A suspected hate-crime shooting at a San Diego mosque, a $1.7 billion Justice Department fund for political allies, and a widening Ebola emergency in Central Africa defined a day that also saw President Trump threaten and then shelve planned strikes on Iran.
Five people died, including two teen suspects who authorities say died by self-inflicted gunshot wounds, after a suspected hate-crime shooting at San Diego’s Islamic Center that came amid rising reports of Islamophobia nationwide.
The Justice Department created a loosely controlled $1.7 billion fund to compensate prosecuted political allies as it dismissed a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS, drawing Democratic condemnation as an unaccountable slush fund that funnels taxpayer dollars to the president’s backers.
The Sandy fire in Simi Valley, California, exploded to 1,364 acres on Monday, forcing mandatory evacuations for more than 29,000 residents and destroying at least one home amid gusty Santa Ana winds. Approximately 500 firefighters, three air tankers and six helicopters were battling the blaze, which officials warned was still threatening additional structures into the evening.
A Brookings Institution analysis estimated that the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has produced more than 100,000 family separations, a figure the report suggests is an undercount because detained parents are not being asked about or are concealing their U.S.-born children.
The Colorado Supreme Court ordered Children’s Hospital Colorado to resume hormone therapy and puberty blockers for transgender youths, reversing the hospital’s suspension of care under pressure from the Trump administration’s threat to withhold federal funding.
Billie Jean King, 82, graduated from California State University, Los Angeles on Monday, completing the history degree she abandoned in 1964 to pursue a tennis career that yielded 39 Grand Slam titles and a lifetime of advocacy for gender and pay equity. King, the first in her immediate family to graduate college, told the commencement crowd she had felt the sting of discrimination at age 12 and had carried that purpose through six decades.
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed at least 118 people and sickened more than 390 across a widening geographic area, prompting the World Health Organization to declare an international emergency for the Bundibugyo strain. Ugandan officials have also confirmed two cases and one death across the border, heightening fears of regional spread as health workers struggle to contain the virus.
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in China on Tuesday for his second meeting with Xi Jinping in less than a year, hailing the deepening Moscow-Beijing partnership as a stabilising force in world affairs and insisting the two powers do not seek to align against any nation. The visit comes as the two leaders prepare to discuss a massive new gas project and coordinate their positions on the Iran war and the global economy.
According to the Financial Times, Chinese President Xi Jinping told Donald Trump that Vladimir Putin might regret his invasion of Ukraine, a rare candid assessment from Beijing that also included Trump’s suggestion that the three leaders cooperate against the International Criminal Court.
President Trump warned Taiwan against pursuing formal independence, calling it a red line for China, even as Taipei’s leadership maintains that the self-governing island already possesses the attributes of sovereignty and has no need to declare what it already is.
Israeli commandos boarded several vessels of the Global Sumud flotilla near Cyprus as the activist fleet attempted to breach the maritime blockade of Gaza, according to live broadcasts from the boats and statements from organizers.
Standard Chartered announced plans to eliminate nearly 8,000 jobs under chief executive Bill Winters’ new strategy, one of the largest banking layoffs driven partly by escalating automation and AI adoption at the Asia-focused lender.
A judge rejected Musk’s bid to block OpenAI’s for-profit conversion, ruling the claims lacked merit.
A markdown-native knowledge base pitched as a lightweight, open-source alternative to Obsidian.
A deep look at how Bitwarden has been quietly rebuilding its architecture and expanding beyond password management.
Anthropic buys the SDK and MCP-server platform that has powered its own developer tooling from day one.
A startup blocked automated AI pull-request spam by validating Git commit author flags instead of adding CAPTCHAs.
An experiment in fully automated FM radio, where LLMs pick songs, read news, and host shows in real time.
Iran is underwriting shipping through the Hormuz Strait with Bitcoin-backed policies, bypassing Western sanctions as war risk premiums soar.
Cloudflare’s threat-intelligence team dissects the Mythos ransomware group and what its tactics reveal about the cyber frontline.
The FBI is soliciting bids for a contract that would give it real-time, nationwide access to private license-plate-reader databases.
A software KVM setup that lets you seamlessly share one monitor, keyboard and mouse between Mac and PC without hardware switches.
The WSJ reports on a growing cultural and political backlash against AI adoption across American industries and institutions.
Simon Willison’s compressed recap of every major model release, benchmark shift and product launch since late 2025.
A side-by-side reference mapping Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure and Emacs Lisp syntax and semantics.
A nostalgic revisit of the viral 2016 browser game that simply asks you to click a button and then judges your technique.
The Unix historian and author Peter Salus, a foundational chronicler of early computing culture, has died.