HEADLINES:
Fatal nor’easter lashes coastal communities with soaking rain, wind and massive waves (CNN)
Bomb squad searching vans near U.S. air base in Britain as five men arrested on terror charge (NBC)
Trump rejects Iran’s seven-day roadmap to end war and reopen Hormuz (Al Jazeera)
Lenders Don’t Trust the United States Anymore (Atlantic)
A past FBI inquiry complicates Susan Collins’s campaign message in Maine (WP)
Susan Collins’s Maine Money Machine (New Yorker)
A 7-Day Standoff That Said So Much About Trump and the Media (NYT)
Democrats now have easier paths to flipping the Senate. Here are races to watch. (WP)
House Democrats plan vast oversight of Trump administration. Impeachment is an option (AP)
Supreme Court revives Trump’s voter-verification system (Reuters)
The Next Election May be Our Last (Defend Democracy)
Lawmakers slam Trump’s move to cancel $810M in funding approved by Congress (WP)
Trump Administration Plans to Gut Clean Car Rules (NYT)
Robot Girl (Journal of the Plague Years)
He spent 11 months inside DOGE. Now he wants to set the record straight. (WP)
Loyalists Only, Please. Why Trump Surrounds Himself With True Believers (Reveal)
Iran awaits next US move (Reuters)
Trump rejects Iran’s seven-day roadmap to reopen Strait of Hormuz (Al Jazeera)
UN adds 61 firms to settlements blacklist over alleged human rights violations against Palestinians (Guardian)
Iran’s Bitterness and Bewilderment Over How to Make Peace with Trump (New Yorker)
U.S. Rejects U.N. Declaration on Preparing for Future Pandemics (NYT)
Inside the alleged plot to attack Trump’s birthday UFC fight (WP)
All the Major Social Media Networks Are Reportedly Refusing Ads for ‘Musk’ (Gizmodo)
Dogs use a surprising method to understand human language, new study suggests (WP)
AI agent incident toll has risen to tens of thousands (Marcus)
The AI safety debate is confusing. Here’s our guide to the different factions (NPR)
China and US agree to establish AI safety channel and continue trade and military talks (AP)
OpenAI says its AI agents escaped a secure ‘sandbox’ again last weekend and it is pausing training for a second time (Fortune)
How the U.S. and Russia weakened a global effort to regulate killer AI (WP)
How OpenAI’s Rogue A.I. Agents Tried to Trick a Robot Detector (NYT)
Shy, Bookish Umpire Actually Really Beautiful When He Takes Mask Off (Onion)