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Two Phoenix police officers were fired and arrested after allegedly beating a couple and using a stun gun on them during an unreported traffic stop earlier this month. The encounter never made it into official logs. That's how it stayed buried — until video surfaced.

Both officers now face criminal charges, and the couple is pursuing civil action. The case lands as Phoenix's department is already under intense scrutiny over use-of-force practices.

Masoud Pezeshkian used a Sunday address to defend a memorandum with Washington as Iran's only exit from a war stuck between victory and peace. State-run IRNA published the remarks early Sunday, with a fresh round of American sanctions already looming over Tehran.

Iran's new Supreme National Security Council chief warned neighboring states against supporting those sanctions, promising retaliation if they do. Pakistan's army chief is expected in Tehran on Monday, according to Iranian media.

Mykhailo Fedorov, the sacked defense minister who built Ukraine's drone force, says Zelensky has questions to answer about corruption inside his inner circle. Fired last month, Fedorov points to a money-laundering investigation opened last week and is now calling for wartime elections.

Zelensky separately said Putin rejected a Black Sea truce that would have spared ships carrying agricultural cargo. Moscow demanded guarantees against strikes on its own energy infrastructure in exchange, and Kyiv refused to give them.

Kazakhs went to the polls Sunday in the first Kurultai election, choosing a single-chamber legislature that replaces the old two-house system. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev drove the overhaul in March, when 87% of voters backed the merger, and his Adilet party is expected to sweep.

India pulled two survivors from open water after MV Ocean Winner sank roughly 276 miles off the Odisha coast with 24 crew aboard. Twenty of those crew are Chinese nationals, and three Coast Guard and Navy vessels are still combing the area.

Wheat harvests are taking a beating from war-damaged trade routes, extreme heat, and tit-for-tat tariffs across major producing regions. Higher bread prices could hit importing nations hardest — and stoke fresh political turbulence in places that can least afford it.

Phoenix fired and arrested two officers over a violent traffic stop , accusing them of beating a couple and using a stun gun. Neither officer filed a report on the encounter, and both now face criminal charges.

A union of about 360,000 first responders is warning members off glutathione for smoke exposure, an IV treatment offered to Western wildland crews. Two pharmacies recalled the supplement in August over bacterial contamination, with users reporting fever, chills and severe headaches.

Trump and the first lady plan to lead the Freedom 250 prerace lap in the presidential limousine, on a street circuit cutting through downtown Washington. Ambassador Monica Crowley, his liaison to America250, confirmed the plan on Fox Business.

Alibaba launched a HK$80bn share placement on Sunday, raising about $10.2 billion to fund an aggressive artificial intelligence buildout. Strong reception for its Qwen 3.8-Max model set up the raise, the largest single move yet in China's scramble for frontier AI.

Traders poured billions into leveraged single-stock ETFs even as those funds plunged through the semiconductor sell-off. Bargain-hunters are grabbing at a falling knife, betting the chip slide reverses before the leverage turns a dip into a wipeout.

Paramount and the California Attorney General's office are set to meet Monday to discuss settling the antitrust suit challenging Paramount's Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition. A deal would clear a major obstacle to closing one of the largest media mergers in years.

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Hackers tied to Iran are reported to have knocked a UK power plant offline for four days last month. Energy officials have since warned power companies about cyber risk, while insisting the wider national grid was never in danger.

A long-nosed fur seal found dead in South Australia has tested positive for H5, marking Australia's first mammal case. Authorities confirmed the infection Sunday, closing the last major gap in the virus's march across the globe.

A model called Ox Alpha appeared online with free access, and developers are adopting it without knowing who built it. No company has claimed the release, leaving users to benchmark its capabilities in public and guess at the lab behind it.

Jessica Pegula stunned defending champion Iga Swiatek 7-5, 4-6, 6-4 to reach an all-American Cincinnati final opposite Coco Gauff. Pegula's win was her 300th at tour level and ended Swiatek's 10-match streak, while Gauff dispatched Sara Bejlek 6-4, 6-1.

Angel Reese poured in a career-high 31 points in a 99-89 win over Phoenix that punched Atlanta's playoff ticket. Atlanta jumped out to a 14-3 lead inside four minutes and improved to 24-13, while the Mercury slipped to 13-24.

Tarik Skubal survived a three-run first inning and struck out 11 Pirates over seven innings for his first win in Los Angeles. Skubal retired 20 of his final 23 hitters in a 4-3 victory that pushed the Dodgers to 79-51.

JJ Bleday needed only four trips to the plate to hit for the cycle in Cincinnati's 11-5 demolition of Arizona. Elly De La Cruz also went 4-for-6 and finished one triple shy of what would have been baseball's first twin-cycle game.

Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another won top contemporary honors at Saturday's Location Managers Guild awards, for shoots across Humboldt County and El Paso. Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme took the period prize on the strength of New York, the Hudson Valley and Tokyo.

Caroline Kennedy and her family sold more than 330 acres of Martha's Vineyard coastline to conservation groups, unlocking a shoreline that stayed private for decades. Public access comes with caveats, and actually reaching the sand still demands a long walk.

Josh Brolin says a third Sicario film is officially in motion, with him returning as CIA operator Matt Graver nearly a decade after the original. Taylor Sheridan's cartel-hunt franchise gets another shot at the big screen.

What it is: A sweeping look at how Google, Microsoft and a handful of other giants came to dominate nearly every layer of American K-12 education — the laptops on students' desks, the software tracking their grades, the training programs teaching teachers how to use it all.

The detail: These companies didn't just sell products. They funded classroom pilots, sponsored educator conferences, embedded certifications into professional development, and pushed cloud-based platforms into districts hungry for cheap infrastructure. Chromebooks alone now account for the majority of K-12 devices shipped in the United States, and Microsoft and Google workspace suites underpin how millions of assignments get made, submitted and graded each day.

How it happened: Pandemic-era remote learning accelerated a shift that was already underway, forcing districts to distribute devices and move entire school systems online almost overnight. Once teachers, students and administrators built their daily routines around a particular ecosystem, switching became expensive and disruptive. Hardware purchases effectively became long-term software decisions, giving the largest platforms an advantage that extends well beyond the original classroom contract.

Why it matters: Public schools are one of the most consequential markets in America — not just for revenue, but for shaping a generation's habits, data trails, and default tools. Critics say the depth of Big Tech's involvement blurs the line between vendor and policymaker, with companies helping write the digital norms that districts then adopt wholesale. Supporters counter that without the industry's spending, many schools would have been stranded on the wrong side of a widening tech gap.

What to watch: State attorneys general and federal regulators are increasingly probing how student data gets collected and used by education platforms, and a handful of districts are experimenting with open-source alternatives. Whether either trend can meaningfully loosen the grip of the incumbents — or whether AI tools quietly deepen it — will define the next decade of American classrooms.

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