A Russian frigate fired flares at a Danish Fennec helicopter during a routine tracking mission in the Baltic, prompting Copenhagen to summon Moscow's ambassador. The episode landed the same day NATO downed a drone over Lithuania.
The Supreme Court on Monday blocked the Trump administration from enforcing new mail-ballot rules just 50 days before the midterms, siding with states and voting-rights groups that sued to preserve the existing system.
The yield on 10-year Treasury bonds climbed to 5% for the first time in nearly three years as oil surged past $108 a barrel. The move sets up a difficult decision for the Federal Reserve this week.
Trump dismissed AI risk warnings from industry executives as a "hoax" and said the only guardrails needed were a strong president, as Anthropic's Jack Clark called for a mandatory kill switch.
A federal judge ruled the Trump administration's plan to slash FEMA staffing by 50% was unlawful, citing a 2006 statute Congress wrote after Hurricane Katrina.
Drone attacks launched from Iraqi soil forced Saudi Arabia to shut its east-west crude pipeline, pushing oil above $108 a barrel as Houthi forces widened their grip on a critical Red Sea chokepoint.
A Russian drone struck a train near Ukraine's border with Poland shortly after a group of visiting European dignitaries passed through the area. No one was hurt, but officials debated whether the timing signaled deliberate escalation.
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