A San Francisco judge found the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic illegal and retaliatory. The company had refused to let its models be used for autonomous weapons or domestic surveillance. The wider question — who sets the limits on military AI — is still open.
Why an island of 57,000 people has become a trans-Atlantic crisis: the minerals, the missile route, the shipping lanes, and the awkward fact that Greenland already has the legal right to decide its own future.
Iran’s foreign minister says US officials are gaming energy markets for personal gain and keeping the president in a losing war. No evidence was published, no names given. Why the claim is worth reporting anyway — and how to read it.
Survivors cut off in the upper valleys are reaching safety, and residents of Nuwakot spent Saturday digging belongings out of the mud. Close to 3,000 people are still unaccounted for — a number that needs reading carefully.
Settlers entered the northern West Bank village of Qusra again on Saturday and ambulances evacuated injured Palestinians. Benjamin Netanyahu, who has said little about similar incidents for months, condemned it as criminal violence.
Mutiny, coup attempt or insurgent raid — from outside, in the dark, they look the same. What the state broadcaster, the claims of responsibility and the arrests that follow can tell you, and why officials pull in different directions on the first day.
Gunfire and explosions hit Niamey’s airport, a major air base and the area around the presidential palace overnight. One security source calls it a mutiny within the armed forces; another calls it a terrorist attack. Both accounts are still standing.
Israel’s defence minister said any launch over Gaza is a terrorist act, renewing a threat against anyone releasing a balloon or kite. Parents are now enforcing the ban themselves. The tactic behind the policy is real; so is what it costs.
Disclosure forms show more than a thousand transactions in June, including energy companies profiting from the war the president is directing. It is lawful, it is disclosed, and the conflict-of-interest statute does not apply to presidents.
Government lawyers raised demolition of the national memorial to President Kennedy as a possible consequence if the administration cannot add Trump’s name to the building. What that argument is, and what it isn’t.