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⭘ Commercial satellite images show Israel building up troops and equipment near the border with Gaza that would support a possible new ground invasion.

⬤ Time and again, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has pledged to defeat Hamas by force. The decision to capture Gaza City repeats a strategy that has failed in the past.

⬤ Netanyahu's plan marks a significant tactical shift: While Israel's military has previously operated intensively in Gaza's largest city, it has not occupied it before.

⬤ The decision to expand operations in the enclave went against the recommendations of the military.

⬤ International allies and families of hostages condemned Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to take control of Gaza City, with the British prime minister calling it "wrong."

⬤ The president has ordered the Pentagon to use the armed forces to carry out what in the past was considered law enforcement.

⭘ Apple CEO Tim Cook went to the White House to announce plans to spend about $600 billion over four years in the U.S.

⬤ Leaders of the two nations are set to visit the White House and agree on a path forward after their war over Nagorno-Karabakh, which Azerbaijan won by force in 2023.

⭘ Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev meet with President Donald Trump to address decadeslong conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh territory.

⬤ President Trump's most recent executive order wades into a debate over how elite colleges should weigh grades and test scores versus the obstacles students have overcome.

⭘ The company just released GPT-5, its latest and most advanced large-scale AI model.

⭘ OpenAI executives say GPT‑5​ is more accurate than its predecessor and excels at coding.

⭘ Pete Bannon, who joined Tesla from Apple in 2016, is leaving the electric vehicle maker.

⭘ The British prime minister and French president get sucked into a shady conspiracy in the streaming giant's latest twisty, emotional drama. Jones and Julie Delpy tell allHostage is a political thriller, and observes the conventions in many ways. The pace is absolutely flawless, it's twisty, it has emotional heft. The British prime minister, Abigail Dalton, played by Suranne Jones, faces her husband, Alex Anderson (Ashley Thomas), being kidnapped. Their marriage is well drawn – "it's happy, it's assured, they're supportive of each other," Jones says. As we chat in Netflix's central London offices, she's always saying five things at once, only one of them out loud. Here, the subtext (I've decided) is: it's actually pretty skilled work, creating a not-schmaltzy, passionate but familiar love match in which all the audience's hopes and prayers are with the abducted spouse. That's why normally when fictional politicians are the victims of a family kidnapping, it's one of their kids.Meanwhile, the French president, Julie Delpy's Vivienne Toussaint, is also in Britain, is also being blackmailed, and has her own dilemmas: principally, does she go over to the dark side, by echoing the far right on anti-immigrant narratives, or stick to her principles, whatever those may still be. Delpy is hilarious on this, and actually most things. "That's something I found interesting in the show. Sometimes I wonder, I truly wonder, is there any politician who really has a conscience? I look at Macron – I cannot believe someone with a conscience wouldn't be questioning themselves, questioning who they have picked [as a cabinet], questioning what's going on with French politics." "You really wonder whether any politician has a conscience?" I ask, just to be clear. "Well, yes." Continue reading...

⭘ Harvey Willgoose, 15, was stabbed at All Saints Catholic High School in Sheffield in February.

⭘ The summer of millennial nostalgia is still going strong as pop culture and younger generations seem to be celebrating all things early 2000s.

⭘ Not sure about opening a CD now? Here are four reasons why you should (and why you should do so before September).

⭘ This week a new word made its public debut. With an increase in attacks on health care facilities and personnel, the goal of this coinage is to spark outrage and outcry. But the reaction is mixed.

⬤ Leaders of the two nations are set to visit the White House and agree on a path forward after their war over Nagorno-Karabakh, which Azerbaijan won by force in 2023.

⭘ Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev meet with President Donald Trump to address decadeslong conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh territory.

⬤ The Kremlin said a one-on-one meeting was being planned, but White House officials said that decisions had not yet been made.

⬤ It was unclear whether Putin offered Trump any concessions in exchange for a meeting. But it would be a significant win for Putin after weeks of Trump's verbal attacks.

⭘ Washington's deadline for Moscow to strike a ceasefire in Ukraine lapses on Friday, paving the way for potential White House tariffs on Russia's trade partners.

⭘ Footwear firm warns of falling sales because of global trade uncertainty and 'super-cautious' US consumers

⭘ Shares of Crocs shed nearly 30% Thursday after the company issued the stark warnings.

⭘ This stands in stark contrast to the global market rout that followed Trump's April 2 tariff announcement, when investors rushed out of U.S. equities and bonds.

⭘ Günther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz, one of the world's biggest insurers, says the climate crisis could make adaptation economically unviable.

⭘ Private equity firms are struggling to sell the companies they own — and that's locking investors' money in aging funds with no clear exit in sight.

⬤ President Trump's most recent executive order wades into a debate over how elite colleges should weigh grades and test scores versus the obstacles students have overcome.

⭘ Thursday's move would compel colleges to report more data about the students they enroll and those who apply, including applicants' race and standardized test scores.

⬤ Zohran Mamdani has not released a detailed plan for public education, but his biggest proposal centers on weakening mayoral control and giving power to teachers and parents.

⭘ Michigan's health director spent a year and $30 million building a work requirements system for Medicaid. The problems he encountered have him worried now that 40 states must do the same by 2027.

⭘ President Donald Trump has nicknamed himself "the fertilization president," but six months after he formally pledged to expand access to in vitro fertilization, the White House has yet to issue a policy to that end

⭘ The human brain tends to slow down as we age — even healthy brains shrink. That can make learning and memory harder as people age. But some people's brains shrink more slowly than their peers. This lucky group is called "SuperAgers." They're people aged 80 or older. But they have the memory abilities of someone 50-to-60 years old. This week in the journal Alzheimer's & Dementia, researchers from Northwestern University's SuperAging Program summarized some of the secrets they've learned in the last 2.5 decades.

⭘ ICE is using signing bonuses and an endorsement by actor Dean Cain to encourage Americans to join its ranks. Experts doubt that it will improve public safety.

⭘ The WNBA continues to be plagued by a series of disruptions involving sex toys. A Chicago Sky game was the latest victim of the viral prank.

⭘ South Yorkshire Police will not investigate itself over reports officers sexually abused children.

⭘ A Georgia sheriff's deputy who fatally shot a man who had been exonerated and freed from prison has been indicted on unrelated civil rights charges, federal prosecutors said Thursday

⭘ Friend says Quornelius Radford, man accused of shooting five fellow soldiers at an army base, was 'bullied a lot'