A Forced Retreat for Trump and Hegseth, and What to Know About the Russia Plague Scare

Plus, the woman who helped make the moon landing possible. 

Here’s what we’re covering:

• Long-Deployed Aircraft Carrier U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln Set for Homecoming, by John Ismay and Jan Ransom
• Trump’s Retreat: From the Gulf to Britain, American Forces Pull Back, by David E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt
• How a U.S. Diplomat Suppressed and Altered Reports Critical of Israel, by Natan Odenheimer and Adam Rasgon
• Christa Pike, Awake and Confused, Is at the Center of a Legal Storm, by Emily Cochrane
• What Experts Want to Know About the Russia Plague Scare, by K. R. Callaway
• The Woman Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions Has Died, by Trip Gabriel

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