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Also in today's Digest: LeBron James' free agency (Sports, Ent., & Cult.), lab-grown cells that could protect eyesight (Sci. & Tech.), a prison term for a billionaire with a long list of aliases (Bus. & Mkts.), a 52-year-old pot of soup (Etc.), and much more.
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Need To Know
SCOTUS Term Wraps
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 yesterday to strike down President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship. The order would have withheld citizenship from babies born to undocumented immigrants and foreign visitors (9% of births in 2023, or 260,000 babies).
Most justices cited the 14th Amendment in their decision, saying it guarantees citizenship to “every free-born person in this land.” Dissenting justices pointed to language in the Constitution finding the person must be “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States to gain citizenship; they suggested foreign citizens do not qualify. Read the 194-page ruling.
On the final day of the term, justices also upheld state laws restricting transgender athletes’ participation in female sports (see list of states or scroll for map). They also struck down a 50-year-old law restricting political parties’ campaign contributions. In the near term, the ruling favors the Republican Party, which has a cash advantage of tens of millions of dollars over Democrats.
GLP-1 Medicare Pilot
Medicare launched a pilot program today that expands access to GLP-1 drugs for people managing obesity and prediabetes.
Roughly 3.8 million Medicare beneficiaries who have paid about $350 a month for medications such as Zepbound, Foundayo, and Wegovy are now eligible for a $50 copay. The program, which runs through 2027, operates under special research authority to test a federal law barring Medicare from covering drugs prescribed solely for weight loss. Congress enacted the ban in 2003, citing safety concerns with earlier medications and potentially high program costs. GLP-1s emerged as a new class of weight loss drugs in 2014, and officials estimate the pilot will cost the federal government $2.5B to $4.4B annually.
The US adult obesity rate has nearly tripled since the 1960s to roughly 40%, increasing the risk of heart disease, diabetes, and other chronic conditions (see chart). Clinical trials show GLP-1s can help patients lose an average of 15% to 20% of their body weight over approximately 15 to 17 months. Watch how.
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Egg Price Crackdown
Three of the nation's largest egg producers agreed yesterday to settle allegations that they artificially inflated egg prices during bird flu outbreaks between 2022 and 2025.
The companies—Cal-Maine Foods, Versova, and Hickman's Egg Ranch—will pay a combined $3.3M to 17 states, donate 53 million eggs to food banks and nonprofit organizations, and adopt stricter antitrust compliance measures. Investigators allege they manipulated a key pricing benchmark used by egg sellers and buyers, making demand appear stronger and driving up wholesale prices. The companies deny any wrongdoing.
The bird flu outbreak forced farmers to cull roughly 200 million birds, shrinking egg supplies and sending prices above $6 per dozen in early 2025 (see historical chart—and one man's 25 years of egg purchases). The shortages prompted restaurant surcharges, grocery store purchase limits, and even a brief trend of coloring potatoes instead of eggs for Easter. Prices have since fallen to roughly $2 per dozen.
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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Serena Williams, 44, loses first singles match since 2022 US Open, is eliminated from Wimbledon singles (More) | LeBron James, 41, to leave LA Lakers for record-extending 24th season, is reportedly being pursued by Golden State Warriors (More)
> Blake Lively seeks $8M in legal fees from "It Ends With Us" costar Justin Baldoni after settling harassment and defamation suit earlier this year (More) | Director Carl Rinsch sentenced to 30 months in prison for defrauding Netflix of $11M (More)
> Erling Haaland scores winner as Norway beats Ivory Coast 2-1 (More) | England plays Democratic Republic of Congo at Noon ET, Belgium and Senegal meet at 4 pm ET, and USA faces Bosnia-Herzegovina at 8 pm ET (More, w/schedule)
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Science & Technology
> Tesla begins testing steering wheel- and pedal-free Cybercab in Austin, Texas, (More) | See mock-ups (More) | Electric vehicle battery lifespans could potentially be doubled by applying physical pressure, without changes to battery chemistry (More)
> National Institutes of Health debuts world's largest database linking human genomes to clinical data to inspire discoveries in precision medicine; over 747,000 people across the US have contributed (More) | What's precision medicine? (More)
> Lab-grown retinal cells shown to help protect eyesight in mice, pointing toward new preventative and early-stage vision loss treatments (More) | Explore a 3D eye model (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close up (S&P 500 +0.8%, Dow +0.3%, Nasdaq +1.5%); S&P 500, Nasdaq post best quarter since 2020 (More) | US job openings rise to two-year high (More)
> Magnificent 7 group of megatech stocks sheds roughly $2.3T in value in June as investors pull away from companies spending hundreds of billions of dollars on AI infrastructure (More) | What are the Magnificent 7? (More, w/visuals)
> Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui sentenced to 30 years in US prison after $1B fraud scheme conviction (More) | Guo, who relied on numerous aliases, used investor funds for purchases, including $37M yacht and $3.5M Ferrari (More, w/photos)
Politics & World Affairs
> Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R, NJ-7) shares depression diagnosis to explain four-month absence from Congress, including during his primary win (More) | S****ee interactive map of competitive House races (More) | First-ever GOP midterm convention to be held Sept. 9-10 in Dallas, Texas (More)
> Breakaway Catholic group is due to consecrate bishops today without the Vatican's consent, paving the way for possible excommunication (More) | What is the Society of St. Pius X, which boasts half a million adherents? (More)
> Search is underway in Monaco after an explosion at an apartment building in the country wounds Ukrainian-born businessman Vadym Yermolaiev and two others; police are investigating the attack as an attempted murder (More)
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Etcetera
The family guarding a 52-year-old pot of soup.
Fossil in a drawer turns out to be dinosaur from Antarctica.
The shortest-lived colony in the US was New Sweden.
Baseball, jeans, and apple pie: Are they really American? (via YouTube)
Revisit the story of Teddy Roosevelt's bullet-stopping glasses case.
See Lego's new collaboration with Olivia Rodrigo.
Why are Swiss yodelers singing in fountains?
Dozens of remote workers take over a San Diego beach.
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Historybook: Civil War Battle of Gettysburg begins (1863); Canada becomes a country (1867); Abolitionist and author Harriet Beecher Stowe dies (1896); Princess Diana born (1961); China regains sovereignty over Hong Kong (1997).
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