-sanctions collision is real.

Two firefighters died battling a blaze near the parking lots of Bordeaux-Mérignac Airport, believed to have spread from a nearby brush fire. Southern Europe's fire season is arriving early and hard again, straining crews from Portugal to the Balkans.

U.S. immigration agents arrested 43,138 people in June, the highest monthly total on record, as the Trump administration expands enforcement operations across the country. The pace suggests detention capacity and immigration courts will be tested long before the political fight over funding is settled.

Arizona voters chose nominees Tuesday for a set of congressional and gubernatorial races that will be among the fall's most-watched. Results narrow the general-election field in a swing state that both parties are treating as decisive for House control.

New Jersey's motor-vehicle department wrongly registered roughly 6,600 non-citizens to vote, according to the governor, despite each having indicated they were not US citizens. Almost 400 of those registrants actually cast ballots in recent elections.

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Super Micro shares surged 15% after the company disclosed a new order tied to SpaceX and offered rare detail on its margins. The AI server boom keeps lifting picks-and-shovels vendors, even as questions linger about how long the buildout runs.

Capital One posted a decent quarter but left investors waiting for hard numbers on when the Discover and Brex acquisitions will translate into real earnings power. Until then, the stock trades on faith in a merger thesis that still needs proof.

Nike is streamlining its online business in China, cutting thousands of distributors as it seeks to stabilize pricing and get the business back to growth. Move takes direct aim at the gray-market listings that have eroded Nike's brand pricing power on the mainland.

New research suggests individual human neurons can perform computations far more complex than the simple fire-or-don't model textbooks have leaned on for decades. If the findings hold, artificial neural networks may be underestimating what one biological cell actually does.

A study in the European Heart Journal detected microplastics and nanoplastics in the coronary blood of 84% of patients suffering the most severe form of heart attack. Correlation isn't causation, but the plastic-in-arteries data point is getting harder to shrug off.

Scientists say they may have found the first known binary in which both stars went supernova, a configuration long theorized but never observed. The discovery could refine models of how the universe seeds itself with heavy elements.

Stephen Curry will become the first active player honored with his own exhibit at the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame when the display opens Friday. The tribute lands while Curry is still, inconveniently for the Hall's usual timing, playing basketball.

Panthers right tackle Taylor Moton was diagnosed with a blood clot in his lung and will miss the start of the season. First-round pick Monroe Freeling is the likeliest candidate to slot in on the offensive line's right edge.

J.T. Realmuto took the blame for a baserunning mistake that ended a potential Phillies rally in Tuesday night's 2-1 loss to the Dodgers. Loss drops Philadelphia's series against LA to a must-win Wednesday finale.

MLB's Players Association called to preserve the draft system after MLB proposed cutting the draft from 20 to 12 rounds, slashing amateur signing bonuses by more than $150 million, and barring high schoolers from entering. Rejection sets up a labor fight ahead of the 2027 CBA cycle.

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A Sydney court cleared Rebel Wilson of defaming Charlotte MacInnes, the young Australian actress who stars in Wilson's directorial debut The Deb. Wilson said she was "thankful" the bitter case was over; MacInnes's team hasn't indicated whether an appeal is coming.

Sony Music filed a fresh lawsuit against AI music generator Udio, alleging the startup copied more than 30,000 songs from artists including Beyoncé, Harry Styles, and Elvis Presley to train its models. The suit is the latest volley in a two-year fight over whether generative music tools are creativity or industrial-scale karaoke.

Pixar Animation Studios was among the studios hit hardest as Disney announced layoffs of several hundred employees across its studios group Tuesday. Cuts arrive despite Pixar's summer-blockbuster momentum with "Toy Story 5" and touch both feature-development and technology teams.

What it is: AI companies keep making broad claims about human labor being replaced, and the latest labor-market data lets researchers separate the marketing from what is measurably happening. Deep Dive walks through the categories where AI substitution is already showing up in payroll data and the ones where it is not.

The detail: Administrative-support roles, customer-service front-lines, and mid-level analytics have seen measurable declines in postings and starting-salary growth over the last 18 months. Meanwhile, skilled-trades employment has grown, healthcare-provider roles have expanded despite widespread AI-diagnostic pilots, and legal-analyst hiring has actually accelerated as firms deploy AI to expand casework rather than shrink headcount.

A short history: Every prior automation wave — from the ATM to enterprise software — began with employer claims of large near-term job substitution and ended up producing category shifts rather than aggregate losses. AI's speed of adoption is faster than previous cycles, but the composition question looks similar so far.

Why it matters: The labor market's response to AI shapes wage growth, immigration debate, and consumer spending for a decade. Categories being hollowed out now — coding-adjacent junior roles, entry-level marketing, transactional finance — were the on-ramps that produced a lot of middle-class earnings gains in the 2010s.

What to watch: Watch Bureau of Labor Statistics category-level payroll data over the next two quarters for hard confirmation of the trend. Watch entry-level hiring at the largest law and consulting firms, which have both publicly redesigned their junior tracks around AI tooling. And watch community-college enrollment in skilled trades, which is already up sharply and will be the clearest signal of where career switchers are betting.

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