A midair collision at an Idaho air show and stalled Iran peace talks framed a Sunday where military drama abroad and political setbacks at home dominated the headlines, even as the sports world crowned unlikely champions.
Two US Navy EA-18G Growlers collided during the Gunfighter Skies air show at Mountain Home Air Force Base in western Idaho; all four crew members safely ejected and were being evaluated by medical personnel. The base was locked down and the show canceled as investigators arrived at the scene.
Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled that $1 billion in proposed White House security funding—including money that could support Donald Trump’s planned $400 million ballroom—failed procedural rules, forcing Republicans to redraft. In Louisiana, Senator Bill Cassidy lost his primary after Trump intervened to oust him for voting to convict in the 2021 impeachment trial.
Amnesty International reported that state-sanctioned executions worldwide rose to a 44-year high in 2025, with killings in the US nearly doubling last year and soaring abroad.
Federal prosecutors in Spokane, Washington are trying three activists on conspiracy charges for allegedly conspiring to impede federal officers, a case legal experts call an aggressive stretch that tests the administration’s crackdown on protesters.
Taiwanese officials stressed the island’s strategic importance and defended US arms purchases after President Trump hinted that weapons sales to Taiwan could be used as leverage in negotiations with China.
President Trump and cabinet officials addressed a day-long Christian prayer event on the National Mall organized by Freedom 250, drawing explicit connections between the nation’s founding and Christianity as part of the administration’s narrative of a Christian nation.
President Trump warned Iran that the “clock is ticking” and “TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE” after rejecting Tehran’s counter-offer to US peace proposals as “garbage.” Iran reportedly demanded an end to the US naval blockade, a halt to Israeli attacks on Hezbollah, and sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz; Washington countered with five conditions including Iran operating only one nuclear site and transferring its enriched uranium stockpile to the US.
The World Health Organization declared a global health emergency over an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, with about 80 dead and no approved vaccine for this viral species.
Ukraine launched its biggest drone strike on Moscow in more than a year, killing at least three people, damaging residential buildings, and targeting an oil refinery as Kyiv intensifies deep strikes inside Russia.
Australia’s banned National Socialist Network (White Australia) filed a High Court challenge arguing the hate-group prohibition “burdens freedom of governmental and political communication” and violates the constitution by conferring punitive power without judicial review; the group had attempted to register as a political party before the ban.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers defended Labor’s proposed crackdowns on negative gearing, capital gains tax, and testamentary trusts, conceding the government took a “political hit” after a negative Newspoll response while blaming an “unhinged scare campaign” from partisan and commercial opponents.
China’s thermal power generation grew for a fourth straight month in April even as coal output fell, highlighting Beijing’s struggle to buffer its economy from the global energy crisis stemming from the war in Iran.
Mozilla pushes back hard against proposed UK restrictions on consumer VPNs.
A skeptical take arguing AI tools rarely speed up organizational workflows because process friction is human, not mechanical.
lcamtuf builds an elegant analog clock using salvaged voltmeters and a tiny microcontroller.
A GitHub project detailing the full conversion of a cheap ARM tablet into a usable Debian machine.
HN revisits the 1970 sci-fi thriller about an AI supercomputer taking control of nuclear weapons.
A gentle introduction to logic programming using Pokémon battles as running examples.
A semantic code-search tool optimized for LLM agent contexts.
Electrek reports Tesla is winding down its Solar Roof installations and shifting customers to conventional panels.
A FOSDEM talk reflecting on two decades of the distributed version control system.
A deep dive into the surprisingly sophisticated pressurized smoking lounge aboard the famous airship.
An open generative CAD framework for programmatic mechanical design.
A curated GitHub list of books and resources for GPU programming with CUDA.
Local Idaho news coverage of the Navy jet collision that dominated Sunday headlines.
IEEE Spectrum on how packet-switched telephony is keeping analog payphones alive in remote towns.
A look at metallic materials built from five or more principal elements in near-equal proportions.