Heat records were broken this week in more than 280 locations across the U.S. Axios' Sareen Habeshian reports from NOAA data.

• New daily heat records were set in at least 50 cities on Tuesday alone.

☀️ Where it stands: Nearly 130 million people are under extreme heat warnings or advisories today, as a heat dome continues to scorch the Midwest and East Coast.

• And the heat wave is expected to continue at least into tomorrow.

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The Trump administration's cuts to the federal workforce — spearheaded by Elon Musk's DOGE — are beginning to bleed into the private sector, Axios' Emily Peck reports.

• Job listings from the 25 largest federal contractors are down 15% since January, according to data from Indeed.
• Postings from all other employers fell by just 0.5%.

✂️ "There's been a pretty clear nose dive" among federal contractors, said Cory Stahle, an economist with the Indeed Hiring Lab.

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2. 🇮🇱 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to meet with President Trump at the White House in the coming weeks to celebrate the joint U.S-Israeli bombing of Iran's nuclear program, Israeli officials told Axios' Barak Ravid.
3. 🕶️ Anna Wintour is planning to step down as the editor-in-chief of U.S. Vogue, but she'll continue as global editorial director for the magazine, which she has led since 1988. Go deeper.

Celebrities have begun flocking to Venice for Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez's wedding this weekend.

• The Kardashians, Oprah Winfrey, Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Brady, among others, were all spotted in the city ahead of a welcome party last night, per People.
• Hardly any details about the festivities have been made public.