GEOFF BENNETT: In the day's other headlines: The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to restart deportations of migrants to countries other than their own.

The case stems from an instance last month when immigration officials sent eight people on a plane to South Sudan, though they were then diverted to Djibouti.

A judge in Boston violated his court order giving people a chance to argue that they could face torture if deported.

The Supreme Court said its order will remain in place while the government appeals the Boston judges ruling.

All three liberal members of the court dissented.

Also today, the Supreme Court said it will not hear an appeal from the state of Virginia over its lifetime voting ban for convicted felons.

That decision allows two disenfranchised would-be voters to pursue their challenge to the law, which is one of the strictest in the nation.

Separately, the justices will take up an appeal from a former Louisiana inmate who's seeking to sue prison officials for forcibly shaving his head back in 2020.

Damon Landor is a Rastafarian who had not cut his hair for almost 20 years.

The justices will hear arguments in that case in the fall.

Turning now to the summer scorcher that's hitting much of the Eastern U.S., a heat wave is stretching from the Gulf Coast to the Upper Midwest and all the way to Maine.

All told, some 170 million Americans are currently under heat alerts.

That's about half the nation's entire population.

The heat plus humidity will make temperatures feel like they're above 100 degrees in many places.

VAK KOBIASHVILI, Rehoboth Beach Visitor: It's that like walking through a swamp kind of feeling.

LAURA MACALUSO, Rehoboth Beach Visitor: My thoughts on the heat warnings are, you got to be careful.

You can't - - you got to stay hydrated and... GEOFF BENNETT: The sprawling heat will last for most of the week, leaving little relief in sight.

Of course, it's summer and that always means higher temperatures, but meteorologists say not like this and not so early in the season.

Some pockets of the country, the places you see in darkest red, are expected to see temperatures this week upwards of 20 degrees above normal.

The number of abortions in the U.S. rose in 2024 due to a growing number of women obtaining abortion pills via telehealth.

A report out today found that one in four abortions last year used pills prescribed virtually.

That's up from one in 20 just before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade three years ago.

The increase could explain why fewer women crossed state lines to receive abortions in 2024 compared to the year earlier.

It comes amid a flurry of lawsuits and proposed legislation in Republican-led states aiming to restrict access to abortion pills.

In Ukraine, officials say a Russian missile and drone attack overnight killed at least 14 civilians.

Nine of those deaths were in the capital, Kyiv.

Rescuers spent the morning pulling bodies from the rubble, including at this apartment building.

Meantime, NATO Chief Mark Rutte pledged continued unwavering support for Ukraine as leaders gather in the Netherlands for this week's summit.

Member nations are expected to agree to a pledge to allocate 5 percent of their GDP to defense spending.

Rutte said today there will be no opt-outs or exceptions.

MARK RUTTE, NATO Secretary-General: It is now clear what kind of investment it will take to effectively deliver what we need.

And it is critical that each ally carries their fair share of the burden.

This is a quantum leap that is ambitious, historic, and fundamental to securing our future.

GEOFF BENNETT: Rutte's comments add a level of uncertainty to Spain's announcement over the weekend that it had reached a deal to be excluded from the new 5 percent target.

Last year, Spain allocated just over 1 percent on its defense, making it the lowest spender in the alliance.

President Trump's media company is buying back $400 million worth of its own stock.

Such moves often help lift a company's trading price.

Shares of Trump Media and Technology Group, which runs the TRUTH Social platform, have dropped more than 40 percent this year.

The stock ended about a third of 1 percent higher following the announcement.

As for Wall Street as a whole, stocks rallied after that relatively restrained military response from Iran.

The Dow Jones industrial average added around 375 points.

The Nasdaq jumped nearly 200 points.

The S&P 500 also ended higher to start the week.

The largest digital camera ever built has released its first snapshots of the universe.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile captured these images showing stars, nebulas, and entire galaxies thousands of light years from Earth.

The U.S.-funded observatory will survey the southern sky for the next decade, with the goal of documenting some 20 billion galaxies.

Just a few days ago, astronomers at the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, also in Chile, released this image of a nearby spiral galaxy.

And the acclaimed war correspondent Rod Nordland has died.

Over four decades, he covered most of the world's major conflicts for The New York Times and other publications.

Nordland also wrote a memoir called "Waiting for the Monsoon" about living with glioblastoma.

That's an aggressive form of brain cancer.

He spoke to our Nick Schifrin last year about how the disease changed him for the better.

ROD NORDLAND, The New York Times: The tumor made me look at the mistakes I had made in life and do things to correct them and really did bring me a second life, which was a tremendous gift, an opportunity to fix whatever I had done wrong in the first life.

GEOFF BENNETT: Rod Nordland was 75 years old.

Still to come on the "News Hour": New York City prepares to vote in a primary race that could forecast the future of the Democratic Party; Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski discusses her new memoir; and Tamara Keith and Amy Walter break down the latest political headlines.