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A federal judge struck down the Trump administration's $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas, finding it amounted to a tax that only Congress can levy. The ruling sided with 20 Democratic-led states and faces a likely appeal.
The UK government has given Apple and Google a 12-week deadline to prevent children from sending or receiving intimate images on their phones, the latest front in Downing Street's child online safety agenda.
South Korean stocks tumbled as investors pulled out of crowded AI bets, dragging down global markets while oil rose on renewed Israel-Iran strikes.
Reporting describes a pivotal 2025 internal meeting that pushed Apple to overhaul Siri and its AI strategy, but the engineer credited with the turnaround is reportedly being sidelined.
President Trump again called California's elections "rigged" after walking out of an NBC interview, reigniting a fight over vote-counting timelines that state law allows to stretch for weeks.
President Trump told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to retaliate against Iran after an overnight missile exchange, and Iran's military command says it has halted attacks. Markets, mediators, and regional governments are now waiting to see whether the pause holds.
European governments are reassessing contracts with US data analytics firm Palantir, with UK lawmakers calling a £330 million NHS deal a strategic vulnerability. The pushback raises bigger questions about who should hold sensitive public data.
The Senate approved $70 billion in immigration enforcement funding after rejecting a Schumer amendment to block Trump's $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund by a 49-50 vote, with three vulnerable Republicans defecting.
Volodymyr Zelensky published an open letter calling for a face-to-face meeting with Vladimir Putin and a ceasefire during negotiations. The Kremlin again invited him to Moscow, while Putin ruled out a truce.
Israel and Lebanon agreed in Washington to renew a faltering ceasefire and create pilot security zones in southern Lebanon free of Hezbollah, an effort the Trump administration is tying to its parallel talks with Iran.
Senate Republicans dropped $1 billion in Secret Service security funding tied to President Trump's new White House ballroom from an immigration enforcement bill, after the chamber's parliamentarian ruled the provision violated reconciliation rules.
Seattle's city council committees unanimously advanced a one-year moratorium on new datacenter construction, with a full council vote expected Tuesday. The measure would block five proposed AI facilities that could have consumed roughly a third of the city's daily electricity demand.