Monday sharpened the post-Starmer scramble as Andy Burnham took a Westminster seat, a federal judge blocked subpoenas aimed at Tim Walz, and U.S.–Iran negotiators paired a partial oil-sanctions reprieve with talk of nuclear inspectors returning this week.
Greenspan chaired the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006 under four presidents and was credited with guiding the pre-2008 expansion; the Fed said he helped build credibility the institution still relies on, while his wife Andrea Mitchell said he died of Parkinson’s complications.
In a 6-3 decision the justices restored Pedro Hernandez’s conviction for the 1979 disappearance of six-year-old Etan Patz in Manhattan, reversing a Second Circuit finding that the trial judge mishandled a jury question about Hernandez’s confessions.
The court let stand an Arkansas policy ending private lawsuits to enforce Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, a mechanism civil-rights groups had used to challenge maps and election rules in multiple states.
Judge Patrick Schlitz unsealed a ruling blocking subpoenas to Tim Walz, Keith Ellison, Jacob Frey and other Minnesota officials, writing the Justice Department was using the grand jury to harass opponents of the federal immigration crackdown rather than pursue a credible criminal case.
Alberto Carvalho stepped down five months after FBI searches of his home and LA Unified headquarters; authorities have not detailed the investigation or charged him, and acting superintendent Andrés Chait will remain in place while the board seeks a permanent leader.
Research in Nature Climate Change finds many countries now endure one to two extra months of dangerous heat-stress days compared with the 1970s, with previously cooler regions beginning to experience the same thresholds as the planet warms.
Starmer said he accepted his parliamentary party’s verdict that he should not lead Labour into the next election, after poor local results and Reform UK’s rise; analysts widely expect Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham to succeed him.
Burnham took the Commons oath on Monday, clearing the way for a summer leadership contest Labour hopes will conclude before Parliament returns in September while Starmer remains caretaker prime minister.
Following Swiss-hosted talks mediated by Qatar and Pakistan, Tehran signaled it will readmit IAEA monitors and discussed de-escalation with Lebanon as JD Vance said teams left behind in Switzerland would keep negotiating technical details.
Vance downplayed a viral clip of Iran’s foreign minister ignoring him, saying negotiators then talked for hours and that progress on inspectors and Hormuz transit could let oil markets price in a longer truce.
Bloomberg reports the Treasury license gives buyers a short window to lift Iranian crude while diplomats test whether Tehran will keep the Strait of Hormuz open toll-free for sixty days under the emerging framework.
Pretoria plans to spotlight collapsing global health aid at a UN HIV/AIDS session as Washington moves to wind down PEPFAR, threatening treatment continuity for the world’s largest HIV-positive population.
A Treasury license authorizes Iranian crude production and sales through August 21, with Secretary Scott Bessent citing Tehran’s commitments on Hormuz transit and nuclear inspections as conditions for pausing sanctions.
Days after its blockbuster listing, SpaceX launched an investment-grade bond offering and revealed a cash hoard above $100 billion even as its newly public shares fell for a third straight session.
Google parent Alphabet slid about 7% after Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer joined OpenAI and AlphaFold co-creator John Jumper left for Anthropic, amplifying fears that commoditized models will punish heavy AI capex.
Will Cathcart is exiting after seven years leading WhatsApp; Meta will hand the role to CRED founder Kunal Shah as it pushes payments and business messaging in growth markets.
Deno’s new desktop runtime wraps web apps as installable native shells.
HashiCorp’s Mitchell Hashimoto backs the Zig ecosystem with another major donation.
A playful engineering post on accidentally building stereo wigglegram cameras.
Benchmark write-up pits Zhipu’s GLM 5.2 against Anthropic’s Opus on real coding workloads.
OpenAI Codex users warn a logging defect can silently consume terabytes of disk.
Developer essay makes the case for dropping closed APIs for capable open-weight stacks.
Valve’s Steam Machine reservation page ignites debate on PC-console pricing.
Critique alleges Claude Code’s visible chain-of-thought strings are not genuine model reasoning.
HN threads debate Greenspan’s legacy after the former Fed chair’s death at 100.
Researchers claim a tiny inpainting model rivals far larger diffusion systems.
Science reports NSF is cutting core research to fund a White House-aligned tech push.
DHL plans wind-assisted cargo ships to cut emissions on long-haul freight lanes.