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Good evening. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.
1. Russia claims that Ukraine killed the daughter of a prominent war supporter.
Russian officials said the killing of Daria Dugina by a car bomb “was prepared and committed by the Ukrainian intelligence agencies” and carried out by a Ukrainian woman, who then drove across the border into Estonia. Ukrainian officials denied any connection.
The victim is the daughter of Aleksandr Dugin, a political theorist who has long called for the reconquest of Ukraine and whose hawkish visions of a resurgent, imperial and antiliberal Russia provided an intellectual underpinning to Putin’s aggressive foreign policy. As an ultranationalist commentator, Dugina followed in his footsteps.
2. Democrats’ new climate law defines greenhouse gases as pollution, potentially voiding the Supreme Court’s justification for reining in the E.P.A.
By amending the Clean Air Act to call the burning of fossil fuels an “air pollutant,” Congress explicitly gave the E.P.A. the authority to regulate greenhouse gases and to use its power to push wind, solar and other renewable energy sources, according to legal experts.
The new language is aimed at reversing the Supreme Court’s decision in June to stop the E.P.A. from restricting power plant emissions. The court had argued that Congress had never granted the agency such broad authority.
Related: Overlooked in the bill are billions of dollars in loans and loan guarantees for clean energy projects.
Barre Seid, a longtime conservative donor, last year donated 100 percent of the shares of his company, Tripp Lite, to a nonprofit group before the company was sold to an Irish conglomerate. The structure of the donation allowed Seid to avoid paying taxes on the sale of his company.
The beneficiary, Marble Freedom Trust, is a new political group controlled by Leonard Leo, an activist who has used his connections to Republican donors and politicians to help engineer the conservative dominance of the Supreme Court.
4. Dr. Anthony Fauci will leave government in December.
After 38 years leading the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Fauci said he intended to leave government service and “pursue the next chapter” of his career.
Now 81 years old, Fauci had repeatedly hinted at plans of retiring over the next few years. But in an interview with Sheryl Gay Stolberg, he said he was “not retiring in the classic sense” but would devote himself to traveling, writing and encouraging young people to enter government service.
Few scientists have had as large or as long-lasting an impact on public policy. Fauci joined the National Institutes of Health in 1968 and was appointed the director of its infectious disease branch in 1984, when the AIDS epidemic demanded attention.
In pandemic news, students in the Philippines began returning to school after more than two years, ending one of the world’s longest shutdowns.
5. Pakistan’s former prime minister was charged under the country’s antiterrorism act.
The charges came one day after Imran Khan — the former cricket star who was ousted from power in a no-confidence vote in April — gave a speech condemning a recent arrest of one of his top aides.
The authorities said that Khan’s comments amounted to a deliberate and illegal attempt to intimidate the country’s judiciary and police force. But Khan, who remains a powerful force in Pakistani politics, has not yet been arrested.
6. Mental illness is not a useful means of predicting gun violence, experts argue.
In the aftermath of a mass shooting, mental illness is a time-honored way to understand the incomprehensible: How could a person who kills indiscriminately be in their right mind?
Yet America’s mass killers fit no single profile and certainly no pattern of insanity. Many, if not most, had never been diagnosed with a serious psychiatric disorder. Many experts have come instead to focus on warning signs that include changes in behavior, demeanor or appearance, uncharacteristic fights, and disclosure to others of plans for violence.
Related: As anxiety and depression soared among adolescents, researchers struggled to understand how exactly social media affects mental health.
7. After dark, Eric Adams favors an upscale Manhattan restaurant run by friends with troubled pasts.
When Adams became New York’s mayor, he vowed to boost nightlife in every corner of the city. But when a team of Times reporters observed him for the entire month of June, he spent at least 14 evenings at Osteria La Baia.
The restaurant is run by Adams’s close friends, Robert and Zhan Petrosyants — twin brothers with past felony convictions, outstanding tax debts and a trail of legal troubles. His frequent trips there have raised ethical questions.
Also happening in New York: One of the state’s most bruising and bitter congressional primary seasons will come to a head tomorrow. The results could shake the foundations of power in Washington.
8. Roku’s plan for revitalizing its business: Get “Weird.”
With big hair, a mustache and many Hawaiian shirts, Daniel Radcliffe is starring as “Weird Al” Yankovic in an unconventional biopic of the beloved parodist. The $12 million film “Weird” is Roku’s most ambitious move into original programming after years of focusing almost entirely on streaming devices.
Scheduled for release on Roku’s own platform in November, the film is part of an effort to persuade viewers to spend more time perusing their service, which now includes 40,000 movies and television shows. Increased viewership could help boost Roku’s financial outlook, as device sales have become a smaller percentage of its revenue.
9. New climbing routes are being installed on cliffs across the U.S. No experience required.
Using cables, harnesses and carabiners, routes called via ferratas — from the Italian for “iron way” — offer a beginner-friendly alternative to rock climbing by letting climbers slide along cliff faces without ever detaching from the anchored wires.
Long popular in Europe, via ferrata routes are becoming more popular in the U.S. The system originated in Italy as a way to move soldiers through the mountains during World War I and was later adopted by intrepid hikers for ascending steeper terrain.
So far, at least 18 U.S. locations are open to the public. We’ve collected six of the best to explore.
10. And finally, do you believe your dog’s crying eyes?
A study published today reported that dogs produce more tears when reunited with their owners than with other humans. If that’s true, it would be the first evidence that emotions cause tears not just in dogs, but in any nonhuman animals.
Several outside scientists remain skeptical. The challenges of measuring dog tears effectively left some researchers unconvinced of the conclusions. Still, even skeptics seem to believe that dog tears play some role in a pet’s interactions with its owner: Humans tend to favor dogs with wet eyes.
Have an emotive night.
Brent Lewis compiled photos for this briefing.
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