Trump touched down in Beijing for the first U.S.-China summit in nearly a decade, striking an unexpectedly warm tone with Xi even as Iran war tensions and trade disputes loomed over the talks, while back home Kevin Warsh was confirmed as Fed chair and the House approved year-round ethanol sales in a rare bipartisan moment.
Trump arrived in Beijing for the first U.S.-China summit in nine years, with trade, AI and the Iran war dominating talks between the two leaders.
The Senate confirmed Kevin Warsh as Federal Reserve chair, replacing Jerome Powell after a contentious vote that drew fierce partisan criticism.
Gov. Henry McMaster called a special session to redraw congressional maps, thrusting South Carolina into the nation’s redistricting wars.
Denise Powell prevailed in a tight Omaha primary for a Republican-held seat that could decide control of the House.
In a rare bipartisan vote, the House passed a bill allowing year-round sale of E15 gasoline despite objections from some Republican hard-liners and oil refiners.
A federal judge temporarily blocked Trump administration sanctions against Francesca Albanese, finding officials likely violated her rights after she criticized Israel.
Xi Jinping opened talks in Beijing by stressing partnership over rivalry, with Hormuz, Taiwan and rare earths topping the agenda.
BRICS foreign ministers gathered in India to coordinate their stance on the Iran war ahead of the bloc’s September summit.
A judge ruled the Trump administration likely broke the law by deporting a Colombian woman to Congo despite the country’s refusal to accept her.
A judge sided with an Indigenous group to throw out a separatist petition forcing a vote on Alberta seceding from Canada.
Students from Venezuela’s top universities blocked a major Caracas highway demanding the immediate release of political prisoners.
Families of ten Pakistani sailors held hostage by Somali pirates rallied in Karachi to pressure authorities for their release.
Windows gaming APIs are being reimplemented as Linux kernel features, narrowing the performance gap between platforms.
A guide to securing a free locality domain under the little-known US city.state.us geographic subdomain system.
A deep dive into the evolution of Google’s internal development tools from early Perforce days to modern monorepo IDEs.
Twin brothers in Florida wiped ninety-six government databases minutes after being fired from their municipal jobs.
Princeton broke a 133-year precedent by mandating proctoring for in-person exams, igniting fierce student opposition.
An essay arguing that modern software is trending toward the extensible, composable philosophy that Emacs pioneered.
Python’s core developers are reverting the incremental garbage collector introduced in 3.14 and 3.15 due to regressions.
A case that the US is winning AI not through research papers but through aggressive commercialization and product deployment.
A roguelike that procedurally renames itself every run, built from scratch in roughly four thousand lines of code.
The classic DOS artillery game Scorched Earth has been resurrected as a web-based multiplayer experience.
An intriguing chess puzzle discovered in an old book, with commenters debating its provenance and optimal solution.
A browser-based virtual workbench for exploring and emulating classic S-100 bus microcomputer systems.
YC-backed Ardent launches instant Postgres sandboxing for developers, promising zero-downtime schema isolation.
An unidentified leaker continues to drop unpatched Microsoft zero-day vulnerabilities at a steady pace.
A geometric navigation challenge: can you find a friend in a space using only relative distance and motion data?