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Hopes for Hormuz deal fade as Trump demands Iranian reparations. Iran shakes up military leadership—AND MORE
Reuters: Trump’s proposal, which had not been raised before, was a response to Tehran’s demands for compensation and an end to sanctions. The Iranian demands…
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Ukraine may be just the ally America needs
The Atlantic: These and other feats have left Ukraine looking less like a NATO supplicant than an invaluable source of military technology and…
Contradicting public statements, Trump took secret flight from Turkey amid Iranian threat
Washington Post: An Iranian assassination threat against President Donald Trump prompted an extraordinary operation lastmonth in which he flew…
Civilian or spy: Untold story of Russian-born federal contractor killed by FBI
CNN: Nearly two years later, federal authorities have said nothing about who Beloozerov was or why they fatally shot him. But a CNN…
Trump signs executive order aimed at reducing number of recommended childhood vaccines
CNN: The wide-ranging order proposes reducing the total number of immunizations recommended for children in their earliest years and dividing…
RFK Jr. targeting decades-old loophole allowing chemicals in food supply
Washington Post: The practice known as “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS) allows companies to self-certify the safety of certain food…
GOP lawmakers release Fauci texts discussing covid vaccine and pregnancy
Washington Post: In one message, according to screenshots the senators released, Fauci wrote: “Since many people have significant cytokines…
Trump media group racks up losses and pushes into nuclear fusion
Financial Times: Trump Media & Technology Group reported a loss of $238mn, $1.7mn in revenue and total assets of nearly $2bn in the second…
Google’s AI team tells job seekers its HR filters are unreliable
Bloomberg: Google DeepMind’s AGI Safety and Alignment Team, which seeks to mitigate the risks of advanced AI, is encouraging job candidates…
Mark Zuckerberg attacks ‘closed’ AI rivals as Meta returns to open models
Financial Times: The $1.5tn company on Monday released the underlying parameters of Muse Glimmer, a new “open” AI model that developers will…
OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves start-up less than one year after joining
Financial Times: OpenAI’s head of ethics has left the start-up less than a year after joining, following a number of departures by safety…
China bypasses shipping chokepoints with ‘Ice Silk Road’ through Arctic
Financial Times: Sea Legend, a Chinese container shipping company focusing on the Turkish and North African markets, will this week launch the…
How counterintelligence inquiry into Trump’s Russia ties was derailed
New York Times: There is little new of substance in the documents, and nothing that fundamentally undercuts the F.B.I.’s rationale for…
US backs Australian rare earth miner to cut out China
Financial Times: Donald Trump’s administration has provided a major funding boost to Australia’s hopes of unlocking non-Chinese supplies of a…
Spy cameras on Navy drones secretly sent data to China
Telegraph: The cameras on the K3 Scout surveillance drones had components made in China which were secretly transmitting information to a…
Inside school investigations frozen under Trump: Racial slurs, sexual harassment and more
Washington Post: The Education Department was in talks with dozens of districts at the end of the Biden administration. The cases have stalled…
America’s new oligarchy
Financial Times: “Now the tycoons are taking to being in government themselves,” says Ro Khanna, a Democratic member of the House of…
Israel rejects Trump’s Gaza peace plan, saying no withdrawal until Hamas disarms
CNN: But in his first remarks directly addressing the plan, Netanyahu said: “I want to be precise here: Israel rejects the 15-point document.”…
How drone ‘hellscape’ might stop Chinese invasion of Taiwan
New York Times: The goal is to use them to help locate and attack Chinese forces approaching the island, relying on Taiwanese soldiers trained…
Trump: “We are low keying it” with Iran—AND MORE
Axios: “We are low keying it,” Trump said during a brief phone call. He stressed that Iran “is in very bad shape” economically and has no…
Revealed: British PM Burnham adviser’s ‘irresponsible’ China links
Telegraph: Aide co-founded think tank with ex-Xinhua employee whose state media background was wiped from internet before launch…
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