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US envoy heading to Switzerland as Lebanon fighting tests Iran agreement. U.S., Qatar work to give Iran access to billions of dollars in frozen cash—AND MORE
CNN: US envoy Steve Witkoff is traveling to Switzerland for technical talks with Iran, a US official said, with President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner…
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New York Times: The U.S. envoy to Paris has emerged as the embodiment of combative diplomacy in the age of President Trump, riling the French…
India calls in military, blocks app to lock down college-entrance exam
Wall Street Journal: The extraordinary measures are a response to a recent scandal that angered millions of young Indians and sparked a…
Rural gay love story Cactus Pears is quietly radical moment for Indian film
Financial Times: Rohan Parashuram Kanawade on channelling his own experience into one of the country’s only screen portrayals of homosexuality…
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: Push for online safety risks mass surveillance
Bloomberg: The president of the encrypted messaging app says autonomous AI agents, device scanning and digital advertising are converging into…
Secret vetting and blocked promotions: Inside Hegseth’s war on diversity
New York Times: A Black admiral fixed one of the Navy’s worst messes. Mr. Hegseth blocked his promotion anyway…
Trump unveils new Air Force One jet gifted by Qatar
NBC: President Donald Trump on Friday officially unveiled his new Air Force One jet that was contentiously given to him by the Qatari…
Europe’s making fewer cars and lots of them are actually Chinese
Bloomberg: Workers at a car plant in Rennes, France, are worried about worsening working conditions and a loss of stability due to a deal with…
New Super PAC aims to rally tech workers to help limit A.I.
New York Times: The Guardrails Alliance, which has raised $5 million, is positioning itself as a populist effort that will take on the…
Whistleblower kidnapped after explosive South Sudan revelations
Financial Times: A South Sudanese businessman who helped expose alleged state capture has been kidnapped at gunpoint in Nairobi and bundled…
Italy’s Meloni says Trump ‘totally invented’ story that she begged him for photo
Reuters: Meloni said she was “astonished” by his comments, which were “completely made up”. She also chided him for acting with far greater…
Trump’s new acting intel chief Bill Pulte arrives early, eyes firing hundreds
CNN: The sources said Pulte is eyeing to cut hundreds of jobs at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). Pulte’s…
Lutnick’s Anthropic crackdown claims new power over AI models
Bloomberg: The Trump administration’s push to rein in Anthropic PBC relies on an unprecedented use of export control laws and raises legal…
Sweden may oppose Tesla’s supervised self-driving tech in Europe over speeding concerns
Reuters: In a previously unreported letter dated April 30, obtained through a freedom of information request, the Swedish Transport…
White House delays release of US voting machine study as midterms near
Reuters: The report, produced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, concludes that voting machines could be further…
Burnham’s emphatic Makerfield win leaves Starmer and Labour MPs with big decision on leadership
BBC: It has allowed Burnham and his team to road test an argument here – and we can expect to hear more of it in the coming days and weeks –…
US-Iran talks postponed, peace deal under stress as Israel’s strikes Hezbollah. Vance warns Israeli critics over Iran deal: Trump is your only ally—AND MORE
CNN: Vice President JD Vance is no longer traveling to Switzerland for US-Iran negotiations today, with talks postponed. Iran has asked for…
Your PC might soon demand proof of age before letting you browse. Here’s what to know
PC Mag: Age verification started with porn and social media. Now, governments are passing laws requiring operating systems to collect your age…
Amazon retaliated against workers who supported regulating data centers, complaint says
New York Times: The complaint was filed on the workers’ behalf by Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, an independent group of corporate…
How Peter Thiel-linked dialog club secretly ranks its members
Wired: Leaked files show the invite-only network grades members by their money and fame, shaping who’s in, who’s out, and who pays…
Germany taps Israeli, Ukrainian missile companies after Trump setback
Politico Europe: Germany is turning to Israel and Ukraine to potentially acquire the low-cost, long-range cruise missiles it needs to deter…
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