Saturday closed with Vance en route to Geneva and Iran’s delegation already on the ground, even as Hormuz was declared shut again and Lebanon’s ceasefire frayed—while at home a Boyle Heights warehouse fire forced an emergency declaration and the Grand Canyon warned of lethal heat after three hikers died.
Park officials issued an extreme heat watch for Monday–Tuesday after a surge of heat-related rescues and the deaths of two hikers, ages 67 and 68, on the North Kaibab Trail; forecasters warn inner-canyon temperatures could top 110°F and urge avoiding midday hikes.
Karen Bass invoked emergency powers Saturday to keep air-quality relief and firefighting resources flowing to a Boyle Heights cold-storage blaze that began Wednesday, after shelter-in-place orders over hazardous smoke; fire officials say the chemical phase is contained but biohazard work continues.
Trump said federal authorities made “multiple arrests” over alleged vandalism as the $14 million Reflecting Pool rehab turned from flag-blue paint to peeling green algae; NPS workers were seen vacuuming the basin Saturday while Trump blamed prior neglect without detailing evidence for the arrests.
A Justice Department memo narrowing how it enforces disability civil-rights law has advocates warning that states could roll back community-based services and push people back into institutions; NPR reports groups are mobilizing legal challenges and urging Congress to clarify protections.
Body-camera video shows officers responding to a mistaken “screaming” call—actually Knicks fans celebrating—then shooting Marie Marseille’s golden Saint Bernard doodle in a Canoga Park hallway after it barked at the door; Marseille had tried to hold the dog inside as an officer drew his pistol.
Collin County released body-cam and surveillance footage from the April 2025 Frisco meet showing Karmelo Anthony running from the bleachers after fatally stabbing Austin Metcalf; Anthony was convicted of murder June 10 and sentenced to 35 years after a jury rejected his self-defense claim.
Direct US–Iran negotiations are still scheduled for Sunday even as Iran’s military claimed Hormuz was closed over Israeli strikes in Lebanon; the US disputed the closure, Vance left Washington late Saturday, and an Iranian delegation including the foreign minister is already in Switzerland.
Live coverage tracks Vance’s trip as Israeli attacks reportedly killed 16 in Lebanon and hardliners in Tehran press Pezeshkian over the interim US deal; Khamenei’s reservations have sharpened internal debate over how much to concede on nuclear and ceasefire terms.
Al Jazeera footage shows Iran’s negotiating team touching down ahead of Sunday’s round with Washington, framing the talks as the next test of whether the fragile US–Iran truce can survive renewed Hormuz threats and cross-border fire.
Police Scotland charged a 36-year-old man after counter-terrorism officers joined a Friday-night probe into five injuries, including two worshippers attacked near Broomhouse mosque; authorities say there is no ongoing public threat.
Ahmed Wishah died in a strike on a house in Bureij refugee camp; Al Jazeera condemned the killing as part of a pattern of targeting journalists, while the IDF said Wishah was a “Hamas terrorist” without immediately providing evidence.
Exit polls suggest Swiss voters rejected a ballot measure that would have codified stricter military neutrality, a result that could keep Bern more open to security cooperation with Europe even as Geneva hosts the US–Iran talks.
Oil traders and shipping desks watched Tehran’s renewed Hormuz closure claim as Vance flew to negotiations; CNBC walks through how a disputed strait shutdown could whipsaw energy markets even if tanker traffic continues.
Alex Reisner published searchable indexes of four massive music datasets—some with millions of tracks—used in AI training, with Google and Stability among firms that have acknowledged using similar corpora in research.
From 2027 the UK plans facial age-estimation for asylum seekers lacking documents, despite internal tests showing frequent misclassification that could land children in adult detention; reporting draws on a government evaluation obtained by WIRED and partners.
CNBC argues ultralow fares are colliding with higher labor, fuel, and aircraft costs, squeezing Spirit-style carriers and pushing summer travelers toward fewer, pricier seats on legacy airlines.
A viral essay cataloguing how obscure web prose gets wholesale copied into bestsellers.
SMPTE dropped paywalls on its technical standards, putting broadcast specs online for free.
Reverse-engineering F-15 Strike Eagle II needs volunteers willing to crash-test the DOS build.
Cloudflare’s experiment hands AI agents disposable accounts with scoped API access.
UHF X11 ports X11 to visionOS so X apps can run on Apple Vision Pro headsets.
StartupWiki pitches itself as a free, community Crunchbase for early-stage company data.
A developer’s library card unlocked a sewing machine—and a hobby infrastructure rant.
Bun’s open PR adds shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore, stirring JSC vs V8 debate.
South Korea’s arms exports are scaling faster than its domestic politics expected.
Linux finally deleted strncpy after years of patches and security nagging.
Loupe on iOS visualizes how much native apps can see on your phone.
Tesco is suing VMware over a 2025 contract dispute tied to Broadcom’s licensing shift.
TownSquare adds a lightweight presence layer so sites can see who’s browsing live.
Brazil’s civil-defense cell broadcast misfired an unauthorized emergency alert nationwide.
A tool fakes scanned-paper aesthetics for PDFs via CLI or in-browser WASM.