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1. The Iran war now has a price tag ($25 billion), but still no end date

   The Pentagon estimates the war has cost $25 billion over the past two months. In congressional testimony, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not say when the war might end.

2. Florida lawmakers pass a voting map that could help Republicans flip four House seats

   The map drawn by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis boosts President Trump's effort to reshape voting before the midterm elections. The GOP likely holds a slight edge over Democrats in redistricting now.

3. In court, Elon Musk accuses OpenAI of trying to 'have your cake and eat it, too'

   In his second day on the stand in the trial he launched against OpenAI, Elon Musk said the AI start-up he'd helped found had strayed from its charitable mission.

4. How Trump's EPA head has transformed the agency — and sided with polluters

   New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert says EPA chief Lee Zeldin has rescinded regulations, cut or eliminated departments and terminated the jobs of many scientists. Trump calls Zeldin "our secret weapon."

5. '8647' got James Comey indicted. What exactly does it mean?

   A grand jury charged Comey with threatening Trump's life through his since-deleted 2025 post of seashells forming "8647." Trump is the 47th president, and the term "86" has a few possible meanings.

6. United Arab Emirates announces it's leaving OPEC

   The UAE says it will leave OPEC, amid tensions with Saudi Arabia and the chaos of the Iran war.

7. Supreme Court calls Louisiana's House map an 'unconstitutional racial gerrymander'

   The court kept Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act intact, but the decision all but guts a landmark law that came out of the Civil Rights Movement and protected the collective voting power of racial minorities when political maps are redrawn.

8. As Supreme Court weighs Trump's immigration policy, senior citizens join the fight

   As the Supreme Court weighs the Trump administration's termination of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians, seniors are advocating for protections for their immigrant caregivers.

9. Greetings from Syria, where a postwar olive harvest offers a long-lost taste of home

   In the warm sun, gathering handfuls of hard olives promised a taste of home that residents of a village in the Homs countryside had been missing for nearly 14 years of civil war.

10. The Trump team is quietly eliminating U.S. support for birth control abroad

    Congress has allocated more than $500 million for family planning work internationally. The Trump administration hasn't spent it — and the consequences are already being felt.