Or most any major.

--Hamas is willing to turn over some weapons as peace talks continue in Gaza.
--Hundreds of AI-generated influencers boosting Trump on social media.
The NSA is using Anthropic’s Mythos model, despite Anthropic being on a Pentagon blacklist.

--Mitch Landrieu, the former LA gov and Biden White House adviser, is considering a 2028 Dem pres run.
--The DOJ and FBI are relaxing hiring requir to rebuild their workforces, which former officials see as a “lowering of long-accepted standards.”

--Trump and WH aides “working aggressively behind the scenes” to court influential podcaster Joe Rogan.
--Trump will join a public Bible reading on Tuesday following his feud with Pope Leo XIV.
--A State Dept del made a recent trip to Havana as Trump’s threats against Cuba continue.

--Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., faces a tenuous position with Dems in his state, with not a single PA House Dem in the deleg willing to say he should run for reelection.
--MN Gov. Tim Walz is launching Small Town PAC, a new fed PAC to recruit and support Dem candidates and expand the map.”

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Before they were arrested- Vets are demanding an end to the war on Iran at the Cannon Building in Washington, D.C.

Pa. court recognizes ‘reproductive autonomy’ as a right, strikes down ban on public funding for abortion In a 4-3 ruling, the Commonwealth Court found that abortion access is a fundamental right guaranteed by the Pennsylvania Constitution.

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Hopes dimmed that a new round of US-Iran negotiations would result in lasting peace after the US military seized an Iranian cargo ship, leading Tehran to threaten retaliation.

--The Iranian ship seized by the US mil in the Gulf is part of a fleet that sails frequently to China.
--Asian fin regulators are trying to address cybersecurity risks from Anthropic’s Mythos model.

--A NY Times polling analysis puts the Senate in play for Dems.
--US homebuilders fear the Iran war will cause them another “lost year.”
--Fed Res board members skeptical of Warsh’s pitch that an AI boom could merit interest rate cuts.

--Trump’s Fed Res nominee, Kevin Warsh, to tell sens at his confirm hearing tomorrow that “Fed independence is largely up to the Fed,”
--The SEC and CFTC proposed requiring hedge funds to share less data with the federal government.

Guinea worm is close to being the 2nd disease erad in history, following smallpox. It recorded just 10 human cases worldwide in 2025, down from 3.5M in 1986. There is no vaccine,no cure — humanity beat it with filters, clean water, and four decades of stubbornness.

CO lawmakers use marijuana taxes to lessen budget shortfall. CO has collected $3.1+B in mj tax revenue since legal. The state has a budget shortfall. Lawmakers are taking the marijuana tax money that currently goes to local govs and redirecting it to state funds.

interest that justified the exclusion, noting that if PA really cared about preg being carried to term, it could try investing in maternal healthcare instead.

Pa Medicaid Abortion Cover Ban Struck Down--PA state appeals court struck down state’s ban on Medicaid cover for abortions, ruling it viol Constit’s equal protection provis, and state had no compelling

A Florida Inter Uy student made a bad Netanyahu joke in a group chat, immediately said it was a bad joke, and was arrested at 2 a.m. for a felony. She faces a 2nd-degree felony charge for written threats to kill or do bodily harm, carrying a max pen of 15 years in prison. Her bail was set at $5,000.

Seven out of eight early-stage pancreatic cancer patients who responded to a new immunotherapy treatment are still alive six years later. That’s unusual: Most patients die within months. 16 patients were given an mRNA vaccine that trains the immune system to attack cancer cells.

Hybrid industrial processes, which like hybrid cars use a mix of electricity and combustion, are taking off. Industrial heating accounts for 20% of global energy demand — cement, steel, and glass are particularly heat-hungry — and is overwhelmingly fossil fuel-driven.

Chinese tech giant ByteDance’s profit fell more than 70% as the company leaned aggressively into AI, underscoring the financial challenges facing the country’s tech scene amid intensifying domestic competition.

Moscow cash-strapped despite oil windfall--Russia may sacrifice a crucial spending rule as the Ukraine war puts the econ under pressure. The budget rule dictates that when oil goes above a certain price, excess revenues are saved in a rainy-day fund for use in leaner times, to smooth out volatility.

Gazprom’s German unit eyes privatization--Despite the crunch, the natural gas supply in Europe remains healthy; the continent will get through the crisis “at a much higher price than previously anticipated.”

Supply disrups from the M East forcing Asia to focus on energy self-suffic. Mitsubishi began oper a power plant in Vietnam that only sources coal, helping Hanoi, which gets 80% of its crude from Kuwait, reduce dependence on the Gulf. “You’ve seen tsunamis; they go across the ocean very, very fast,”

The Iran war is fundamentally reshaping the oil industry, as geopolitical volatility rattles traders and derails expectations of a Middle East drilling boom.

Apple named John Ternus its new CEO, replacing Tim Cook, who led for 15 years. Ternus, 50, currently leads Apple’s hardware engineering, and had been the clear frontrunner--a “nice guy” with a “Cookian eye for cost-cutting.” Ternus, will take the helm of a comp widely seen as behind the curve on AI.