Supreme Court says Trump is partly shielded from prosecution
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that former President Donald Trump is entitled to substantial immunity from prosecution on charges of trying to overturn the last election, a blockbuster decision in the heat of the 2024 campaign that vastly expanded presidential power.
Trump moves to overturn Manhattan conviction, citing immunity decision
Donald Trump began an effort Monday to throw out his recent criminal conviction in New York City and postpone his upcoming sentencing, citing a new Supreme Court ruling that granted him broad immunity from prosecution for official actions he took as president, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
What the mood is like in France after the far right won big
PARIS — For many, France feels like a very different place on Monday.
Trump amplifies calls to jail top elected officials, invokes military tribunals
Former President Donald Trump over the weekend escalated his vows to prosecute his political opponents, circulating posts on his social media website invoking “televised military tribunals” and calling for the jailing of President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Sens. Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer, and former Vice President Mike Pence, among other high-profile politicians.
Boeing agrees to buy Spirit AeroSystems, a longtime supplier
Boeing said Monday that it had agreed to buy a major supplier, Spirit AeroSystems, ending a nearly two-decade experiment in outsourcing production of major components of its commercial planes, including the body of the 737 Max and parts of the 767, 777 and 787.
The world of luxury fruit: Does a $156 melon taste sweeter?
A$396 pineapple comes tucked into an ornate red box that unfurls like origami and is punched with breathing holes. A $156 melon, swaddled in foam netting, grew alone on a vine from which every other fruit was pruned, with the aim of making it extra sweet.
Scientists in Japan give robots a fleshy face and a smile
Engineers in Japan are trying to get robots to imitate that particularly human expression — the smile.
French far right wins big in first round of voting, polls suggest
PARIS (NYT) — The National Rally party on Sunday won a crushing victory in the first round of voting for the French National Assembly, according to early projections, bringing its long-taboo brand of nationalist and anti-immigrant politics to the threshold of power for the first time.
‘Extremely dangerous’ Hurricane Beryl grows to a Category 4
Beryl developed into a record-breaking Category 4 hurricane Sunday — the earliest in a season that a storm has reached such strength — as forecasters warned it would continue to rapidly intensify while moving west toward the Caribbean Sea.
At least 18 people killed in multiple suicide bombings in Nigeria
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — At least 18 people were killed and dozens of others were injured in a series of suicide bombings, all carried out by women, Saturday afternoon in northeastern Nigeria. They included one explosion that went off at the wedding of a young couple and another at a funeral, according to local officials.
U.S. said to seek Boeing guilty plea to avoid trial in 737 Max crashes
The Justice Department plans to allow Boeing to avoid a criminal trial if it agrees to plead guilty to a fraud charge stemming from two fatal crashes of its 737 Max more than five years ago, according to two lawyers for families of the crash victims.
To woo Trump, VP contenders show off their rich friends
During his 2016 campaign, Donald Trump orchestrated a takeover of the Republican Party in part by blasting wealthy political donors as the root of corruption and delivering a populist message that appealed to working-class voters.
Beryl, now a hurricane, to bring ‘life-threatening winds,’ officials warn
Tropical Storm Beryl officially became Hurricane Beryl on Saturday afternoon, an unusual early-season storm that strengthened since its formation late Friday night and that forecasters warned could rapidly intensify.
Nation and world news — at a glance — for Sunday, June 30
Memo reveals Trump’s plan to slash size of GOP platform
A string of Supreme Court decisions hits hard at environmental rules
A spate of decisions over the past two years by the Supreme Court has significantly impaired the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to limit pollution in the air and water, regulate the use of toxic chemicals and reduce the greenhouse gases that are heating the planet.
Major Democratic donors ask themselves: What to do about Biden?
WASHINGTON — The Democratic Party’s perennially nervous donor class descended into deep unease Friday as some of the wealthiest people in America commiserated over President Joe Biden’s weak debate performance and puzzled over what, if anything, they could do to change the course of the race.
How science went to the dogs (and cats)
Every dog has its day, and July 14, 2004, belonged to a boxer named Tasha. On that date, the National Institutes of Health announced that the barrel-chested, generously jowled canine had become the first dog to have her complete genome sequenced. “And everything has kind of exploded since then,” said Elaine Ostrander, a canine genomics expert at the National Human Genome Research Institute and who was part of the research team.
Biden administration denies mining and drilling access to Alaskan wilderness
The Biden administration denied permission on Friday for an Alaska agency to build a 211-mile industrial road that would have cut through Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve to reach copper and zinc deposits beneath untouched wilderness.
Schools police chief indicted in Uvalde shooting response
Pete Arredondo, the former chief of the school district police in Uvalde, Texas, was indicted over his actions during the police response to the 2022 school shooting, the Uvalde County sheriff said, marking the first set of criminal charges to stem from the massacre that killed 19 children and two teachers.
The vanishing islands that failed to vanish
DHIGULAABADHOO, Maldives — On a wisp of land in the Indian Ocean, two hops by plane and one bumpy speedboat ride from the nearest continent, the sublime blue waves lapping at the bone-white sand are just about all that breaks the stillness of a hot, windless afternoon.
