Remembering George F. Smoot and the Big Bang Evidence

Plus, a drastic drop in peanut allergies. 

Here’s what we’re covering:

Appeals Court Lifts Block on Trump’s Oregon Troop Deployment by Anna Griffin and Mattathias Schwartz

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders by Mattathias Schwartz and Zach Montague

White House Works to Preserve Gaza Deal Amid Concerns About Netanyahu by Katie Rogers and Luke Broadwater

Air Traffic Controllers Could Soon Be Getting No Pay by Karoun Demirjian

All but 2 Universities Decline a Trump Offer of Preferential Funding by Alan Blinder

Part of White House Is Reduced to Rubble. Trump’s Ballroom Will Rise in Its Place by Shawn McCreesh

Peanut Allergies Have Plummeted in Children, Study Shows by Simar Bajaj

George F. Smoot, Who Showed How the Cosmos Began, Is Dead at 80 by Katrina Miller

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