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NYTIMES (Alex Pena, Bethlehem Feleke, Michael Anthony Adams and Mark Boyer) - Civilians Battle Wildfire Threatening Bordeaux

Residents in Bordeaux in southwestern France are doing everything in their power to stop a wildfire that’s been burning for more than a week. The flames are too spread out for professional firefighters to be everywhere, so for now, civilian volunteers are the only thing standing between the fire and a major French city.

AXIOS (Courtenay Brown) - Fed rates dissenters make their case for higher rates

Inflation has been too high for too long, and the Federal Reserve should not count on it fading without further action. - That is the argument from the three Fed officials who dissented from the decision led by chairman Kevin Warsh to leave interest rates unchanged this week, preferring instead to raise them. Why it matters: Together, the dissents lay out a blueprint for the Fed's hawkish wing, arguing that repeated supply shocks paired with resilient demand have made inflation too persistent to fade on its own without tighter monetary policy. - The question in the months ahead is whether that argument persuades more policymakers, especially if inflation remains stubborn. - It is worth watching whether they turn out to have momentum…

Inflation has been too high for too long, and the Federal Reserve should not count on it fading without further action. - That is the argument from the three Fed officials who dissented from the decision led by chairman Kevin Warsh to leave interest rates unchanged this week, preferring instead to raise them. Why it matters: Together, the dissents lay out a blueprint for the Fed's hawkish wing, arguing that repeated supply shocks paired with resilient demand have made inflation too persistent to fade on its own without tighter monetary policy. - The question in the months ahead is whether that argument persuades more policymakers, especially if inflation remains stubborn. - It is worth watching whether they turn out to have momentum…Open

NYTIMES (Annie Correal) - Did 75,000 Students Cheat on a College-Entrance Exam in Mexico?

The National Autonomous University of Mexico, or UNAM, is investigating after experts found that as many as half of all entrance exams could have involved cheating, including with A.I.

NYTIMES (Neil Vigdor) - Emily Wilson’s Pan of ‘The Odyssey’ Ignites a Debate Among Classicists and Commenters

Wilson, whose 2017 translation of Homer’s Greek classic influenced the director Christopher Nolan, panned his screenplay for the movie version in an essay for The London Review of Books.

NYTIMES (James Wagner and Luis Antonio Rojas) - Selling Burritos Back to Mexico: Chipotle’s Bold Expansion

As the Mexican-inspired American chain makes its debut in Mexico, it faces a major hurdle: convincing Mexicans to buy an Americanized take on their own national cuisine.