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The month's top story

Opinion | Scenes From an Ordination

Plans include an air show in Texas, 18,500 fireworks in Idaho and a frog-jumping contest in Missouri.

NYT · 5 sources

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What dominated July

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Top Stories

    How the Epstein Files Paralyzed the Trump White House

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Top Stories

    Opinion | Zohran Mamdani, Slumlord

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Top Stories

    The Reflecting Pool Appears to Be Rejecting Its Makeover

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

Top Stories 729 stories

  1. Opinion | Girl Dads Take On Maine

    CBS · 5 outlets

    This week, the Supreme Court upheld state bans on transgender athletes in girls' and women's sports. CBS News legal contributor Jessica Levinson answers some constitutional questions about the case.

  2. Trump defends beautification push in D.C.

    ABC · 4 outlets

  3. How Trump's Iran goals have changed

    CBS · 4 outlets

  4. Opinion | California’s Election Logic

    FOX · 5 outlets

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  1. Opinion | Zohran Mamdani, Slumlord

    NYT · 5 outlets

  2. Ruth Shack, Early Champion of Gay Rights in Miami, Dies at 94

    NYT · 5 outlets

  3. How Trump Wants to Upend Voting in America

    CBS · 4 outlets

  4. Maine Senate Race Heats Up as Trump Attacks Platner

    NYT · 4 outlets

  5. The Reflecting Pool Appears to Be Rejecting Its Makeover

    FOX · 5 outlets

  6. Alan Jackson gives emotional farewell concert

    CBS · 5 outlets

  7. Why democratic socialists are racking up primary wins

    NYT · 4 outlets

  8. 55% of Americans support birthright citizenship.

    NYT · 3 outlets

Business 337 stories

  1. Oil Slump Deepens While Tech Stocks Struggle

    WSJ · 4 outlets

    Cracks are appearing in the artificial-intelligence trade, whiplashing tech-heavy indexes as doubts about the profitability and sustainability of the AI build-out creep in.

  2. Dow Gets a Healthy Boost

    CNBC · 4 outlets

  3. Stocks Rise, Dollar Weakens; U.S. Markets Closed

    WSJ · 3 outlets

  4. Health Care Roundup: Market Talk

    WSJ · 1 outlets

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  1. Apple shares slide after big Siri AI reveal

    CNBC · 3 outlets

  2. Shares in AOL Owner Jump 40% in Stock-Market Debut

    CNBC · 3 outlets

  3. GE Vernova's gas turbines aren't the only way it's winning from the AI boom

    CNBC · 3 outlets

  4. Trump Accounts for kids launch July 4: What parents need to know

    MKTW · 2 outlets

  5. Weak Jobs Report Prompts Wall Street to Change Strategy

    MKTW · 3 outlets

  6. U.S. Natural Gas Futures Advance on Weather Outlook

    CNBC · 3 outlets

  7. Oil Falls on Signs of Strait of Hormuz’s Reopening

    CNBC · 3 outlets

  8. JPMorgan’s $4 Million ‘Salami Incident’ Is Fueling a Backlash From Banks

    CNBC · 2 outlets

  9. Apple Reveals Plans to Raise Prices

    WSJ · 3 outlets

  10. Tech Stocks Waver Ahead of SpaceX’s IPO

    WSJ · 3 outlets

Sports 478 stories

  1. An Ode To Lionel Messi And Embracing His Last Dance

    FOX · 3 outlets

  2. Here's what you missed over the weekend

    CBS · 3 outlets

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  1. Stacey King, three-time NBA champion with the Chicago Bulls, dies at 59

    PFT · 3 outlets

  2. UFL announces six players with NFL tryouts

    CBS · 3 outlets

  3. Cristiano Ronaldo Mocked With 'Messi' Chants After Frustrating World Cup Draw

    FOX · 1 outlets

  4. Meet Vozinha, The Cape Verde Goalkeeper Who Shut Out Spain

    FOX · 1 outlets

  5. Neymar Ruled Out Of Brazil's Second World Cup Match Due To Calf Injury

    FOX · 2 outlets

  6. Attorney: Blaise Taylor will appeal murder verdict

    PFT · 1 outlets

Technology 341 stories

  1. Claude Fable 5 isn’t permanently leaving subscriptions, Anthropic says

    9to5 · 3 outlets

    <div class="feat-image"><img src="https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/07/joe-prosser.jpg?quality=82&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1600" /></div><p class="wp-block-paragraph">After getting a s…

  2. How to watch Uzbekistan vs Colombia: Free Streams & TV Channels for FIFA World Cup 2026

    TechRadar · 1 outlets

  3. Quordle hints and answers for Friday, July 3 (game #1621)

    TechRadar · 1 outlets

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  1. Webinar: Why email security teams are drowning in alerts

    TechRadar · 2 outlets

  2. Apple releases first iOS 27 beta 1

    TechRadar · 3 outlets

  3. Samsung is plotting to replace your M.2 SSD with a storage chip smaller than a fingernail to improve battery life and supercharge ondevice AI inference

    TechRadar · 1 outlets

  4. How to download the macOS 27 Golden Gate developer beta

    9to5 · 2 outlets

  5. tvOS 27 beta 1 available now for Apple TV 4K

    9to5 · 3 outlets

  6. A dedicated Apple Watch communication app is missing in watchOS 27

    9to5 · 2 outlets

  7. What is the release date for Sugar season 2 on Apple TV?

    TechRadar · 2 outlets

  8. LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach

    TechRadar · 3 outlets

  9. CISA: Splunk Enterprise flaw actively exploited, patch by Sunday

    Bleeping · 1 outlets

Entertainment 447 stories

  1. 'Godfather' Actor Anthony Guidera Dead at 65 After Weeks on Life Support

    BuzzFeed · 2 outlets

  2. Jack White's Shocking Divorce and More Us Weekly Top Stories

    USMag · 2 outlets

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  1. Taylor Frankie Paul Says She's 'Emotionally Numb' Amid Dakota Legal Drama

    USMag · 1 outlets

  2. What Jesse Ridgway and Ashley Have Said About Abortion Backlash

    USMag · 1 outlets

  3. Lena the Plug Insists Adam22 Marriage Is 'Wonderful' After Divorce Drama

    USMag · 1 outlets

  4. ANTM's Jeana Turner Slams Tyra Banks for 'Money-Hungry' Lawsuit

    USMag · 2 outlets

  5. Joshua Jackson Pens Katie Holmes ‘Appreciation Post’ Ahead of New Movie

    BuzzFeed · 2 outlets

  6. Most Shocking Soap Star Deaths of All Time: Paul Avery and More

    USMag · 1 outlets

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