President Trump declared he is in “no hurry” to end the Iran war as core objectives remain unfulfilled, while at home a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund drew its first major lawsuit from January 6 officers and the libertarian wing of the Republican Party lost its last House holdout in Kentucky.
Rep. Thomas Massie lost his Kentucky primary, ending the last libertarian Republican House career born from the Tea Party era. His defeat to Trump-backed challenger Ed Gallrein came after breaking with the president over deficit spending and the Epstein files, leaving Sen. Rand Paul as the party’s remaining libertarian voice.
Metropolitan Police officer Daniel Hodges and former Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn sued to block Jan. 6 rioters from receiving payouts from Trump’s new $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund,” calling it “the most brazen act of presidential corruption this century” and an illegal slush fund that encourages political violence.
Tuesday’s primaries saw socialist Chris Rabb surge to victory in Philadelphia’s deep-blue 3rd District with help from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, while Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s swing-seat endorsements all won despite Republican hopes for anti-establishment upsets.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries backed the NAACP’s “Out of Bounds” campaign urging Black athletes to boycott public universities in eight Southern states that weakened the Voting Rights Act, specifically targeting the SEC’s $1.48 billion athletic empire until “fair congressional maps” are restored.
The IRS had argued the Trump Organization tried to claim the same losses twice, but the president dismissed the audit as a “disgrace” and the penalty evaporated as part of a broader settlement.
Larry Bushart won an $835,000 settlement from a Tennessee sheriff who jailed him for 37 days over a social media post about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, claiming the post would incite hysteria.
President Trump said he is in “no hurry” to end the Iran war despite core objectives remaining unfulfilled, including Iran’s buried uranium stockpile and continued proxy support for Hezbollah and the Houthis. Meanwhile, Israeli far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir sparked international condemnation from Ireland and Italy by posting a video mocking detained Gaza aid flotilla activists, and Israel’s Knesset advanced a bill to dissolve parliament ahead of possible early elections.
A combination of $130 oil and 5.5% long-term Treasury yields could be the pin prick that pops the AI bubble, threatening the cheap-capital engine that has fueled data-center expansion.
President Trump said he would speak to Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te as his administration considers a $14 billion weapons sale to the self-governing island.
Three vessels bound for China and South Korea are carrying 6 million barrels of crude oil through the volatile Strait of Hormuz as Iran maintains its blockade on “hostile” nations.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the Ebola outbreak poses a high regional risk but low global threat, though a vaccine could take nine months to develop as the death toll continues to rise.
James Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch’s second son, agreed to acquire roughly half of Vox Media’s assets including New York Magazine in the biggest deal since his family’s succession dispute was resolved.
Google is rolling out a redesigned search box with a larger input field, new shortcut chips, and AI-generated overviews pushed higher on the page — sparking the usual angst about UI churn and AI clutter.
Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, a mid-tier model pitched as faster and cheaper than Pro while beating Claude 3.5 Sonnet on several benchmarks — though HN commenters are waiting for independent evals.
A new European payment network backed by dozens of banks aims to move 130 million users off Visa and Mastercard rails by 2026, framing itself as a sovereignty play against US card duopoly.
A detailed tour through modern C compilers showing how aggressive optimizations and unclear standards turn seemingly innocent code into undefined behavior that can silently break security assumptions.
A browser-based museum lets visitors boot and interact with classic operating systems from MS-DOS to OS/2 to BeOS, running emulated in WebAssembly with period-accurate hardware specs.
A lightweight guardrails framework for small language models claims to dramatically improve agentic task reliability by constraining generation paths rather than scaling model size.
Human rights group ALQST says Meta has restricted or removed accounts documenting abuses in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, raising questions about content moderation double standards in Gulf markets.
An open-source tool strips SynthID and other AI watermarks from generated images, arriving the same week OpenAI announced it would adopt Google’s watermarking standard.
OpenAI is integrating Google’s SynthID watermark into DALL·E 3 outputs and releasing a verification tool, attempting to standardize provenance marking across the generative-image ecosystem.
Google announced it is shutting down the Gemini CLI on June 18, pushing developers toward the newer Gemini API and Spark tools introduced at I/O.
Graduating students at multiple universities booed commencement speakers who praised AI’s inevitability, signaling a campus backlash against uncritical tech boosterism.
Japan’s cedar-planting campaign from the 1950s — intended to rebuild post-war timber stocks — created vast pollen forests that now afflict millions with severe seasonal allergies.
A community index maps every FiveThirtyEight article to its archived copy after Disney shut down the standalone site and began redirecting URLs to ESPN.
A First Amendment lawsuit yielded an $835,000 settlement for a Tennessee man jailed over a Facebook post about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
The shadow library Anna’s Archive lost a $19.5 million default judgment in a US court and faces a global domain-takedown order, though operators say mirrors will keep the collection alive.