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Wildfires fueled by extreme heat and dry conditions continued to spread across the West as firefighters raced to protect homes and critical infrastructure.

Meanwhile, a wave of deadly shootings over the holiday weekend renewed concerns about gun violence, while a breakthrough for electric flying taxis signaled that the future of urban transportation may be arriving sooner than expected.

We'll also cover the latest developments from Washington, global affairs, business, technology, sports, and culture.

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Russia launched waves of missiles and drones at Kyiv early Monday, killing at least 11 and marking the second major strike on the Ukrainian capital in a week. Ukrainian air-defense crews reported multiple intercepts but said the volume overwhelmed the perimeter around several residential districts.

Rescue teams worked through the morning at collapsed apartment sites while power crews chased rolling outages across the left bank of the Dnipro. Kyiv's mayor said the fatality count could climb as basements are cleared, and Trump reportedly spoke separately with Putin and Zelenskyy as Ukraine hit Russian targets in retaliation.

Thunderstorms with high winds are expected to make containment harder on a massive wildfire tearing through southern Colorado, where firefighters were among those killed over the weekend. Fire agencies have pulled in mutual-aid teams from four neighboring states as evacuation orders expand toward the Wet Mountains.

Governor Polis declared a state of emergency Saturday, freeing federal FEMA cost-sharing for the fire response. Federal Type 1 incident-management teams took over the fire late Sunday, and the National Interagency Fire Center flagged the burn as one of the year's ten most complex.

China's navy test-launched a long-range ballistic missile from a nuclear-powered submarine in the South Pacific, US and Australian officials confirmed Monday. Launch is one of the furthest-flung Chinese sub-launched tests on record and appears designed to demonstrate reach well beyond the second island chain.

Canberra called the test "provocative and destabilizing" and said no advance notice had been issued through the standard maritime channels. Pentagon officials said trajectory data is still being analyzed and did not confirm whether the missile carried any live payload, though independent satellite trackers have pieced together the likely impact zone.

France's National Rally leader awaits an appeal verdict that will determine whether she can even stand in the 2027 presidential race despite leading opinion polls. The ruling is expected to reshape the field either way, with Jordan Bardella already positioned as her backup.

Australia and Fiji signed a new bilateral defense alliance in a second major diplomatic win this year for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese against Chinese influence in the South Pacific. Deal includes joint patrols, intelligence sharing, and a permanent Australian training presence at Blackrock Camp.

Bangladesh is openly courting Beijing while its relations with Delhi — which turned frosty under Dhaka's interim government — are quietly on the mend. Dual-track diplomacy is being read as a hedge ahead of national elections, and both capitals are watching the trade-and-investment side closely.

President Trump heads to Ankara for the annual NATO summit with the goal of enforcing the higher defense-spending pledges he pushed allies into last year. Several member states remain below the new target, and Turkey's hosting role adds its own set of side agendas.

Police say a shooting at a Fourth of July cookout near Coney Island left eight people wounded, including four children. NYPD is treating the incident as a targeted attack tied to a dispute unrelated to the beach crowd nearby.

Memphis police say National Guard troops fired their weapons in the early morning hours of July 5, killing a man armed with a handgun. State investigators from Tennessee will handle the case rather than local homicide detectives.

A Delta Air Lines flight was reportedly hit by a firework above Chicago as the city celebrated the Fourth of July, with 52 passengers and six crew onboard. Nobody was injured, and the plane landed safely at O'Hare while investigators traced the fireworks' likely launch point.

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Iran may face challenges clearing oil inventories even after Hormuz restrictions have been lifted, with supplies elsewhere and China becoming less enthusiastic. Discount to Brent has widened again, and Chinese teapot refineries have reportedly pulled back on new Iranian cargoes.

EasyJet shares surged Monday after the carrier agreed in principle to a takeover bid from Castlelake, the US private-investment firm. The board endorsed the offer subject to due diligence, though regulators in both the UK and EU are expected to scrutinize the airline's fleet and slot assets.

US Treasury yields edged lower to start the week as investors look ahead to economic data and the FOMC meeting minutes due later in the week. NATO summit in Turkey has added a geopolitical layer to the usual first-week-of-quarter positioning.

Manufacturers of small electric aircraft now closing in on regulatory certification are moving flying-taxi programs out of the concept-video phase and into serious FAA and EASA review. The certification cycle will likely determine which of the six leading platforms actually flies commercially first.

Nvidia's reported delay to its Kyber rack system adds to concerns that the company's breakneck annual release cadence is colliding with manufacturing limits in Taiwan. Rubin-chip supply is now expected to slip a quarter, and hyperscaler order books are being reworked.

India ordered Meta to remove paid ads promoting child sexual abuse material on Instagram, days after a BBC investigation showed the platform surfacing such ads to users. The order gives Meta 72 hours to comply and open its ad-approval systems to an external audit.

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England ended Mexico's World Cup with what their manager called the best win on foreign soil in the program's history, grinding out a last-16 victory at the Azteca. Bellingham's second-half penalty settled the match after a red card had reshaped the flow.

Erling Haaland's stunning brace propelled Norway into the quarterfinals with a shock win over Brazil. Norway had not made it this far in a men's World Cup in the modern era, and both goals came inside the box on chances Brazil's defense should have cleared.

Miami pulled Eury Pérez after seven perfect innings before the Marlins nearly blew the resulting lead against the Diamondbacks. Manager cited a strict return-from-injury pitch count, and the bullpen made things briefly interesting in the ninth.

Tom Holland thought Christopher Nolan hated his Odyssey performance on his first day of filming, only for the director to circle back with a very different read. Holland's account, part of a longer press cycle, has become the story most quoted from a wide-ranging cover interview.

Buckingham Palace said Prince Harry will not stay at the palace during his upcoming UK visit, walking back an earlier statement from the prince's spokesperson that he had formally accepted the invitation. Reversal has become a small crisis for the royal communications team and reopened public-facing questions about the family split.

Wedding guests spent Sunday posting about the "beautiful night" — and, in a few cases, the "world's greatest hangover" — that followed Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's Friday ceremony. Social-media posts have started to piece together a guest list and running order that the couple has otherwise kept private.

What it is: President Trump heads to Ankara this week for the annual NATO summit with a single-issue agenda — force allies to live up to the 3.5%-of-GDP defense-spending pledge locked in last year. NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has spent two years working to keep the US anchored to the alliance, in a strategy that has leaned heavily on personal-diplomatic flattery.

The detail: Last year's summit lifted the target from 2% to 3.5% by 2035. Several members remain below the older 2% floor entirely, and only nine of thirty-two allies have hard timelines that clear the new one. Rutte's approach — private one-on-ones, effusive public praise, Oval Office visits — has drawn quiet criticism from European foreign ministers who describe it as "embarrassing but effective." Turkey's role as host adds its own set of side agendas, with Erdogan expected to press for F-35 reinstatement.

Why it matters: Article 5 credibility rests on continued US forward deployment in Europe, and Trump has publicly floated pulling troops from the eastern flank if allies underspend. Ukraine's war economy depends on the European rearmament that NATO's new spending target is meant to accelerate, and any communique that walks back timelines will be read in Kyiv as a signal about what Western support is worth over the next 18 months.

What to watch: Watch whether the joint communique carries any hard enforcement mechanism — a benchmark-linked review, a public compliance ledger, or timeline consequences — or whether it lands as another aspirational pledge. Watch which members announce fresh commitments during side meetings, and whether Turkey extracts a public F-35 concession as part of the price for hosting.

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