Today’s Paper

Highlights

1. A String of Supreme Court Decisions Hits Hard at Environmental Rules

   Four cases backed by conservative activists in recent years have combined to diminish the power of the Environmental Protection Agency.

    By Coral Davenport

   

   

2. Major Democratic Donors Ask Themselves: What to Do About Biden?

   Some floated interventions and wondered about how to reach Jill Biden. Others hoped the president would bow out of the race on his own. Many came to terms with the low chances that he will do so.

    By Theodore Schleifer, Kenneth P. Vogel and Shane Goldmacher

   

   

3. 1. Pattern of Brain Damage Is Pervasive in Navy SEALs Who Died by Suicide

      A military lab found distinctive damage from repeated blast exposure in every brain it tested, but Navy SEAL leaders were kept in the dark about the pattern.

       By Dave Philipps and Kenny Holston

      

      

   2. Motorcycles and Mayhem in Ukraine’s East

      In the latest tactic for storming trenches, Russians use motorcycles and dune buggies to speed across open space, often into a hail of gunfire.

       By Andrew E. Kramer, Maria Varenikova and Daniel Berehulak