Russia hammered Ukraine with missiles and drones early Monday, killing at least 20 people and exposing Kyiv's critical shortage of US-made Patriot interceptors. Ukraine failed to shoot down any of the 23 ballistic missiles fired, as its air defense stocks run dry ahead of a NATO summit in Turkey where President Trump is due to meet President Zelenskyy for peace talks.
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President Donald Trump travels to Ankara, Turkey, for the annual NATO summit on July 7-8, where he will push allies to boost defense spending and meet Ukraine's President Zelenskyy for peace talks. Turkish President Erdogan is using the summit to project power as a global broker, with Turkey's weapons industry and strategic position giving it new leverage within the alliance.
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The US economy added only 57,000 jobs in June 2026, well below the 115,000 Dow Jones consensus forecast and signaling a sharp deceleration in labor market growth. The Bureau of Labor Statistics also revised down April and May figures by a combined 74,000. The unemployment rate ticked down to 4.2%, while average hourly earnings rose 3.5% year-over-year.
CNBC
OpenAI announced that its general-purpose reasoning model has solved a famous open problem in discrete geometry first posed by mathematician Paul Erdos in 1946. The model disproved a longstanding belief about the planar unit distance problem, discovering a new family of constructions that outperforms the best-known solutions. Fields Medalist Terence Tao verified the proof, marking the first time AI has autonomously solved a major open problem central to a field of mathematics.
OpenAI
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have analyzed the atmosphere of WD 1856b, a Jupiter-sized exoplanet orbiting a white dwarf star 80 light-years away. The gas giant circles its dead star 50 times closer than Earth orbits the Sun, offering a preview of what may happen to Jupiter and Saturn when the Sun dies in about 5 billion years.
Sci.News
England survived a red card, high altitude, and a hostile Estadio Azteca crowd to beat Mexico 3-2 in a World Cup last-16 thriller. Jude Bellingham scored a double and Harry Kane added a penalty as the Three Lions overcame Jarell Quansah's first-half dismissal. The win keeps England's quest for a first major trophy in 60 years alive and hands Mexico their first World Cup loss at the Azteca.
Al Jazeera
New research from Mass General Brigham shows that the BCG tuberculosis vaccine remodels the brain's immune environment and alters Alzheimer's-related biomarkers in older adults without evidence of the disease. The yearlong study found BCG reduced amyloid-beta levels in spinal fluid while increasing them in blood, suggesting the vaccine may help clear Alzheimer's proteins from the central nervous system.
Medical Xpress
A massive heat dome has parked over the central and eastern United States, subjecting more than 200 million Americans to dangerous temperatures and humidity levels. Heat indices are approaching 115°F in major metropolitan corridors from the Midwest to the East Coast. The National Weather Service has issued widespread warnings as the extreme heat is expected to persist into mid-July.
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