Monday gave way to a messier after-dark picture: Tehran rejected Vance’s claim that nuclear inspectors were headed back, a Montreal hotel standoff left a police officer dead, and federal courts separately blocked Trump’s voter-screening database and his Los Angeles sanctuary lawsuit—while the Senate sent an 85–5 housing package to the House and tech shares absorbed another bruising session.
The 21st Century Road to Housing Act cleared the Senate 85–5 after months of negotiation, pairing permitting relief and affordable-housing pilots with limits on investor purchases of single-family homes; the package now goes to the House ahead of November’s midterms.
U.S. District Judge Fernando Olguin threw out the administration’s challenge to Los Angeles ordinances restricting local cooperation with federal immigration agents, though prosecutors may file an amended complaint; city attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto called it a validation of local control after last summer’s ICE raids.
A federal judge barred the government from using the SAVE citizenship-verification system to screen voter rolls, ruling the program unlawful and warning that erroneous matches could strip legitimate citizens of registration.
Several GOP senators told Semafor they want briefings on the Justice Department pact shielding Donald Trump and his businesses from IRS audits, with John Cornyn withholding support for attorney-general nominee Todd Blanche until he gets clarity while the administration retreats from a linked anti-weaponization fund.
President Trump escalated his dispute over National Mall pool renovations, threatening litigation against ABC while repeating claims that vandals damaged the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool.
Authorities in Chico, California, said two people were killed in a shooting at a public library.
Washington temporarily waived sanctions so Iran can sell oil in dollars after Swiss-mediated talks produced a 60-day roadmap, but Tehran denied JD Vance’s assertion that UN nuclear inspectors could return imminently.
Starmer said he will step down in the coming weeks, clearing a path for Manchester mayor Andy Burnham to seek Labour’s leadership.
Montreal police said a suspect armed with a long gun opened fire inside a downtown hotel, killing an officer before other officers returned fire and killed the gunman.
Greenspan, who chaired the Federal Reserve from 1987 through 2006, died Monday; admirers credited the longest U.S. boom on record while critics faulted his failure to curb the housing bubble before 2008.
Guardian data journalists mapped Starmer’s two-year tenure across NHS waiting lists, housing starts, and economic indicators.
Three students died and seven were wounded in a rare campus shooting in the central Philippines, prompting a bullying investigation.
NHTSA opened an investigation after a Model 3 struck a house in Katy, Texas, killing a 76-year-old resident.
Alphabet shares slid sharply as investors reacted to departures from Google DeepMind, including a Nobel-winning researcher heading to Anthropic.
SpaceX shares fell another sixteen percent, extending a multi-day selloff after its record IPO and follow-on bond sale.
Tata Electronics disclosed a cyberattack on a facility that manufactures roughly a third of Apple’s Indian iPhones; researchers warn trade secrets may have been exposed.
Valve living-room hardware finally ships, owning the front page.
Ottawa bets on new reactors for climate and grid goals.
ALPR data allegedly let police chiefs track women without warrants.
Guide to running GLM-5.2 on consumer hardware.
Tiny inpainting model claims giant-killer performance.
Paper reframes jailbreaks as role confusion.
Version control aimed at coding agents.
Energy giant backs Microsoft AI power in West Texas.
Prediction-market promo ethics under scrutiny.
Whimsical stereoscopic GIF post-mortem goes viral.
Developer argues memcached still beats trendy caches.
Ad-free indie logic puzzles.
Visual tour of Japan public pictograms.
Credentialism rant drives huge HN thread.
DIY open camera on Raspberry Pi Zero.