Top 20 stories from 256 across 23 days
Brussels and Canberra wiped out 92 % of tariffs, but France’s farm lobby now has the votes to stall ratification in the European Parliament.
Why it matters: One angry committee can freeze a deal that EU exporters expect to book €10 bn a year from
Oral arguments showed a 5-4 lean toward counting only ballots in hand by Election Day—roughly 300k late-arrival votes in 2022 would have been tossed.
Budapest moved from warning to action, banning Q3 gas auctions to Ukraine and citing ‘pipeline security’; Kyiv now faces a 20 % summer supply gap.
The DOJ unsealed a narco-terror indictment from 2020 the day U.S.
Brent crude jumped 11% overnight to $122 after Hormuz tanker traffic fell by a third, and airlines have begun adding $40 fuel surcharges per ticket.
Merkel, Draghi and a cross-party bloc urged Hungarians to pick Péter Magyar, signaling EU leaders now see regime change as the cleanest fix to Orbán’s constant veto threats.
Moscow sent nearly 1,000 Shahed drones; Kyiv replied by hitting Russia’s Ust-Luga fuel terminal, briefly spooking radars in Estonia and Latvia.
Washington quietly handed Caracas the keys to its consulates, letting Venezuela restart passport renewals that pump in hard-currency fees despite U.S.
Rubio floated rerouting U.S.
Foreign Minister Szijjártó confirmed he briefed Russian officials while the EU weighed fresh sanctions, risking Budapest’s voting power in the next package.
First confirmed Hezbollah-revenge strike on U.S.
London pulled the plug on crypto donations and slapped new ceilings on foreign cash, instantly freezing Reform UK’s biggest funding channel.
DoD quietly barred Anthropic from new contracts; the startup sued within hours, arguing the ban is “national security theater.” The freeze halts multiple Joint AI Center pilots now stuck in limbo.
The judge issued a nationwide injunction, halting the Pentagon’s ban on Anthropic contracts until the case is argued on the merits.
By refusing dismissal, the court said U.S.
Anthropic is suing to scrap the Pentagon label that bars its models from federal contracts—the first AI supplier to fight the security-risk blacklist in court.
Budapest will cut off gas to Kyiv until Russian oil resumes through Druzhba, using energy transit as leverage in the EU’s sanctions chessboard.
Anduril’s autonomous drones reportedly hit Iranian radar boats Thursday, putting Palmer Luckey in the crosshairs of lawmakers who fast-tracked his Pentagon contracts.
ICE used detained children to track and arrest 11,400 parents and quietly stationed agents at 14 airports even as DHS funding lapses near a deal.
Federal agents nabbed a suspect tied to threats that followed the truck ramming of a Michigan synagogue, days after a spike in antisemitic incidents.
