Voters handed Democrats every House district touching Mexico and all four border-state governorships.

• Why it matters: Starting next year, the sweep gives Democrats new leverage over state resources, border spending and legal challenges during President Trump's final two years, Axios' Russell Contreras reports.

🧮 By the numbers: Democrats last held all four governorships — California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas — in January 1979, according to National Governors Association records.

• Democrats swept all 10 House districts touching Mexico for the first time since 2008, per an AP analysis. Three were flips.
• Democrats also won the top legal offices in all four border states, including Texas, where the party hadn't won an attorney general race since 1994.

Zoom in: Texas Democrat Gina Hinojosa's defeat of Gov. Greg Abbott (R) could bring the most immediate border changes.

• Abbott spent about $11 billion on Operation Lone Star, deploying state police and National Guard troops and building Rio Grande barriers, The Texas Tribune reports.
• Hinojosa, Texas' first Latina governor-elect, has questioned that spending. She can rethink state deployments and enforcement priorities, though existing laws and federal authority limit her options.

🔭 Zoom out: Several Democrats elected in border districts campaigned on both strong border security and pathways to citizenship for longtime undocumented immigrants.

• Bobby Pulido, who flipped a Texas GOP-held seat, said in his launch video: "Yes, we have to get the criminals out and secure the border. But we can do that without destroying families and our South Texas economy." He also told The Texas Tribune that he wants to codify a pathway to citizenship.
• JoAnna Mendoza, who flipped an Arizona seat, also backs a strong border and legal pathways to citizenship.

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Nvidia's near-30% stock plunge in the past month is a drag on the retirement savings of millions of Americans.

• Why it matters: Nvidia's enormous weight in popular index funds means even those who have never purchased a single share of the company could feel the pain of its corporate upheaval in their 401(k)s, Axios' Madison Mills reports.

📉 By the numbers: Index funds held nearly half of the assets in large private-sector 401(k) plans in 2023, according to the Investment Company Institute.

• Those funds include investments tracking the S&P 500, and Nvidia accounts for roughly 8% of that index, according to Tom Graff, chief investment officer at financial planning firm Facet.
• That exposure rises to around 14% in growth-style index funds and can reach 25% to 30% in some technology and semiconductor funds commonly found in retirement plans, Graff said.

🔎 Zoom in: For an investor with $100,000 in an S&P 500 fund, a 30% drop in Nvidia shares would knock about $2,400 off the value of that investment given an 8% S&P holding, assuming other stocks in the fund stayed flat.

• For a growth-style tech fund with 25% exposure to Nvidia, that decline would amount to $7,500 in lost value.

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The U.S. air travel schedule should return to normal by the end of today, two days after the nation's longest ground stop in 25 years, Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Bryan Bedford told reporters yesterday.

• U.S. flights had 9,201 cancellations on Friday, 6,692 yesterday and 1,445 so far today, according to the FlightAware tracker.
• At airports across America yesterday, passengers were still scrambling to reach their destinations. Some waited out the chaos in hotels. Others sprinted to snag rental cars and bus or train tickets. Many camped out in airports.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy explained the outage was caused when a contractor upgraded a telecommunications copper wire to fiber-optic cable and installed a new router.

• "It was such an old wire that it was being discontinued, meaning that line was going to get shut down. So we had to switch it over from old copper," Duffy said. He said teams are working to figure out whether the outage occurred because of contractor error or faulty equipment.

📺 Yesterday, CNN had a tracker in a corner of the screen showing FlightAware's tally of delays and cancellations. As Duffy spoke, each figure rose relentlessly.

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SpaceX caught its next-gen Starship rocket back at its launch pad for the first time yesterday, making rocketry history.

• Why it matters: It's a huge step toward realizing SpaceX's vision of Starship as a fully reusable, 171-foot-tall space launch behemoth. Such reusability could dramatically cut launch costs, potentially ushering in a new era of commercial spaceflight, Axios' Alex Fitzpatrick writes.

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The Pan American Health Organization has determined the United States has lost its measles elimination status, Axios' Adriel Bettelheim reports.

• Why it matters: It's an official recognition of how much the country's public health has deteriorated due to a rolling series of outbreaks since early last year.

By the numbers: There have been 5,412 confirmed cases so far this year, compared to 2,289 for all of 2025, according to the CDC's latest tally.

• Those reports are widely considered to be an undercount, due to the lack of widespread testing and unreported instances of mild illness.

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Sprawling networks of space data centers could make it nearly impossible for humans to stargaze.

• That's just one of the many risks that come with placing tens of thousands of AI computers into orbit, Axios' Thomas Novelly writes from a new report for the Innovation for Cool Earth Forum.

Why it matters: Most Americans don't want data centers built near them, but putting them in space brings a new set of problems.

1. 🌟 If space data centers proliferate, the "most visible points of light in the sky during much of the night in much of the world could be satellites, not stars," the report said, mirroring astronomers' worries.
2. 🪖 If the U.S. military adopts the technology, the data centers could become targets.
3. 💥 The risk of collisions grows as thousands of orbital data centers whip around the Earth at 17,000 mph.
4. 🚀 Space data centers are solar-powered. But the rocket launches needed to put them in orbit generate greenhouse gases and black carbon emissions.

By the numbers: Despite those concerns, investors and tech innovators are all in on space data centers.

• In 2025, around $197 million in investments were tied to orbital data centers, per market research firm Quilty Space. That figure has swelled to $1.11 billion so far this year.

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Young Americans are challenging beliefs their parents and grandparents once considered sacred.

• Why it matters: Neither party can count on old political loyalties to win over a generation increasingly willing to break with the past, Axios' Russell Contreras reports.

1. ✊ Socialism: 35 years after the Soviet Union collapsed, some 57% of Americans ages 18–34 view socialism positively, compared with 43% for capitalism, according to a September 2026 Gallup poll. Among Americans 55 and older, 65% view capitalism positively, compared with 34% for socialism.

2. 🇮🇱 Israel: Decades after Israel fought wars against neighboring Arab states, some 53% of Americans ages 18–34 sympathize more with Palestinians, compared with 23% who sympathize more with Israelis, according to Gallup's February 2026 survey.

3. ⛪ Christianity: After centuries as the overwhelming religious identity of Americans, only 54% of Americans ages 18–29 now identify as Christian, compared with 76% of those 65 and older, according to the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute's 2025 Census of American Religion, released in April.

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Bowen Yang made a surprise return cameo as Jensen Huang in the "Saturday Night Live" cold open last night. The "CIA Headquarters" sketch included portrayals of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Peter Thiel.

• John Mulaney, the night's guest host, played a CIA briefer warning the moguls that the Venn diagram of "Beautiful women" who want to have sex with them and lap up "Your interests and opinions" is ... "Spy."

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