France’s president called for a new partnership between European and Asian nations to protect the rules-based international order and avoid being ‘collateral victims’ of the two superpowers.https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/macron-calls-for-new-cooperation-to-address-u-s-china-rivalry-1ff10c67
The U.S.-China trade truce in Geneva earlier this month hinged on Beijing agreeing to resume crucial mineral exports. Now China is slow-walking the concession, and the pact is in jeopardy.https://www.wsj.com/world/china/u-s-china-trade-truce-risks-falling-apart-over-rare-earth-exports-c36ceb72
Washington reiterated its willingness to keep Kyiv’s bid to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization off the table, in line with Moscow’s demands.https://www.wsj.com/world/russia-ukraine-accuse-each-other-of-delay-over-trump-backed-talks-c8f875c5
The Haskell Free Library and Opera House straddles two countries and unites two towns. Plans to make it harder for Canadians to access the shared library are drawing pushback.https://www.wsj.com/us-news/how-a-small-library-in-vermont-became-a-symbol-of-resistance-for-canada-b9149e16
If you use Google’s apps and AI, it’s worth looking at this all-inclusive service. We break down the plans and how much they cost.https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-google-one/
Two years after Sam Altman pitched Congress on AI guardrails, he's back in Washington with a new message: To beat China, invest in OpenAI.https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-sam-altman-ai-regulation-trump/
The photo gallery app in Honor’s latest midrange phones has an image-to-video generative AI feature powered by Google. It’ll probably come to your phone soon.https://www.wired.com/story/honor-400-pro-google-ai-image-to-video/
The court decisions are an abrupt turnaround for a population that entered the country legally and shared detailed information about their whereabouts with the government.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/us/politics/supreme-court-immigrants.html
Cities and counties that have strongly backed the administration’s immigration crackdown nonetheless found themselves on a lengthy list of locales being warned to change their policies.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/us/politics/sanctuary-cities-trump.html
A federal appeals panel ordered officials not to deport a 31-year-old to El Salvador. Minutes later, it happened anyway. The government blamed “administrative errors.”https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/politics/trump-deportation-el-salvador.html
He was the younger brother of Yahya Sinwar, the former Hamas leader killed by Israel last year. Hamas did not immediately respond to the claim of his death.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/world/middleeast/muhammad-sinwar-hamas-israel.html
Officials said Hamas was demanding changes, including on guarantees to end the war, which has long been the main sticking point with Israel.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-hamas-ceasefire-proposal.html
The trip had been planned for Sunday ahead of a June conference, backed by France and Saudi Arabia, to urge the creation of a Palestinian state.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/world/middleeast/israel-arab-ministers-west-bank.html
With the welcome mat withdrawn for promising researchers from around the world, America is at risk of losing its longstanding pre-eminence in the sciences.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/world/asia/us-science-cuts.html
Some former spy-hunters see the State Department’s plan to revoke visas of some Chinese college students as heavy-handed and counterproductive.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/us/politics/trump-china-student-visas-crackdown-risks.html
Molly Jong-Fast’s unsparing account of her famous mother’s decline into dementia, and their life together, is just turning the tables.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/style/molly-jong-fast-memoir-erica-jong.html
In the memoir “How to Lose Your Mother,” Molly Jong-Fast recalls a tumultuous upbringing as the only child of the feminist writer Erica Jong.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/books/review/molly-jong-fast-how-to-lose-your-mother.html
As the two governors made buzzy appearances in South Carolina, Democrats in the influential state were already looking to the next election and wondering: Who can win?https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/us/politics/wes-moore-tim-walz-south-carolina-democrats.html
He became an advocate of a woman’s right to choose and once said, “It is always tragic when politics takes the most vulnerable hostage — in this case, women.”https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/health/etienne-emile-baulieu-dead.html
Residents have a saying in Spruce Pine, that a piece of their home is in tech across the globe. But could geopolitical tensions hurt their mining tradition, and their lucrative quartz business?https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/us/north-carolina-spruce-pine-quartz-minerals.html