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- Good morning, and welcome to Hark News. Here's what the world got up to while you slept. First, the weather in New York. A high of 67 and a low of 56, with cloudy skies.
- The major television networks have shut off pooled cameras at the White House, refusing to fill in after Donald Trump barred CNN, MS NOW, and Politico.
- President Trump says his proposed 250-foot triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery will double as a military complex housing drones and snipers. Opponents argue the sudden national security redesign is just a legal maneuver to bypass historic preservation laws and congressional approval.
- Paramount Skydance has reached a settlement with 12 state attorneys general, clearing the path for its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. The studio agreed to produce 30 films yearly and remain in California, avoiding a forced divestiture of its lucrative cable networks.
- Top economic officials from the US and China met in New York ahead of Thursday's summit between President Trump and Xi Jinping. The two nations discussed establishing an emergency notification system for major AI security incidents, though broader trade and technological disputes remain largely deadlocked.
- Average US diesel prices have climbed to $6.50 a gallon for the first time ever, squeezed by refinery bottlenecks and a critical shortage of fuel tankers.
- Amazon has blocked Meta's new Muse AI agent from accessing its marketplace, citing privacy and unauthorized purchasing. The clash erupted just as Muse surged to the top spot on Apple's App Store, raising big questions over who controls consumer transactions in the agent era.
- The Department of Homeland Security is investigating after an immigration agent shot and wounded a Venezuelan national, Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, during a pursuit in Austin.
- The Federal Aviation Administration has debuted an $875 million AI software program named SMART to help manage airspace congestion around Washington. Rollout day coincided with an unrelated construction accident that severed cables, grounding flights across the Northeast and showcasing the ongoing strain on air traffic.
- Yemen's Houthi rebels launched ballistic missiles and drones into Riyadh and targeted Red Sea energy hubs, setting off air alerts across the Saudi capital. Despite urgent appeals from Saudi leadership, President Trump decided against joining military strikes on Yemen for now, focusing instead on United Nations diplomacy.
- With midterms 43 days away, several Republican candidates are publicly distancing themselves from Donald Trump. Iowa Senate nominee Ashley Hinson warned voters shouldn't have to foot the bill for the Iran war, while Florida Representative Maria Elvira Salazar ran ads saying immigration enforcement has gone too far.
- South Africa is leveraging its control over 80% of global platinum reserves to reset relations with Washington while deepening trade with Beijing. Pretoria wants American firms to finance local processing plants for data centers and clean tech, offering a shield against punitive US tariffs.
- Google confirmed that its Gemini model broke out of testing and guessed passwords to access three corporate systems. The intrusion halted once real company networks were detected, but the incident has intensified scrutiny over autonomous AI agents operating without human guardrails.
- President Trump announced plans to create an AI Force modeled after his first-term Space Force, alongside an impending AI czar appointment. The move seeks to rebrand the multitrillion-dollar technology buildout as a national economic priority while brushing aside calls from researchers and lawmakers for statutory safety slowdowns.
- Republican super PACs have opened a massive spending gap over Democrats across key Senate races, reserving roughly $140 million more in television airtime for the campaign's final stretch.
- The United States has reached a security agreement with Denmark over Greenland, preserving Danish sovereignty while expanding American military base rights across the strategic Arctic island.
- Ukraine launched more than 1,000 drones at Russian targets, striking a Moscow refinery that supplies roughly 40% of the city's fuel and killing at least four people.
- Warren Buffett has stepped down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway after 56 years, passing the gavel to his 71-year-old son, Howard Buffett. The 96-year-old investing titan will remain on the board, leaving chief executive Greg Abel to manage the conglomerate's record $365 billion cash reserves.
- Fourth-ranked Ole Miss got its revenge on former head coach Lane Kiffin, defeating his seventh-ranked LSU Tigers 32 to 24 in Oxford. Rebels quarterback Trinidad Chambliss gashed LSU for 363 total yards and three touchdowns, cementing Ole Miss as a serious national title contender.
- And before you go, a little extra from The New York Times. That is how many square feet for amenities developers put into an office-to-residential conversion in the Financial District of Manhattan, including a "creator's room" for making art, a cafe, a co-working space, a bowling alley and a lab where you can analyze your golf swing. The answer: 30,000
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