Good morning. We're covering speeches by President Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu, and Paris's Olympic preparations. Plus: Singapore's lab-grown meat.
Why Biden stepped downIn a brief prime-time address from the Oval Office, President Biden said he had abandoned his re-election bid despite believing that his record and his leadership merited a second term. He declared that it was time for "new voices, fresh voices — yes, younger voices" led by a new generation of leadership in America. "I revere this office, but I love my country more," he said in his first speech since passing the torch to Kamala Harris, now the Democrats' presumptive nominee. "Nothing — nothing — can come in the way of saving our democracy. That includes personal ambition." Biden did not directly address the concerns about his age and his health that led him to quit the race. Instead, he pledged to keep working on foreign and domestic policy, seeking to advance his agenda for the next 180 days, even as a lame-duck president. Donald Trump: The former president described Harris as a "radical-left lunatic" who would destroy the country, called her "Lyin' Kamala" and repeatedly mispronounced her first name. Harris campaign: The vice president continued an energetic sprint around the country, saying that Trump wanted to return America to a "dark past." Here's a timeline of how she locked down her party's nomination in just 48 hours. Trump assassination attempt: The F.B.I. director said the gunman had researched John F. Kennedy's assassination and flown a drone near the Trump rally site before the shooting.
Netanyahu addresses CongressIn Washington yesterday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a full-throated defense of Israel's military campaign in Gaza and angrily pushed back on criticism of its conduct of the war, which has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians. "We're not only protecting ourselves," he said in an hourlong address, "we're protecting you." Netanyahu, who described the war as part of a larger conflict between Iran and the U.S., did not discuss the status of cease-fire talks with Hamas that have been underway for weeks. Here are six takeaways from the speech. The war has eroded a longstanding bipartisan consensus to back Israel in Congress. Dozens of Democratic members boycotted the speech, and the standing ovations Netanyahu received were mostly partisan. Republicans applauded loudly, and Democrats hung back. Outside: More than 5,000 pro-Palestinian demonstrators massed near the Capitol, some wearing Palestinian kaffiyehs, chanting for the U.S. to stop arming Israel and calling Netanyahu a "war criminal" and the "prime minister of genocide." Related: Britain's new government is likely to withdraw objections to the International Criminal Court prosecutor's pursuit of a warrant for Netanyahu's arrest, edging away from the stance of the U.S., its closest ally.
Paris is transformed for the OlympicsThe heart of Paris has fallen silent in preparation for the 2024 Summer Games' opening ceremony tomorrow. The ceremony, the first ever held outside the secure confines of a stadium, will float through the city on the Seine. It will depict 12 scenes from French history, intermingled with a parade of 10,000 athletes in boats. The city's security measures have thinned tourist crowds to a trickle and hurt businesses. Eleven million visitors are expected, down from earlier predictions of 15 million. For more: "A city that has seen it all." Let Roger Cohen, our Paris bureau chief, take you on a tour. In other news from the Games:
News From Asia
Huber's Butchery in Singapore is different from other butchers: The meat it sells is grown in a lab. The city-state, which has very little land to farm and imports 90 percent of its food, has become a world leader in "cultivated meat." Its success could have global significance. Lives lived: John Mayall, the pioneering British blues musician, died on Monday at 90.
A pandemic series about haves and have-notsSet against the background of the Black Death, "The Decameron," a new Netflix series loosely based on a 14-century book by Giovanni Boccaccio, is a comedy about a group of nobles who try to escape the plague by taking refuge in a villa, some with their servants. Kathleen Jordan, the showrunner, was inspired by the coronavirus pandemic — particularly by various instances of "tone deafness in celebrity culture," she said. At the time, some starlets in multimillion-dollar mansions said they felt like they were in prison, while frontline emergency workers struggled to save lives. The resulting show is a soapy tale of romance and intrigue that delivers edge-of-your-seat plot twists with a dark sense of humor. Read more about the series. We hope you've enjoyed this newsletter, which is made possible through subscriber support. Subscribe to The New York Times.
Bake: A press-in graham cracker crust makes this peaches and cream pie stand out. Compete: These video games let you experience Olympic glory without all the sweating. Watch: A rarely seen David Bowie rom-com is getting a refresh. Read: "The Secret Lives of Numbers" highlights overlooked contributions to mathematics. Play the Spelling Bee. And here are today's Mini Crossword and Wordle. You can find all our puzzles here. That's it for today's briefing. See you tomorrow. — Natasha P.S. Melissa Hoppert will be the next editor of The Times's Express desk, which handles breaking news. Reach Natasha and the team at briefing@nytimes.com.
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