Bitter rivals.  Beloved friends.  Survivors.  —  After 50 years, Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova understand each other like no one else can.  When cancer came, they knew where to turn.  —  Deep Reads features The Washington Post's best immersive reporting and narrative writing.

Most Americans approve of Supreme Court decision restricting use of race in college admissions: POLL  —  52% of Americans support the Supreme Court decision.  —  A majority of Americans approve of the Supreme Court ruling restricting the use of race as a factor in college admissions …

Smoke will keep pouring into the US as long as fires are burning in Canada.  Here's why they aren't being put out  —  Another wave of wildfire smoke has drifted into the US, dimming blue summer skies and igniting troubling concerns regarding the increasing frequency of fires, and what they have to do with climate change.

Half the Police Force Quit.  Crime Dropped.  —  Mr. Balko is the author of “Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces” and the criminal justice newsletter The Watch.  —  In a staggering report last month, the Department of Justice documented pervasive abuse …

New Iowa laws take effect Saturday including overhaul of child labor rules  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — After a busy 2023 legislation session, Iowans will start feeling the effect of lawmakers' work.  Several new laws go into effect Saturday that will impact everyone across the state.

DeSantis's stalling campaign: how to lose friends and alienate people  —  Florida governor launched his bid for the 2024 Republican presidential pick as Trump's main challenger but finds himself sinking in the polls  —  Among the books still available in Florida despite Ron DeSantis's ongoing purge of …

Hunter Biden's Daughter and a Tale of Two Families  —  The story surrounding the president's grandchild in Arkansas, who has not yet met her father or her grandfather, is about money, corrosive politics and what it means to have the Biden birthright.  —  Katie Rogers reported from Batesville, Ark.; Little Rock, Ark.; and Washington.

The first GOP debate is at risk of losing its draw  —  A debate stage that was once expected to be as sprawling as it was in 2016 may amount to a slimmed-down affair.  —  The GOP primary debate seemed originally like it could result in political fireworks.

How Colleges Admissions Might Diversify Without Affirmative Action  —  To build a diverse class of students, the medical school at U.C. Davis ranks applicants by the disadvantages they have faced.  Can it work nationally?  —  For the head of admissions at a medical school …

U.S. Attorney in Hunter Biden Case Defends Investigation to House Republicans  —  David C. Weiss, a Trump appointee, denied that he had retaliated against an I.R.S. official who testified about divisions in the case.  —  The U.S. attorney in Delaware denied retaliating against an I.R.S. official …

The Pentagon policy bill's next big stumbling block: Kevin McCarthy  —  If the speaker loads up the bill with conservative measures, he could lose crucial Democrats.  —  The Pentagon's must-pass policy bill has been signed into law each year for six decades.  House Democrats are worried Kevin McCarthy is about to muck it up.

Along With Conservative Triumphs, Signs of New Caution at Supreme Court  —  Chief Justice Roberts delivered both landmark victories for the right and significant rulings in which he forged alliances with the liberal justices.  —  By Adam LiptakGraphics by Alicia Parlapiano  —  Reporting from Washington

Shell still trading Russian gas despite pledge to stop  —  Shell is still trading Russian gas more than a year after pledging to withdraw from the Russian energy market.  —  The company was involved in nearly an eighth of Russia's shipborne gas exports in 2022, according to analysis from campaign group Global Witness.

The man named in the Supreme Court's gay rights ruling says he didn't request a wedding website  —  A Colorado web designer who the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday could refuse to make wedding websites for gay couples cited a request from a man who says he never asked to work with her.

Trump in SC: Crowd of 50,000 packs Pickens.  More than 50 treated for heat-related illness  —  Former President Donald Trump didn't have to do much convincing to impress a hometown crowd of mostly Trump supporters in Pickens Saturday.  —  Nearly 75 percent of Pickens County voters selected Trump …