Tuesday closed with Congress finally landing a bipartisan housing package, a Senate war-powers rebuke over Iran, and a progressive sweep in New York primaries—while courts blocked courthouse ICE arrests and the post-Starmer UK map kept shifting.
The House voted 358-32 to send a sweeping affordability package to Donald Trump, who is expected to sign it Wednesday at the Capitol after the Senate’s 85-5 passage Monday. Negotiators combined dozens of measures to streamline environmental reviews, curb corporate landlords buying single-family homes, and expand financing for modular housing and disaster recovery.
The Senate voted 50-48 to adopt a House-approved war powers resolution directing an end to U.S. hostilities with Iran, widening Republican splits over Donald Trump’s emerging deal as John Thune said Congress would likely vote again on any final agreement.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s endorsees swept three competitive House primaries, including two races where progressives ousted Democratic incumbents in safe November seats.
Judge P. Casey Pitts vacated nationwide ICE and Justice Department policies that expanded courthouse arrests and allowed up to 72-hour stays in short-term cells, calling the moves arbitrary and capricious.
Rear Adm. Nancy Lacore, ousted in Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon purge, won a Democratic runoff for South Carolina’s 1st District ahead of a fall matchup for Nancy Mace’s former seat.
Acting intelligence leadership reportedly dismissed dozens of staff in a rapid restructuring atop the national security bureaucracy.
Australia’s opposition leader sparked internal panic after framing multiculturalism as a problem to manage, with moderates distancing themselves as the party hunts for a post-election identity.
Bloomberg profiles a Finnish crisis-leadership course stress-testing elites for wartime governance as Nordic neighbors harden civilian readiness.
With Keir Starmer gone, Andy Burnham’s Manchester-centered growth pitch faces questions about whether devolved prosperity can scale without London’s fiscal tools.
Writers frame Europe’s lethal heatwave as part of a recurring heat-dome pattern straining grids, labor rules, and public health systems.
A Chinese disinfectant brand apologized and pulled a mocked ad after social media backlash over gendered messaging.
Chinese AI firm Zhipu is exploring a multibillion-dollar Hong Kong share sale after a meteoric post-listing run.
S&P Global said Alphabet Class A shares will replace Verizon in the Dow before Monday’s open, expanding mega-cap tech’s weight in the blue-chip index.
SpaceX raised 5 billion from senior notes after roughly 0 billion in orders, less than two weeks after its record IPO.
The CFTC sued Kentucky after state action against Kalshi and Polymarket, escalating the federal-state fight over event-contract platforms.
Volunteers relaunched preserved federal climate material at climate.us after climate.gov was folded into NOAA under the administration’s science order.
A new executive order accelerates post-quantum encryption deadlines to 2030-2031 for high-value federal systems as quantum threat estimates tighten.
A decades-long hand-drawn fantasy map project finally gets its due online.
FUTO ships a new on-device swipe-typing model aimed at privacy-first keyboards.
Armin Ronacher on the feedback loop closing as agents write more of the code we run.
A browser WYSIWYG editor for TikZ figures targets LaTeX users who hate raw coordinates.
A Google engineer says he was fired after building a popular open-source Workspace CLI.
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