Russian agents lure African men into the Ukraine war with false job promises, while a Texas trial tests Donald Trump’s "antifa" domestic terror designation. In Kansas, transgender residents must surrender licenses under a new GOP law. Trump considers a Gaza "stablecoin" and pushes for a warrantless FISA Section 702 extension. Energy Secretary Chris Wright announces a $26.5 billion loan for Georgia and Alabama, while SCOTUS reviews the Boulder climate lawsuit. A hacker uses Anthropic’s Claude to breach Mexican government data, and the Pentagon threatens the company for restricted AI access. Google’s Gemini outpaces Apple’s Siri on the Pixel 10, and a Virginia judge blocks the DOJ from searching a Washington Post reporter's devices. Texas A&M cancels courses under new diversity restrictions, and H5N1 avian flu is detected in California elephant seals.

Sean Penn rescues man from Bolivian prison. DOJ reportedly removes Trump files from Epstein records. Texas "Antifa" terrorism trial begins in Texas. Jasmine Crockett escalates a "war on the press." Discord severs ties with Peter Thiel-backed Persona. Anthropic abandons its flagship AI safety pledge. Russia launches a terror probe into Telegram's Pavel Durov.

SCOTUS hears the Suncor climate liability case, the Pentagon inks a deal with Grok AI, a top general warns Trump that Iran attack risks munition shortages, French officials restrict Jared Dad Kushner’s diplomatic access, a new wave of mass deportations, Kristi Noem caught fabricating "cannibal" deportee story, a mapping tool to track Justice Department weaponization, a grand jury rejects Jeanine Pirro’s attempts to indict Democratic lawmakers, and an ICE agent accidentally shoots a hotel bed in Minnesota. Cybertruck officially more dangerous than the Pinto.

New poll shows majority oppose Trump’s deportation campaign, Texas activists face a federal "antifa terror" trial, Elon Musk reprimanded for illegal voter outreach, death of "El Mencho" sparks violence, grooming at the Interlochen Center for the Arts, OpenAI, Persona, and the U.S. government accused of building an "identity surveillance machine," and biohackers push nicotine as "wellness."

Voters want higher taxes on billionaires, white supremacists plan segregated communities, Iran war plans, Texas "Antifa" trial tests the government's power to label protesters as domestic terrorists, Trump invokes the Defense Production Act for pesticides. Department of Homeland Security manages $22 billion in seized crypto via outdated spreadsheets.

A federal tool flags citizens as noncitizens in Texas, while a new poll shows 54% of voters support Democratic demands for ICE reforms. The U.S. oil blockade grinds life in Cuba to a halt, and Kim Prost, an International Criminal Court judge, is locked out of her daily life by U.S. sanctions. Attorney General Pam Bondi admits to a secret domestic terrorist list, and federal agents in Minnesota seize phones and documents from protesters without charges. Homeland Security expands "masked engagement" surveillance on social media, while the FBI targets climate activists at their homes. Trump scraps the EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding, and the New York Fed reports that U.S. consumers are shouldering 90% of tariff costs. Google fulfills ICE subpoenas for student journalists' data, and the Pentagon pushes OpenAI to deploy tools on classified networks. Spotify developers stop writing code due to AI, and the U.S. smuggles Starlink terminals into Iran. Gender studies programs shut down across the U.S., Nick Fuentes calls women "political enemies," and Kristi Noem faces backlash for "chaos" inside the DHS.