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President Trump says the leader of Tren de Aragua has been killed in a U.S. military strike, a move that could expand the administration's campaign against transnational criminal groups. We'll also cover a showdown between Texas officials and the Big 12 over college sports authority, the SpaceX debut that pushed Elon Musk's fortune past the $1 trillion mark, rising tensions from Afghanistan to East Jerusalem, and the strategic waterway at the center of global energy markets.

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President Trump said Friday that a U.S. military strike killed Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, the man he called the "infamous leader" of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. It's a sharp escalation in Washington's pressure campaign against the group, which the administration designated a foreign terrorist organization earlier this year.

Tren de Aragua has been a fixture in Trump's immigration and crime rhetoric, the named villain behind deportations and aggressive enforcement. Confirmation of Guerrero Flores's death — and the legal basis for a military strike on a gang figure — will be the next questions Congress wants answered.

The Texas Attorney General's Office has warned the Big 12 that any sanctions against Texas Tech over the Brendan Sorsby case could trigger up to $200 million in antitrust exposure. The conference is weighing penalties tied to NIL and eligibility questions around the quarterback.

That puts the Big 12 in the now-familiar college sports squeeze: enforce its own rules and get sued, or do nothing and watch the rulebook dissolve. With state AGs openly intervening in conference discipline, the long-promised collapse of NCAA-style governance is happening one letter at a time.

Elon Musk's net worth crossed the $1 trillion mark after SpaceX surged following its highly anticipated stock market debut, according to wealth estimates tied to the company's market valuation. The jump reflects investor enthusiasm for SpaceX's satellite, launch, and space exploration businesses as the company begins life as a public firm.

The milestone underscores the growing influence of privately built space infrastructure on global markets and technology. Investors are now watching whether SpaceX can justify its valuation as public shareholders gain their first opportunity to weigh the company's long-term prospects.

Dozens of women were arrested and two people killed in rare public protests against Taliban rule, prompting the United Nations to express deep concern. Open dissent has been almost unheard of since 2021, which makes the demonstrations a real test of how far the regime will go to silence them.og walk in December 2022. No cause of death was disclosed by the royal family.

A mother in Kenya found her son dead two days after he went missing during protests outside a government Ebola quarantine facility in Nanyuki. Sylvester Muigai Ndung'u had left home to buy a school uniform; his death has deepened scrutiny over Kenya's Ebola outbreak response.

Israeli authorities are demolishing Palestinian homes in occupied East Jerusalem to make way for a new park, in a renewed wave of demolition orders targeting residential neighborhoods. Residents say entire family futures have been erased, with communities left with nowhere to rebuild.

The administration said it will resume asylum and immigration processing after a federal judge rebuked officials for failing to comply with an order issued last week. The reversal ends a pause that stranded applicants in limbo and reopens the debate over how quickly USCIS can ramp back up.

A federal judge extended a block on the DOJ's "anti-weaponization" fund and gave Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent a week to submit a sworn declaration confirming the fund isn't going forward. The order signals the court doesn't trust an injunction alone to stop the program.

A Trump push to reduce "statistical noise" could mean less public data from the Census Bureau for redistricting and other uses, as officials limit privacy-protection methods. Less granular data complicates everything from school funding formulas to congressional maps.

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Roku shares jumped 20% to close at $143.66 — a four-year high — after Bloomberg reported the streaming company is in talks to sell itself to an unnamed media buyer. The pop revives the long-running thesis that streaming hardware companies are acquisition bait for content giants chasing distribution.

Value stocks are trouncing growth equities this year, with investors betting earnings growth is finally broadening out beyond tech. Strategists are calling it a regime shift, not a blip — a meaningful change after a decade in which value almost always lost.

Switzerland votes Sunday on a nationalist SVP proposal to cap the country's population at 10 million — with passage likely voiding its Schengen Area membership and bilateral EU trade agreements. Major Swiss businesses warn the measure would severely damage economic growth; the vote is expected to be close.

A new study found GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic are associated with dramatically lower rates of substance use disorders, raising fresh questions about how the medications act on the brain's reward system. If the link holds up in trials, the world's most prescribed weight-loss drugs could become front-line addiction therapy.

Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical warns that AI is concentrating power in a handful of private actors making decisions for billions without democratic mandate, covering autonomous weapons, algorithmic governance, and the displacement of professions. A Vatican AI adviser writing in Nature argues the scientific community should treat it as a governance warning — not theology.

New evidence suggests Stonehenge's 6-tonne Altar Stone was carried to Salisbury Plain by a glacier during the Pleistocene — not transported by Bronze Age humans — solving one of the monument's longest-standing mysteries. Geologists believe the stone originated in Scotland and rode ice sheets southward over tens of thousands of years.

The United States opened its home World Cup with a 4–1 win over Paraguay in Inglewood — the most goals the USMNT has ever scored in a single World Cup match. Folarin Balogun netted twice in the first half, the first American to score multiple World Cup goals since Bert Patenaude in 1930.

ESPN rolled out a season-long ABS challenge tracker ranking batters, catchers, teams, and umpires by how often they win replay strike-zone challenges. It's quietly becoming the first public scorecard on which humans the robot umps trust least.

Brewers ace Jacob Misiorowski made MLB history by shutting down the Phillies on just 95 pitches while striking out 15 — the first 15-K "Maddux" ever recorded. That's the kind of single-game line that reorders Cy Young conversations overnight.

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David Beckham received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, flanked by Victoria, the Beckham kids, and Tom Cruise for good measure. The ceremony continues the slow, steady Americanization of a man who once wore an English football shirt for a living.

Gene Shalit, the mustachioed Today Show film critic known for his pun-packed reviews and gravity-defying mustache, died Friday at age 100. Shalit anchored NBC's "Critic's Corner" for four decades, inspiring parodies on Saturday Night Live, Family Guy, and SpongeBob SquarePants.

Olivia Rodrigo's "You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love" is a polished, solemn breakup chronicle that the Times says misses her signature adrenaline rush. Pop's reigning heartbreak chronicler is testing whether maturity sells as well as fury.

What it is: The Strait of Hormuz is a 21-mile-wide channel between Iran and Oman — the sole maritime exit for Persian Gulf oil, carrying roughly 20% of the world's daily crude supply and a third of all globally traded liquefied natural gas. Iran closed the strait at the outset of its war with the United States, triggering the worst oil supply shock since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

The detail: At the closure's peak, Brent crude surpassed $130 a barrel — levels unseen since 2022 — and major shipping companies rerouted vessels around Africa's Cape of Good Hope, adding two to three weeks to delivery times and billions in additional fuel and insurance costs. Pakistan mediated the diplomatic channel between Washington and Tehran, with PM Shehbaz Sharif announcing Friday that both sides had agreed on a final deal text.

Why it matters: Reopening the strait would restore the transit of 17 to 20 million barrels of crude per day, and analysts widely expect a sharp and near-immediate drop in global oil prices to follow any confirmed agreement. Lifting U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil exports would add millions more barrels to global supply — compounding downward price pressure at a time when energy costs have driven inflation across Asia, Europe, and the Americas for well over a year.

What to watch: Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei has not yet signed off on the agreed text — his approval is described by all three parties as the only remaining step before a formal announcement. A Geneva signing ceremony is under active discussion, and Trump's decision to cancel Friday's planned airstrikes is the clearest signal yet that Washington believes a deal is within reach.

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