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Updated July 7, 2026 at 9:02 AM CDT DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Two ships were struck by projectiles Tuesday in the Strait of Hormuz, the British military said, in the latest attacks targeting vessels moving through the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf. One of the ships was a tanker traveling off the coast of Oman that caught fire, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center.

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A new lawsuit filed in Washington, D.C. alleges the Trump administration is divulging details of Iranian asylum seekers to the government of Iran. Lawyers with the left-leaning Public Citizen Litigation Group argue the administration began sharing information about the applications with Iran in March 2025. Since then, U.S. government officials have "periodically mailed or hand delivered immigration files of Iranians" in immigration custody to the Iranian government, according to the complaint.

I regret to inform you I'll need to keep this introduction brief. Not because there's any lack of things to say about July's crop of notable new releases; it features award-winning journalists and several different flavors of anxiety about our bleak ecological future and data-dominated present, as well as the welcome returns of several beloved novelists. No, these books certainly deserve some love, dear readers. It's just that I'm finding it a bit tough to type while bearhugging a box fan.

Two people with ties to a fraught history gathered last week in the nation's capital. What binds them is a Supreme Court case from 1857, when a man named Dred Scott sued for his freedom. Lynne Jackson is Scott's great-great-granddaughter. Charlie Taney is the great-great-grandnephew of former Chief Justice Roger Taney, the man who wrote the infamousDred Scott opinion that helped provoke the Civil War.

It's been over 50 days since the Ebola outbreak was declared in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. Clinicians on the ground are working to save dying patients, but they lack crucial tools to fight the kind of Ebola that's spreading.

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Good morning. You're reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Democratic lawmakers are calling on Graham Platner to withdraw from the U.S. Senate race in Maine, after a former girlfriend said that he sexually assaulted her.

Two people with ties to a fraught history gathered last week in the nation's capital. What binds them is a Supreme Court case from 1857, when a man named Dred Scott sued for his freedom. Lynne Jackson is Scott's great-great-granddaughter. Charlie Taney is the great-great-grandnephew of former Chief Justice Roger Taney, the man who wrote the infamousDred Scott opinion that helped provoke the Civil War.

PHILADELPHIA — Stephanie Santiago's 8-year-old daughter, Kaylanni Brooks, laughed and yelled as she chased a soccer ball on a recent day in a dusty field in Kensington, scrimmaging against boys and girls twice her size. Kensington is one of this city's most hardscrabble neighborhoods, infamous for a street-drug market considered one of the most dangerous in the United States. Santiago, who has lived here her whole life, knows how people see her community.