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A Russian ballistic-missile-and-drone barrage on Kyiv killed at least nine people and injured dozens more overnight, the latest in Moscow's escalating campaign on the Ukrainian capital. Ukrainian officials said the strikes hit residential blocks in three districts and damaged critical grid infrastructure.

Attack lands one day after Warsaw scrambled NATO jets to intercept a Russian missile that had crossed into Polish airspace, and hours after Trump publicly signaled a possible Iran-front reset. European foreign ministers are meeting in Brussels, and Zelenskyy's office demanded fresh Patriot deliveries within the week.

The Trump-family-controlled media company is offering paid subscribers early access to the president's Truth Social feed for up to $100,000 a month — a service outside legal experts say may run afoul of insider-trading law, given how consistently Trump's posts move markets. Product launched to institutional subscribers Friday.

Rollout arrives days after a fresh round of Truth Social posts triggered outsized moves in specific stocks tied to White House policy decisions, and while SEC leadership sits vacant. Senator Elizabeth Warren has already demanded a formal SEC and CFTC review, and academic legal analysts described the product as "an insider-trading platform with extra steps."

An Israeli official told reporters that Israeli troops will not pull back from Gaza without what he called "genuine" Hamas disarmament, complicating the framework President Trump announced Thursday. The statement is the sharpest daylight yet between Washington and Jerusalem on the sequencing.

Hamas leadership responded with its own conditions, requiring guarantees on prisoner releases and the return of displaced Palestinians before the group would place its weapons under third-party control. Egypt and Qatar are pushing for a two-week fixed-review window, and Netanyahu's security cabinet is scheduled to meet Sunday.

China's foreign ministry lodged a formal protest after New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters told a Chinese-born member of Parliament to "go back to your own country". Peters, who leads a populist party inside the coalition government, has refused to apologize — straining Wellington's largest trade relationship at an awkward moment.

Hungary is now bracing to shut its Paks nuclear plant entirely as the drought-stricken Danube River drops to some of its lowest levels on record. Cooling water has grown so scarce along the river that a slow-building drought is fast turning into an outright national energy emergency.

The British band was told not to return to Singapore after shouting "free Palestine" at a Wednesday concert, in what the government called a breach of rules against political statements at public events. The ban puts the city-state's tight speech regime back in the spotlight as more Western acts tour Southeast Asia.

A federal regulator fined the former congressman $35,000 over allegations he placed insider bets on Kalshi about whether he would attend the February State of the Union. It is one of the first enforcement actions treating prediction-market wagers on one's own actions as sanctionable trading.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr publicly defended the agency's actions against ABC's broadcast licenses, citing broadcasters' "duty to operate in the public interest." Statement escalates a fight that already had Democratic commissioners threatening a court challenge.

The Trump administration dropped its vandalism charge against a demonstrator accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and separately admitted that emergency repairs to the site had been "botched." Trump had previously blamed the demonstrator for the damage.

DoorDash is the latest US company asked by a two-committee joint House investigation to share details of any AI use tied to Chinese-model providers. The company had already disclosed use of some open-weight models, and the disclosure is likely to preview a broader wave of similar letters.

New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh is weighing a reduction in the number of FOMC meetings, which have been held at least eight times a year for decades. It would be the biggest procedural change of his tenure and would thin out the rate decisions markets have organized around for a generation.

Shares of Newport News-based Ferguson Enterprises rallied more than 8% after news the plumbing and heating distributor will be added to the S&P 500, edging out better-known candidates. Index inclusion forces passive funds to buy the stock — an automatic tailwind heading into rebalance day.

Marine biologists used DNA sequencing to confirm that a distinctive pink seaweed found off the UK's south coast is in fact a species previously unknown to science — resolving a debate that had been running since a first specimen washed up in the 1980s. Formal taxonomic naming will follow later this year.

New reporting walks through the growing spread of tick-linked meat allergy, which is now diagnosed at rates rising sharply across the US Northeast, Southeast, and lower Midwest. Researchers are trying to explain why some tick bites trigger the condition while others don't.

NASA is launching two small probes to the Moon to test complex three-body orbital dynamics involving Earth, Moon, and Sun gravity. The math is the same problem that flummoxed Newton, and it now underpins fuel-efficient lunar logistics ahead of a decade of Artemis traffic.

Houston pounded Texas 11-2 at Daikin Park on Friday night, extending the Astros to nine wins in their last ten and lifting them into first place in the AL West. Jose Altuve went 4-for-5 with a homer and four RBIs.

San Diego pitched a combined two-hitter and rookie Nathan Bowen hit his first career home run as the Padres shut out the Giants 7-0. Michael King struck out ten across six innings, and the bullpen closed with three perfect frames.

The Giants suspended outfielder Harrison Bader's pay after he reportedly crashed a scooter into a fire truck, adding an injury on top of the plantar fasciitis that already had him on the IL. The team cited conduct rather than the fire truck itself, which is presumably fine.

Former Pro Bowl receiver DeAndre Hopkins is expected to join Georgia Tech's offensive coaching staff after failing to land an NFL roster spot for the season. The 34-year-old will be on the Yellow Jackets' sideline instead of a Sunday depth chart.

John Oliver has extended his HBO contract to keep "Last Week Tonight" running through the end of 2027, regardless of who ends up owning the network. The relatively short extension hints at his own hedge against Warner Bros. Discovery's ownership uncertainty.

Sam Fender and Olivia Dean's duet "Rein Me In" has spent 19 non-consecutive weeks at the top of the UK singles chart, breaking a 73-year-old record. The mark had stood since the earliest days of the modern British chart — an era when singles came on shellac.

What it is: A group of 98 teenagers from across the country was pulled together to draft an AI regulation bill from scratch, with real congressional staff embedded to serve as legislative assistants. The exercise ended with a text that, in several places, diverged sharply from what Washington's current AI-policy debate is actually producing. Here’s what they wrote, why it matters, and what it says about who tech regulation is being written for.

The detail: The teens' bill required specific labeling on AI-generated content used in political ads, school assignments, and any product marketed to under-18 users; mandated a "human recourse" hotline for anyone who lost a job, an insurance claim, or a scholarship decision through an automated system; and required the largest model developers to publish quarterly safety-and-harms data using a standardized template. Notably absent: the copyright fights that dominate the actual congressional bill drafts, and the antitrust framing that dominates the Democratic policy stack. Their emphasis instead was on daily-life friction and personal-recourse rights.

A short history: Adult-drafted US AI policy has landed in three main clusters — voluntary industry commitments (2023-24), an EU-adjacent risk-classification framework (2024-25), and the current Section-230-style liability debate (2025-26). None of these tracks was centered on the concerns the teens surfaced. Similar youth-drafting exercises have been run before — notably a 2018 climate-policy version — and the pattern is consistent: young participants prioritize procedural fairness and personal recourse over the industry-structure fights that dominate adult versions.

Why it matters: The population most affected by any AI regulation over the next twenty years is the population currently excluded from writing it. Congressional staffers who participated said several teen-proposed clauses were more legally clean than provisions in current Senate drafts. And the framing gap — daily-life friction vs. industry structure — is now showing up in polling, with under-25 voters ranking AI concerns very differently than the current legislative debate does.

What to watch: Watch whether any of the teen-drafted provisions get picked up in a real Senate markup this fall — Senator Bennet's office has hinted at the "human recourse" language. Watch state-level bills in California, New York, and Colorado, which move faster than federal ones and are more likely to test youth-forward framings. And watch how the 2028 presidential-primary field talks about AI, because the first candidate to adopt a personal-recourse frame will be the earliest indicator that youth priorities are landing.

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