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There's not usually a clock ticking down in tennis. Yet for Coco Gauff at Wimbledon on Sunday, the All England Club's 11pm curfew made it seem like there was—and Gauff hit the winning shot at the buzzer, reports the AP. Two minutes before 11, Gauff converted her first match point with a service winner out wide to reach the quarterfinals at the grass-court Grand Slam for the first time.

Taylor Swift's wedding reception apparently came with a Beatle. People reports that Paul McCartney, 84, took the stage at Swift and Travis Kelce's star-filled celebration at Madison Square Garden on Friday and performed the Beatles' breakout hit "I Want to Hold Your Hand." A source tells the outlet that after the ceremony, Swift's mother, Andrea, ushered guests into a reception space with a full stage set up, where McCartney and longtime Swift mentor Stevie Nicks both performed.

After a US player was given a red card during a World Cup match on Wednesday night, touching off a furor, President Trump picked up the phone. He asked FIFA President Gianni Infantino to reconsider the referee's call that suspended the American team's leading scorer after a foul against Bosnia and Herzegovina, the New York Times reports.

The largest digital camera ever built is starting to capture images of unseen corners of the universe. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially begun its cosmic survey, meant to capture swaths of the sky in more depth and detail, reports the AP. Perched on a Chilean mountaintop, the telescope will point its eye at the southern sky for the next 10 years, taking hundreds of images per night.

A new White House report brands the leadership of the Smithsonian Institution, especially at the National Museum of American History, as radical activists who cannot be trusted, indicating that President Trump may be preparing to install his own team. The report was released late on Independence Day by the White House Domestic Policy Council, the AP reports. Trump has been waging an aggressive campaign to overhaul some of Washington's most sacred cultural and historic institutions.

A new working paper suggests that the power of popular weight-loss drugs may extend to the job market. In a report published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Harvard economist Rebecca Diamond analyzed survey data from more than 10,000 adults and found that unemployed women who started taking GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic and Wegovy saw their employment rate rise 27% after 18 months, compared with similar women who wanted the drugs but hadn't yet used them, reports Fast Company.

Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow said Sunday she's suspending her US Senate campaign, remaking the August primary into a showdown between US Rep. Haley Stevens and former gubernatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed in a state that Democrats see as crucial to winning back the Senate. McMorrow, who rose to prominence with a viral 2022 floor speech defending LGBTQ+ youth, had run as a combative progressive willing to buck Democratic leadership, even promising not to support Sen.

AI that's supposed to make Tripadvisor easier to use may also be smoothing over some travelers' criticisms, a new investigation suggests. UK consumer group Which? found AI-written hotel summaries on Tripadvisor that cast properties in a largely positive light despite reviews alleging raw chicken, vermin near buffets, mass illness, no water for showering, and even sexual harassment by staff.

Florida has long been a "stronghold of capital punishment," but its death chamber is busier today than it has been since the 1930s, writes Pamela Colloff in a sweeping investigation for ProPublica and the New York Times Magazine. Colloff explores how Gov. Ron DeSantis has turned Florida into the epicenter of capital punishment even as most of the country has pulled back.

A small Quebec town is doing more than just hugging trees—it's giving them rights. As the New York Times reports, Terrasse-Vaudreuil, a community of about 2,000 west of Montreal, has become the first governing body to formally adopt the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Trees.