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The Supreme Court issued a procedural order on Trump's mail-voting executive action that leaves the underlying Boston injunction in place for now — but signals the justices could revive parts of the order before the midterms. State elections officials warned AP the practical result would be sudden mid-cycle rule changes in the middle of ballot printing.

A Boston federal judge had frozen Trump's order and layered on a second injunction blocking any procedural changes before November. USPS quietly finalized a new mail-ballot rule Friday night that only kicks in if the Supreme Court revives Trump's order, meaning the underlying stakes now sit entirely with the justices' next move.

Cristy Turcios, the wife of active-duty Army Sgt. Hedar Leonel Turcios Juarez, was deported to Honduras under the Trump administration's immigration enforcement push, as reported early Tuesday. Sgt. Turcios Juarez holds a photo of the two of them at their El Paso home in the AP images accompanying the story.

Case is the latest in a growing set of military-family removals under a policy that offers no automatic protection for the undocumented spouses of active-duty US service members. Defense Department officials have said they are "reviewing" service-member exemptions but have not paused any removals in the meantime.

Mexico resumed limited cattle exports to the United States late Monday after a US-imposed pause tied to a New World screwworm outbreak that had shut one of the continent's biggest livestock corridors. AP photographed ranchers unloading calves at pens in Hermosillo ahead of the reopening.

USDA is limiting the reopening to specific inspection points and sanitary protocols, and only a subset of Mexican states qualify. Cattle prices had spiked stateside during the pause; the reopening should ease pressure on US beef supply through the fall.

Indian Coast Guard and Navy searches have found no trace of 22 sailors missing since the MV Ocean Winner went down on Saturday. Aircraft and ships have combed waters roughly 276 miles from the Paradip coast of Odisha, and the Panama-flagged cargo vessel itself remains unlocated.

A tornado tore through the village of Pomas in southern France on Monday, injuring 39 people and damaging roughly 300 homes, according to local authorities. Thousands of homes across the region lost power, and French emergency services were still assessing structural damage into Tuesday morning.

A Peruvian court has convicted four in murder-for-hire, handing down terms of 15 to 35 years for the death of Indigenous rainforest defender Quinto Inuma Alvarado. Monday evening's verdict lands as a rare test of accountability for violence against environmental defenders across the Amazon basin.

The FBI has set a $25,000 minimum reward for information on more than 50 unsolved homicides and missing-person cases in Indian Country. Tribal communities have long faced disproportionate rates of violence, and the new floor applies uniformly across every one of those dozens of open files.

FCC Chair Brendan Carr announced a formal review of the $4 billion E-Rate program that has funded classroom internet since 1996. Advocates warn a rollback would sever high-speed access for tens of thousands of rural US schools that rely on it as their only viable provider.

A new study of former NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021 found at least 25% had CTE at autopsy, the largest cohort estimate yet published. Researchers say the true rate is likely higher because CTE is only diagnosable postmortem.

Bitcoin pushed past $80,000 early Tuesday, last trading up 2.3% near $80,643 as the wider crypto rally gathered pace. More than $4 billion in bearish positions have been liquidated since last week's 20% three-day surge, the biggest such move since 2023.

India's Tata Consultancy Services secured a $1.5 billion contract to deploy AI systems across Porsche's operations. It's one of the largest single AI services contracts signed by a European automaker, and it underscores how much of the enterprise AI buildout is being outsourced to Indian IT giants.

Paramount CEO David Ellison is at the last regulatory obstacle before closing his $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, and can't clear it. California AG Rob Bonta's antitrust suit remains active despite weekend settlement talks; Ellison told analysts he still expects to close.

Australia's music industry will ban AI-generated tracks from its official charts, requiring every eligible release to be "substantially human-made." Pressure had built after an AI-vocal reworking of Madonna's "Like a Prayer" spent 16 weeks in the national top 20 and peaked at number two.

An AI-based analysis of tissue "clocks" found that human organs age on very different timelines, with some patterns detectable from a simple blood draw. The findings could reshape how doctors screen for organ-specific risk rather than relying on chronological age.

Ecologists say large dragonfly swarms rolling across California this month appear tied to unusually warm spring rains, with clusters visible from the Central Valley to Oakland's Lake Merritt. Insect ecologists say the swarms are harmless but useful early indicators of a shifting monsoon signature in Western climate patterns.

Angel Reese grabbed 26 rebounds in Atlanta's 78-71 win over the Los Angeles Sparks, a single-game record in league history. Reese passed the WNBA's single-season rebounding mark in the very same game, explaining afterward that she couldn't hit shots so she went hunting on the glass.

Cal Raleigh hit three homers as Seattle beat Philadelphia 9-2, ending the Phillies' season-best nine-game winning streak. Zack Wheeler allowed a season-high eight runs, and Raleigh became the first Mariners catcher since manager Dan Wilson in 1996 to homer three times.

Ukrainian center Kate Koval is leaving LSU less than two weeks after the Tigers signed a Russian player to the same roster. Coach Kim Mulkey said Monday night that Koval left for personal reasons, following LSU's addition of Anna Minaeva, formerly of MBA Moscow.

Current and former players have united against Gianni Infantino, declaring that "change is necessary" at football's global governing body. Mikael Silvestre, who sits on Fifa's own Players' Voice Panel, issued the statement on Monday, ten years into Infantino's presidency.

Swift closed the Grammy Museum program with a surprise mashup of "All Too Well," "August" and her new "Toy Story 5" song. Fewer than 200 people saw it happen live, and the Recording Academy released the video Monday alongside a 42-minute conversation about her writing.

Pixar and Disney announced a 20th-anniversary theatrical rerelease of "Cars", with a limited domestic run beginning in October. The move continues the studio's push to bring back back-catalog titles as theatrical windows shrink.

Hulu canceled the Kaling comedy after a single nine-episode season that only launched in June. Warner Bros. Television plans to shop the series elsewhere, with Ella Hunt and Jay Ellis among a cast of Manhattan-dwelling workaholics.

What it is: Stanford researcher Brian Hie is using generative AI to design custom viruses that attack drug-resistant bacteria in the lab, part of what NPR described as the arrival of the "era of AI-generated viruses." Bacteriophages — viruses that only infect bacteria — have existed as an obscure therapeutic edge case for a century; what's new is that a model, not evolution, is drawing them up.

The detail: Hie's team feeds the model a target pathogen and asks it to output a viral genome that will bind and kill that specific bacterium. Early work suggests the platform can produce viable phage candidates, and the long-term ambition is to move past bacteria toward AI-designed therapeutic viruses for more complicated diseases. Antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections already kill more than a million people a year globally, and the pipeline for new antibiotics has been thin for decades — which is why the phage angle keeps coming back.

Why it matters: The same tool that writes a phage to kill a superbug can, in principle, write a pathogen designed for something less benign. NPR quoted experts warning that in the wrong hands the technology "could create the next pandemic," and the biosecurity community has been openly arguing about whether foundation models trained on viral genomes should be released at all. That debate has largely been theoretical up to now; a working platform pushes it into the "policy actually has to answer this" column.

What to watch: Watch for the first peer-reviewed publication out of Hie's group — the leap from petri dish to preprint to journal is where the real capability picture will emerge. Watch NIH and White House OSTP for updated biosecurity guidance on generative bio models, and watch whether foundation-model providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind) publish new refusal policies around viral-sequence prompts. And watch which pharmaceutical companies quietly acquire or partner with AI-phage groups — that is how you'll know Big Pharma believes the platform actually works.

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