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NYTIMES (Tara Siegel Bernard and Margot Sanger-Katz) - Social Security Benefits Could Be Cut in 6 Years Unless Congress Acts

The trust fund for the program, which supports roughly 68 million Americans, is on schedule to be depleted in the next six years. Benefits could be cut on average by 22 percent.

NPR (Dave Davies) - Are we ready to host the FIFA World Cup, and who can afford to go?

The biggest World Cup ever starts this week. Laura Williamson, editor in chief of The Athletic, describes how sky-high prices, travel restrictions, politics and the Ebola outbreak are impacting fans.

AXIOS (Dan Primack) - The bull and bear cases for SpaceX

It's a foregone conclusion that SpaceX will raise at least $85 billion in its record-wrecking IPO , with pricing set for Thursday and first trades for Friday. - The question, therefore, is what happens next. The bull case SpaceX will generate hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue by 2030, despite booking less than $19 billion last year . The biggest chunk should be from Starlink, which will leverage Starship's larger payloads to supercharge its nascent direct-to-cell business. Starlink could corner the global market, either as a replacement for legacy carriers or as their new infrastructure layer (thus reducing consumer switching costs). Don't forget about its massive spectrum purchase from Echostar. The floor for SpaceX's AI…

NYTIMES (Jesus Jiménez) - Inside a World Cup Nerve Center Monitoring Fans, Drones and Heat

Officials in North Texas will watch for potential threats from a new $40 million emergency operations center, one of many new security precautions in place across North America.

NYTIMES (Nick Romeo and Gabriela Bhaskar) - She’s Set to Swim the Entire 900-Mile California Coast — Sharks Permitting

Swimming 900 miles won’t be “the worst way to spend four months,” Catherine Breed says — as long as the great whites, jellyfish and elephant seals leave her alone.