• If your summer vacation plans include a transfer through Newark Airport, you might want to purchase travel insurance.
• For the second time in just a week, the U.S. Navy has lost a fighter jet attached to the U.S.S. Harry S. Truman. Last week, a jet fell overboard when the ship unexpectedly took sudden maneuvers to avoid fire from Houthi rebels. This week, a second jet went overboard while landing when the system that catches and stops jets failed.
• Which list the Denver Nuggets belong on is a bit of a Rorschach test. One on hand, they beat the highly favored Oklahoma City Thunder in the first game of the series, essentially stealing home court advantage. On the other hand, they were blown out of game two, giving up an NBA playoff record 87 points in the first half. Game three is tonight.
• 9News parent company Tegna‘s Q1 earnings were down 5%, and Fox31 parent company Nexstar‘s were down 4%.
• Denver is sinking at a rate that could take us back to sea level in a mere 804,672 years. That is two millimeters per year, for you math fans.
• Apple executives have been accused of commissioning a sham report and lying on the witness stand in a recent federal antitrust trial.
• A Virginia teenager making a TikTok video was fatally shot while “ding dong ditch”-ing a home at 3 a.m..
• Singer Smokey Robinson and former NBA player and coach Byron Scott are facing allegations they sexually assaulted women.
• Fox News analyst Camryn Kinsey fainted live on air mid-rant.
• A Soviet spacecraft launched more than 50 years ago is now hurtling toward earth, and its protective heat shield means that it may survive re-entry. We’ll find out tomorrow morning.

Who won the week?

• Olympic skier and Vail native Mikaela Shiffrin has joined the ownership group of the new professional women’s soccer team in Denver.
• Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost is the first American to be elected pope. Raised in Chicago, he will now be known as Pope Leo XIV.
• Meanwhile, the house-flipper who coincidentally had Pope Leo‘s childhood home on the market for $200,000 has withdrawn the listing as he considers whether to raise the price or turn it into a museum.
• The parent company of British Airways announced a $13 billion deal to buy 32 Boeing airplanes, a much-needed lifeline for the competency-challenged airplane manufacturer.