Power is slowly returning after a massive power outage in Spain and Portugal. / The Guardian Meanwhile, Spain's electricity grid recently ran entirely on renewable energy for the first time. / pv magazine President Trump's meme coin has "eviscerated the boundary between private enterprise and government policy.
HHS says there won't be an autism registry, walking back NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya's controversial announcement from earlier this week. / STAT As government and fringe groups—kind of the same thing right now—promote the pseudoscience of eugenics, geneticists must take a stand. / Nature The Dept.
Russia hits Kyiv with missiles and drones, one of the deadliest attacks on the capital since last year. / The Kyiv Independent A tunnel between Denmark and Germany will link 90 individual segments, piece by piece, "like Lego bricks." / BBC News Italy's transformation into "a recycling
The trade war between Washington and Beijing looks good for African nations. / Semafor From February, a round-up of China's top trading partners on the continent. / China Global South Fourteen reasons why tariffs won't bring manufacturing back to the United States—among them: "most Americans
The dollar falls to a three-year low, as a trade war and threats against the Federal Reserve drive "Sell America" trades. / Semafor Andrew Burmon: If the fig leaf of prestige falls, the upper middle class will discover how angry it is at "the misalignment of their
Pope Francis has died at 88, "the first [pope] in generations to make the Vatican feel less like a fortress and more like a field hospital." / Migrant Insider The Bush administration argued Guantanamo should be beyond the reach of the courts; CECOT is the Trump administration's
Staffing cuts at HHS will apparently force the FDA to suspend its network of labs that test food for pathogens and contaminants. / Reuters World Health Organization members agree on a treaty to prevent pandemic disorganization and competition for resources—"the US will not be bound by the pact when
Chinese President Xi Jinping wraps up a Southeast Asia tour to strengthen already robust trade relations. / The Associated Press Goldman Sachs says a decoupling of the United States and China may cost the US $2.5 trillion. / The South China Morning Post The World Trade Organization expects trade of merchandise
A day in the life of northeastern Ukraine, where there are no signs Vladimir Putin wants to end his war. / The New York Times [+] A whistleblower explains that as DOGE staffers exfiltrated data, someone in Russia followed them through the door. / NPR Related: The EU issues burner phones to officials
The Nile's migratory birds are threatened by tourists' poaching habits. "Maltese hunters take everything." / The New Arab New technologies are helping to regrow Arctic sea ice, but they remain controversial. / Grist El Salvador President Nayib Bukele says he can't return a mistakenly deported
