The atomic playbook
Briefing: The White House’s design reviewers are fired. The American president fixes on ending Korea’s 75-year war. + Why is Moscow testing a new nuclear weapon?
Burying the evidence
Briefing: A Hamas deception jeopardizes the Gaza ceasefire. AI sees out 14,000 corporate jobs at Amazon. + Why is China building so much, so fast?
Kicking it down the road again
Briefing: The U.S. and China agree to agree on trade. French authorities make arrests in the Louvre heist. + What are all these American troops actually doing in the Caribbean?
The big deal
Briefing: Clemency for the founder of Binance—a new Trump-family business partner. Sanctions for Russia’s oil giants—for the first time. + How are administration officials thinking about their risk exposure?
Execution in the Pacific
Briefing: Deadly counternarcotics strikes are expanding, while the evidence behind them is not. The Trump-Putin summit that’s not to be. + Why are Moscow and Damascus getting so friendly?
No kitchen lady
Briefing: The U.S. refugee program for people who don’t seem to want to leave their country. The Paris jewel thieves appear to be getting away with it. + How do you take in millions of refugees?
Seven minutes in Paris
Briefing: Crown jewels vanish from the Louvre. NASA rethinks how to get back to the moon. + Is Trump really deconstructing American democracy?
The enemies list
Briefing: The U.S. confirms CIA operations in Venezuela. Europe builds a drone wall against Russia. + Turning America’s tax agency against the president’s enemies.
Graveyard in the desert
Briefing: A disarmament ultimatum for Hamas. Madagascar’s Gen Z protests topple a government. + A two-year operation to move tens of thousands of bodies—and hide the evidence.
No interior daylight
Briefing: The Israeli dead begin returning from Gaza. California goes it alone in regulating AI chatbots. + An unusual solidarity across the American press as they decamp from the Pentagon.
