Thursday opens with a Supreme Court immigration and guns blitz, daylight rescue pushes across quake-hit Venezuela, and fresh PCE data showing inflation still running hot even as oil sinks back toward pre-war levels.
In a 6–3 decision, the Supreme Court held that federal law lets the government block asylum seekers from physically entering the U.S., keeping many from filing claims at the border—a major win for the Trump administration’s restrictive immigration agenda.
The Fed’s preferred inflation gauge hit a three-year high in May, with consumer prices up 4.1% year over year as gasoline and AI-driven semiconductor demand pushed costs higher, complicating midterm politics and keeping rate-cut hopes on ice.
The court cleared the way for mass deportations of Haitian and Syrian nationals who had been protected under Temporary Protected Status, with Justice Alito writing that presidents have unreviewable authority to end the program.
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani blocked Trump’s executive order to build a federal voter list and curb mail ballots for the midterms, ruling it unconstitutionally trespassed on powers reserved to states and Congress.
The Supreme Court sided 7–2 with Bayer-owned Monsanto, sharply limiting lawsuits claiming Roundup’s glyphosate ingredient causes cancer by finding the company did not have to warn about risks already regulated by the EPA.
In a 6–3 ruling, the court struck down Hawaii’s requirement that gun owners get permission before carrying firearms into stores and hotels, extending public carry rights onto private property open to the public unless owners explicitly ban guns.
After twin 7.2- and 7.5-magnitude quakes killed at least 164 people and injured more than 1,000, governments from Washington to Paris pledged search teams and aid; Marco Rubio said Trump ordered immediate U.S. rescue and medical deployments.
Venezuelan officials declared a state of emergency and rushed rescuers into La Guaira and Caracas as daylight searches continued for people trapped in collapsed towers, with volunteers joining medics at sites like Residencias Obelisco.
Brent crude slipped below pre-war levels near $72 a barrel as Hormuz traffic doubled and more tankers sailed with transponders on, easing fears of a prolonged energy shock and lifting European and U.S. equities.
England’s heatwave forced multiple NHS trusts into critical incidents as MRI scanners, cancer radiotherapy linacs and hospital IT failed in extreme temperatures, while overcrowded wards without air conditioning saw patients in heat above 35°C.
On the second anniversary of Kenya’s tax protests that left more than 80 dead, families laid flowers at barbed wire around parliament while police blocked roads and arrested demonstrators demanding accountability for 2024 killings.
CNBC traces how Pakistan parlayed its role hosting U.S.–Iran talks into diplomatic capital with Washington, positioning Islamabad as a regional peacemaker even as Gulf shipping and sanctions politics stay volatile.
Core PCE rose 3.4% annually in May—the hottest since October 2023—while headline hit 4.1%; spending and incomes still grew 0.7%, keeping markets focused on whether Kevin Warsh’s Fed will hike rather than cut.
Apple raised MacBook and iPad prices by up to $300, blaming an AI-driven memory crunch Tim Cook called a once-in-40-years flood; shares fell about 5% as analysts warn iPhone hikes could follow.
Jamie Dimon elevated Doug Petno and Troy Rohrbaugh to co-presidents running JPMorgan’s two biggest divisions, each granted $30 million retention stock, as consumer-banking chief Marianne Lake retired after 25 years.
Quanta’s Joy of Why explores Harvard mathematician Lauren Williams’s work on the positive Grassmannian—a shape that keeps surfacing in traffic models, wave physics and quantum scattering—and her effort to benchmark AI proof-writing.
OpenAI and Broadcom debut a custom inference chip as the hyperscalers race to verticalize hardware.
Anthropic alleges Alibaba ran a systematic campaign to distill Claude capabilities into rival models.
A browser port of Half-Life 2 shows how far WebAssembly and GPU tricks have pushed playable 3D on the web.
NVIDIA outlines a 45°C liquid-cooling design aimed at slashing data-center water use.
RubyLLM offers a unified Ruby API across major LLM providers for app developers.
A post argues the best technical blogging often just states what experts already assume.
Interconnects frames GLM-5.2 as a meaningful jump for open-weight agentic models.
LastPass discloses another breach, reviving password-manager trust questions.
Cloudflare rolls self-managed OAuth to every customer, not just enterprise tiers.
Qualcomm moves deeper into automotive and edge with a Modular acquisition.
An essay makes the case that Dostoyevsky reads easier when you stop treating him as homework.
LuaJIT 3.0 proposal adds syntax extensions the community has debated for years.
Bloomberg reports Ford rehired 350 engineers after an AI documentation push fell short.
Wikipedia’s UK contractor staff seek union recognition in a first for the platform’s workers.
A Show HN project indexes 18 years of Hacker News for trend-style topic search.