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Xi tells Trump that US and China are ‘partners not rivals’. Warns him Taiwan ‘most important issue’ in relations—AND MORE
Financial Times: Xi Jinping told Donald Trump that the US and China needed to be “partners, not rivals”…
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US authorities prepare to end Adani fraud cases
Financial Times: They come after Adani’s legal team privately mentioned to SEC and DoJ officials that the billionaire had pledged in the wake…
Xpeng in talks with VW about buying factory in Europe
Financial Times: Xpeng, often known as China’s Tesla, is in talks with Volkswagen and other carmakers about buying a factory in Europe as it…
Iran war saps money from other Pentagon needs, leaders warn
Wall Street Journal: Pentagon leaders say they could start running out of money for operations this summer unless Congress passes a new…
U.S. ambassadors missing in action under Trump
Wall Street Journal: Veteran diplomats say unprecedented vacancies hamper American global power but Trump officials dismiss those criticisms…
ICE moving forward with warehouse detention plan despite lawsuits, probe
Washington Post: In an analysis of those purchases, CoStar found DHS paid an average of 13 percentabove market values. Most recently, DHS…
Supreme Court preserves access to mail distribution of widely used abortion pill
Washington Post: The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that patients can, for now, continue to access by mail the most commonly used abortion…
Border Patrol chief resigns in latest DHS leadership shake-up
NBC: Bank’s departure is the latest leadership shake-up of officials implementing President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and comes as…
Graduates boo commencement speech about A.I.
New York Times: “The rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution,” she said, addressing a sea of black caps, gowns and…
Inside secret mission to fly Taiwan’s President to Africa
New York Times: From satellite phone check-ins to a borrowed royal plane, new details show how Taiwan’s leader’s team outwitted China and…
Appeals court appears skeptical of Trump orders targeting law firms
New York Times: A three-judge panel showed few signs of siding with the president on his efforts to compel law firms to work for the…
Green card holders targeted for deportation by new ‘removal apparatus’
New York Times: The Department of Homeland Security recently formed a unit tasked with revetting thousands of immigrants with permanent…
Life, death and rebirth in land of Buddha
New York Times: Starting at the birthplace of Buddhism, a writer traces how its teachings spread across Asia, transforming the continent…
C.I.A. director visits Cuba as tensions rise and island runs out of oil
New York Times: The Cuban government said Mr. Ratcliffe had met with the country’s interior minister. The meeting, according to Cuba’s…
Pentagon’s ‘Deal Team Six’ aims to challenge China’s grip on rare earth power
Bloomberg: The Pentagon group is known internally as “Deal Team Six” in a half-joking reference to the Navy’s elite special missions unit,…
Taiwan to require big power users to build own energy facilities
Bloomberg: The move highlights the government’s efforts to adapt to increasing electricity demand, especially as the island houses some of the…
Emails show FBI Director Kash Patel’s Hawaii trip included ‘VIP snorkel’ at Pearl Harbor memorial
Associated Press: Left out of the FBI’s news releases was an exclusive excursion that Patel took days later when he participated in what…
‘I defected to show fellow Russians they can fight Putin’
Times: When Miroslav Simonov, an estate agent, was sent to the front line, his commanders joked about killing civilians — he changed sides,…
New York man convicted after opening Chinese police station
Wall Street Journal: A federal jury convicted a U.S. citizen on Wednesday of acting as an unregistered foreign agent for his part in…
Study: The more a govt controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI
Nature: This result is correlational, so to triangulate the specific mechanism of how state media control can influence LLMs, we develop a…
Leading challenger to UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer quits govt
CNN: In his letter, Streeting said last week’s elections had put “nationalists in power in every corner” of the country, which he said could…
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