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A major shift in the war in Ukraine could change how Western weapons are built and delivered. Back home, a new U.S. passport is making headlines, while one World Cup goal was enough to send Google Search to the busiest moment in its history. Here's what you need to know before your day gets going.

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Trump told reporters at the NATO summit that Ukraine will be given a license to produce its own Patriot air-defense missiles, in a shift meant to close the gap between US production lead times and Ukrainian battlefield attrition. Patriots are highly effective against Russia's ballistic missiles, but their production cycle runs years and has been a chokepoint in every allied conversation about air defense.

Trump met separately with Zelensky at the summit to close the deal, and the two leaders described the arrangement as a technology-transfer program run through a US prime contractor. Details on which components will still ship from the US and which will be produced inside Ukraine remain under negotiation.

The International Criminal Court told the BBC it has achieved a breakthrough in its investigation of atrocities committed in Darfur over the past three years, in the first real forward movement on the Sudan file since the war reopened. Chief prosecutor's team confirmed a set of sealed arrest warrants and did not name the individuals but indicated the group includes senior military and paramilitary figures.

Announcement lands as El-Obeid and other Sudanese cities continue under intense drone bombardment, and coincides with donor pressure for accountability tied to the humanitarian corridor. UN officials say the ICC's new evidence base will factor into pending sanctions decisions at the Security Council.

The White House is asking the US Supreme Court to reconsider its birthright-citizenship ruling from last week, arguing new legal grounds that the court did not fully consider in oral argument. The petition is a long-shot procedural bid to reopen a case the high court unusually spoke on so decisively.

Descendants of Dred Scott and Chief Justice Roger Taney — who had used the anniversary week to press for reconciliation — reissued statements defending the ruling. Constitutional scholars flagged that a rehearing petition of this scale is extraordinarily rare and traditionally denied without a written opinion.

Canadian PM Mark Carney arrived in Saudi Arabia, the first visit by a Canadian leader in 26 years. Carney is chasing fresh trade and investment ties as friction with Washington deepens. His delegation is courting Gulf capital for energy and infrastructure projects back home.

South Korea's Supreme Court upheld a prison sentence for former President Yoon Suk Yeol. Judges delivered the first binding verdict tied to his short-lived martial law decree. Yoon's allies vowed to fight on, but his political comeback now looks all but closed.

Australia agreed to sell uranium to India, ending a diplomatic stalemate that lasted years. Canberra cast the deal as a milestone in warming ties with New Delhi. Critics at home questioned safeguards, given India's refusal to sign the nonproliferation treaty.

The State Department is issuing new US passports featuring an image of President Trump, available only in person and by appointment at the Washington Passport Agency. Standard passports without the image remain available through normal channels for travelers who'd rather skip the collector's edition.

Aviation is soaring in the US with record passenger numbers, but a generation of mechanics is set to leave the workforce, and the industry is short on new graduates to fill the gap. FAA is running an emergency review of certification pipelines and technical-college partnerships.

A DEA agent fatally shot a man while serving a drug warrant at a Memphis hotel. State investigators opened a probe into the killing, the fourth tied to the unit since September. Officials offered conflicting accounts of whether the man had pointed a weapon.

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Delta is launching basic business class fares that ditch lounge access and seat selection while keeping the lie-flat seat. It's the basic economy playbook moving upstream, and a signal that premium-cabin bundling is the next revenue frontier.

Manhattan's office-leasing market posted its strongest quarterly gains in years, in a rebound investors had stopped assuming would arrive. Financial-services tenants led the demand, with law firms and AI startups filling the second and third slots of quarterly signings.

AstraZeneca posted trial data on a new cardiovascular therapy that beat several analyst-modeled endpoints and could reshape the company's late-stage pipeline. Shares moved on the read-through, with Wall Street re-modeling AstraZeneca's exposure to a heart-drug category dominated so far by Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk.

Google Search hit its busiest moment ever right after Argentina's winning World Cup goal. Executives said queries per second reached an all-time global peak. The spike showed how live sport still concentrates the world's attention like nothing else.

Scientists have discovered that young neurons routinely snap and rapidly repair their own DNA as they migrate through developing brain tissue. The finding rewrites part of the textbook and could reshape research into disorders where that repair machinery fails.

Meta will invest $9 billion in Alberta on its largest AI data center outside the United States. Gas-fired power will feed a gigawatt of capacity, enough to run 750,000 homes. Critics warned that the project deepens Big Tech's already enormous energy and climate footprint.

Tim Hardaway Jr. called the Miami Heat deal his "prayers answered" after months of a stalled free-agent market for veteran wings. Deal reunites him with an organizational culture he grew up around through his father's playing career.

Mark Cuban accused the new Mavericks ownership of freezing him out of a proposed move that Cuban had championed on the operations side. Cuban still owns a minority stake and says he was cut out of a decision the sales agreement had reserved for his input.

The quarterfinal draw is set after the round of 16 wrapped up with Norway's stunner over Brazil and Spain's late escape past Portugal. Preview lays out the odds and matchups for Argentina, Belgium, England, France, Morocco, Norway, Spain, and Switzerland.

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A US man was sentenced in a rare-book theft ring that checked out centuries-old manuscripts from a California university library and returned convincing fakes in their place. Case unwound through art-crime investigators piecing together forensic differences that only rare-book librarians would have caught.

Justin Baldoni broke two years of silence over his bruising legal battle with Blake Lively. Baldoni called the ordeal deeply painful as Lively now seeks millions in legal fees. Their dispute has shadowed the hit film they made together since its release.

HBO Max medical drama "The Pitt" led all series with 25 nominations, while the final season of "Hacks" set a comedy record with 24. The nods cement streaming's continued dominance heading into September's ceremony.

What it is: Google's Gemini does not have the same household recognition as Claude and ChatGPT, and the gap has become the central question in AI. The company that named the transformer architecture and ran the field's leading research organization for a decade has spent the last three years watching two startups define the interface of the technology it invented.

The detail: Google published the "Attention Is All You Need" paper in 2017 and had the leading research organization in the field for nearly a decade after. When OpenAI released ChatGPT, Google's public-response bar became so high — a single misfire in a Bard demo cost the company more market cap in a day than OpenAI's total valuation at the time — that internal teams learned to slow-walk anything the ads business might not like. Demis Hassabis's job at DeepMind's helm now involves running research that has to clear a chain of internal reviewers whose incentives point back at the search box.

Why it matters: The AI race is not just a product race — it's a race to define the interface of the next decade of computing. If Gemini remains a product-market-fit runner-up, Google's search-and-ads franchise, still the most profitable business in tech, becomes an accelerating target for disruption. Antitrust decisions on Android and search — including this week's €4.1bn EU fine — are now landing on a company whose signature product is being repriced against a rival category that did not exist five years ago.

What to watch: Watch DeepMind's next model release cadence and how much of it Gemini ships to consumers versus how much stays inside Google Cloud enterprise products. Watch whether Google's antitrust remedies force the AI unit to be spun off or ring-fenced, and watch the incremental Search traffic being lost to ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude in the categories where users are learning to ask questions directly of a model.

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