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NYTIMES (Kurtis Lee and Shelby Tauber) - Heat Kills Hundreds of Workers Each Year. A Postal Carrier Was One.

About half a dozen states explicitly protect workers from excessive heat. And some others, like Texas, prevent local governments from passing their own laws.

NYTIMES (Tracy Mumford, Will Jarvis, Margaret Kadifa, Jake Lucas, Ian Stewart, Nicholas Casey and Amelia Nierenberg) - Key Takeaways From This Week’s Primaries, and the Deportees Stuck in ‘No Man’s Land’

Plus, why new Alzheimer’s tests are causing distress.

WASHINGTONPOST (Jonathan O'Connell, Sarah Blaskey) - Trump administration set to spend at least $900 million on White House construction

The price tag is much larger than what has been previously reported, according to a Post review of confidential contracts, and taxpayers would cover most of it.

WASHINGTONPOST (Cole Reynolds) - Polymarket let users bet on wildfires. Lawmakers warn that could spur arson.

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) said “you never want to encourage the obscene act of starting a fire.”

JUSTTHENEWS (John Solomon, Steven Richards) - FBI had 14 informants on Biden corruption but ran secret op to dismiss evidence as disinformation

Bureau secretly flagged Cabinet officials like Bill Barr and Mike Pompeo, lawmakers and journalists as ‘conduits’ for Russia propaganda.

NYTIMES (Muktita Suhartono and Ulet Ifansasti) - In Bali, a Quest to Restore the Sacred Glow of Fireflies

The insects, revered in local culture, are disappearing for many reasons, including rapid development to cater to tourists.