The day swung between breakthrough and violence — a US-Iran deal edged closer to reopening the Strait of Hormuz even as Russia unleashed one of its largest aerial assaults on Ukraine and a gunman opened fire near the White House.
President Trump instructed negotiators to take their time on an emerging deal that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and commit Iran to disposing of highly enriched uranium, even as GOP hawks like Ted Cruz called it a 'disastrous mistake.' The proposed 60-day ceasefire extension would leave thornier questions — including the timing of sanctions relief and the release of frozen Iranian assets — to later talks mediated by Pakistan.
A 21-year-old gunman already known to the Secret Service opened fire near the White House on Saturday and was killed by federal officers; President Trump was inside the residence at the time, and a bystander wounded in the exchange underwent surgery and is in stable condition.
Lionel Messi was substituted in the 73rd minute of Inter Miami's 6-4 win over Philadelphia, an unusual move that raised alarms just 23 days before Argentina's World Cup opener. The 38-year-old has played every full 90 minutes for Miami this season; while coach Tata Martino suggested fatigue, observers noted Messi went straight down the tunnel and was seen holding his leg.
Felix Rosenqvist snaked past David Malukas in the final 50 feet to win the Indianapolis 500 by 0.0233 seconds, eclipsing the 1992 record. The wild finish came after two late red flags, including a fiery crash involving Indy rookie Caio Collet and a wall brush by Mick Schumacher.
A crack appeared in an overheated chemical tank at a Southern California aerospace plant that has kept 50,000 people under evacuation orders, offering hope that pressure may vent before a catastrophic explosion.
As the Supreme Court prepares to announce rulings that could reshape his agenda, President Trump has alternated between bullying the justices and cozying up to them, creating unusual tension between the executive and judicial branches.
The royal commission into Australia's deadliest terror attack heard that two gunmen killed 10 people and wounded three police officers within seven minutes and 41 seconds at Bondi beach last December. Asio director general Mike Burgess testified that the national terrorism threat remains at the 'upper end of probable' and the environment is getting 'hotter,' with more permission for violence and little warning.
Russia launched one of the largest aerial assaults of the war on Sunday, hitting Kyiv with a hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile for only the third time and sending buildings rattling for hours across the capital.
An explosion at a coal mine in China's Shanxi province killed at least 82 people, the country's deadliest mining accident in years, sending coking coal futures jumping by the daily trading limit.
Rescue workers are searching for survivors after a building collapsed in the Philippines; thermal scans detected signs of breathing and heartbeats beneath the debris.
Huawei claimed a new pathway to produce advanced semiconductors without cutting-edge equipment, potentially narrowing its gap with TSMC and circumventing US sanctions that have choked its access to western chipmaking gear.
Oil prices retreated and Japan's stock market surged to a record high on hopes that a US-Iran agreement could end the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, even as negotiators cautioned the deal remained incomplete.
DeepSeek permanently cut V4 Pro API prices, sparking a massive 497-comment debate on race-to-the-bottom pricing in the LLM market.
A browser-based multitrack audio editor built entirely in open-source web tech, drawing comparisons to Audacity in the browser.
Epoch analysis shows memory now dominates AI chip costs, shifting the bottleneck from compute to bandwidth and storage.
Microsoft released the source for a pre-1.0 DOS build from 1981, filling in a missing chapter of PC history.
A native DeepSeek coding agent promising dramatically lower costs via aggressive caching of reasoning chains.
Threat actors compromised an internal Microsoft email account to blast spam from what appeared to be a trusted internal domain.
Academic study finds LLM coding agents degrade in reliability as project constraints accumulate over long sessions.
OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman sits down for a long-form interview on building the company and the future of AI agents.
A detailed build log for a distraction-free 'writerdeck' — a dedicated writing computer that strips away everything but text.
A comprehensive field guide for teams gradually porting Go services to Rust without rewriting everything at once.
Researchers demonstrated that a long-held assumption about wing lift distribution is wrong, with implications for aircraft design.
Jujutsu version control promises to eliminate the tedious ceremony of Git while preserving its power.
An obsessive deep-dive into hand-crafting a single data visualization, exploring every axis and label as a design problem.
The updated CBP directive on electronic device border searches drew heavy discussion on privacy and forensic practices.
AMD's decision to remove Linux support from the free version of Vivado sparked outrage among hobbyist FPGA developers.