The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has updated its policies to ban transgender women from competing in women's sports, in line with President Trump's executive order.
The big picture: Trump's push to end protections for transgender people, including thebanning of trans athletes from women's sports, has left transgender and nonbinary people across the U.S. navigating an upended sports landscape.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is facing the first major anti-government protests since Russia's invasion, after lawmakers passed a bill Tuesday weakening two key anti-corruption agencies.
Why it matters: The bill, which multiple reports say Zelensky has now signed, has already drawn outrage from Ukrainian activists and media outlets and could damage Ukraine's relations with its Western backers.
Senior U.S., Israeli and Syrian officials are expected to meet Thursday in an effort to reach security understandings regarding the situation in southern Syria, a U.S. official and another source with knowledge tell Axios.
Why it matters: This will be the first meeting between the parties since the crisis erupted last week in the city of Suwayda in southern Syria last week and the Israeli strikes on Damascus that followed.
President Trump's decision to withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is not a surprise — but it marks yet another drop in Washington's roller-coaster relationship with the agency.
The big picture: The move mirrors the president's first term, when the U.S. departed UNESCO over alleged anti-Israel bias, and deepens the administration's broader retreat from multilateral bodies deemed hostile or ineffective.
At least three China-based hacking teams have been exploiting a previously unknown flaw in Microsoft SharePoint since at least July 7, the company said in a blog post.
Why it matters:Microsoft and security researchers didn't uncover the vulnerability until this past weekend, leaving thousands of customers exposed to potential nation-state hacking.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed on Monday that President Trump was unhappy with Israel's airstrikes in Syria last week and called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to "rectify" the situation.
The intrigue: Axios reported Sundaythat Israel's decision to bomb Syrian tanks and government buildings last week alarmed senior U.S. officials and deepened their concerns over Israel's policies across the region.
The U.S. has reached an "inflection point" that demands "swift and decisive action" to reverse erosion of industrial capacity and tech leadership, warns a major new report from the nonprofit Securing America's Future Energy.
Why it matters: "The rise of China as a global economic and military competitor presents one of the most existential challenges the United States has faced in its history," it finds.
