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Trump admin puts in writing to courts that $1.8B ‘anti-weaponization’ fund is dead
CNN: The Justice Department told two federal judges on Friday that cases challenging President Donald Trump’s “anti-weaponization fund”…
June 5, 2026
Mexico starting to push back against Trump’s pressure campaign
Wall Street Journal: “An event of this magnitude is unprecedented in the history of our bilateral relationship,” Sheinbaum…
June 5, 2026
Google to pay SpaceX $920 million a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers
CNBC: Days before a planned IPO that’s expected to raise record sums of cash, SpaceX has inked a…
June 5, 2026
US journalist pleads guilty to working as China’s agent
BBC: Thomas Weir Pauken II, 50, “admitted to being part of a conspiracy to obtain sensitive information from…
June 5, 2026
One year on, Italy still waiting for answers from Paragon over spyware scandal
Wired: In 2025, Graphite spyware was detected on the phones of Italian journalists and activists. Prosecutors have not…
June 5, 2026
AI upending one of Finance’s cushiest jobs
Bloomberg: Wealth managers, who can make upwards of $500,000, are confronting a chatbot reckoning. …A growing share of…
June 5, 2026
‘60 Minutes’ stars will stay because they don’t want show to ‘die’
New York Times: Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker and Jon Wertheim said on Friday in an email to the…
June 5, 2026
Trump says US may take equity stakes in AI companies
Financial Times: The US may take equity stakes in AI companies such as OpenAI so that “American people…
June 5, 2026
Trump urges ‘less shackled’ Pulte to fire intelligence-community employees
Wall Street Journal: In an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Friday, Trump said he has privately…
June 5, 2026
Patel said to have fired five F.B.I. analysts over memo on Catholic extremists
New York Times: The Trump administration on Friday fired five F.B.I. employees tied to a 2023 internal intelligence…
June 5, 2026
From cow-milking robots to weed-zapping lasers, farmers embracing A.I.
New York Times: …The equipment is expensive, and learning to use it takes time. It also requires accepting…
June 5, 2026
Trump lawyers refuse to reveal financial information to BBC in defamation case
The Guardian: The US president’s lawyers accused the BBC of a “fishing expedition”, according to court filings, after…
June 5, 2026
Ex-CIA official accused of stashing $40m in gold bars is ‘master manipulator’, prosecutors say
BBC: At a hearing in Virginia on Friday, government lawyers said Rush “cannot be trusted” and was “fully…
June 5, 2026
Palantir wins £9M contract to run UK firearms licensing: CIA-backed biz to hold gun, bomb, and poison records
The Register: The US spy-tech biz will also handle Home Office licensing for explosives, explosive precursors, and poisons.…
June 5, 2026
Meet SpaceX employees who are about to become overnight millionaires
Wall Street Journal: Many current and former staffers have stakes valued at millions of dollars and will be…
June 5, 2026
Pentagon likely to cancel missile sale to Germany over fears of Russia
Politico: U.S. officials fear Moscow will retaliate if the Trump administration follows through on the effort to deploy…
June 5, 2026
‘Unbelievable how accurate’: How paid influencers hype Polymarket’s odds
Politico: At least 20 of the content creators identified by POLITICO promoted Polymarket on social media after they…
June 5, 2026
Chinese, HK investors banned from SpaceX IPO on security grounds
Bloomberg: The lead banks overseeing the deal have told other banks in the underwriting syndicate not to permit…
June 5, 2026
Trump officials planned to mark 2.7 million living people as dead, whistleblower claims
Washington Post: A former Social Security executive said the plan, which was not carried out, would have used…
June 5, 2026
China builds economic fortress as global tensions rise
New York Times: Beijing says the changes are needed for national security, but they could complicate efforts by…
June 5, 2026