‘Russian bombers are burning en masse’ — Ukraine's SBU drones hit ‘more than 40’ aircraft in mass attack, source claims  —  Editor's note: This is a breaking story and is being updated.  —  An operation by Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) using first-person-view (FPV) …

Trump Spreads Bizarre Conspiracy Theory That Biden Was Executed and Replaced by a Robot Clone  —  “Democrats don't know the difference,” claimed a Truth Social post that the president shared  —  Donald Trump reposted a baseless conspiracy theory claiming Joe Biden was “executed in 2020” and replaced with a robot clone.

Unease at F.B.I. Intensifies as Patel Ousts Top Officials … The F.B.I. headquarters in Washington.Erin Schaff/The New York Times  —  Before being confirmed as the director of the F.B.I., Kash Patel made clear his intent to remake it in his own image, reflecting a larger desire by the White House to bend the agency to its will.

Aide to Rep. Nadler Is Handcuffed Amid Confrontation With Federal Agents  —  Captured on video, the episode occurred in the congressman's Manhattan office, shortly after the aide observed agents detaining immigrants outside a courtroom.  —  Federal officers entered Representative Jerry Nadler's office …

Are International Students Good for American Universities?  —  Several years ago, a colleague teaching at Miami University, a large state school in Ohio, kindly invited me to give a talk there.  After picking me up at the airport, he suggested that we have lunch at a Sichuan restaurant near campus.

How to Dismantle a Democracy, One Job Posting at a Time  —  OPM's new hiring memo imports the authoritarian playbook—quietly, bureaucratically, and by design.  —  The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) recently unveiled a “Merit Hiring Plan” that, despite its name, signals a profound departure …

Can Trump fix the national debt?  Republican senators, many investors and even Elon Musk have doubts  —  President Donald Trump faces the challenge of convincing Republican senators, global investors, voters and even Elon Musk that he won't bury the federal government in debt with his multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package.

Will America's National Parks Survive Trump?  —  Like a cinnamon river overflowing its banks, thousands of elk have been making their way across Jackson Hole, Wyo., to their summer range below the high, jagged peaks of Grand Teton National Park.  —  This is one of the world's most spectacular migrations …

Immigrants Rebuilt a Pennsylvania Town — Then Became Targets  —  Haitians in Charleroi filled pews and revived stores.  Now they face deportation and backlash.  —  Larry Celaschi summons me to look at his cell phone, which displays a photo of a truck.  The picture, which someone shared with Celaschi …

RFK Jr. May Have Just Ruined Our Best Weapon Against Bird Flu  —  IMAGINE BEING HANDED the ultimate weapon to win a future war and throwing that weapon away.  —  That's a fair description of what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did last week when he canceled a $766 million government contract to develop a new bird flu vaccine.1

F.D.A. Updates Recall of Tomatoes, Warning of a High Risk of Illness or Death  —  The recall of tomatoes distributed in three southern states was upgraded to the most severe warning the agency issues.  —  The Food and Drug Administration has updated an ongoing recall of tomatoes distributed …

Wes Moore and Tim Walz Go to a Fish Fry and Spatter 2028 Gossip Everywhere  —  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?  —  Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland played …

Early adoption of AI will boost US growth  —  Artificial intelligence may buoy stocks even as it destroys jobs  —  Simply sign up to the US economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.  —  Business deployment of artificial intelligence has reached a tipping point.

Gabbard Wants Fox Hosts to Feed Trump Top Secret Intel: 'Doesn't Read'  —  BURN AFTER WATCHING  —  Because the president is “on broadcast all the time,” the director of national security plans to revamp his daily intelligence briefings.  —  Director of National Security Tulsi Gabbard wants …

'Of Course I'm Going to Testify': Mike Lindell's Defamation Trial Is Going to Be Wild  —  The MAGA MyPillow owner tells Rolling Stone he's taking the stand as he continues to battle litigation over his 2020 election lies  —  Is it a good idea — or a great idea?  —  “I'm going to testify!”

UK announces billions in fresh defense splurge amid worries about Russia  —  The U.K. will spend at least £3 billion on long-range weapons, housing facilities and arms factories as it seeks to revive its defense industry and gear up for a potential conflict with Russia.

Former New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern on projecting “A Different Kind of Power”  —  These days, at her local coffee shop near Boston, Jacinda Ardern can be just another customer.  “I don't put my name on the order; it's too complicated!” she laughed.  —  I asked, “When you order coffee here, do people start talking politics with you?”

MAGA's world tour exports Trumpism beyond U.S. borders  —  MAGA media heavyweights are intervening in elections around the world, increasingly obsessed with exporting President Trump's brand of right-wing populism beyond America's borders.  —  Why it matters: What began as a nationalist reaction …

Dollar's correlation with Treasury yields breaks down  —  Investors' concerns about US policymaking and Fed independence weigh on greenback and bonds  —  Simply sign up to the US economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.  —  The close relationship between US government bond yields …

Federal agent's tattoo stokes fear  —  ICE denies connections between the officer and white supremacy.  —  A federal immigration enforcer's tattoo that matches the description of a symbol used by white supremacists has caused some Vineyarders to sound alarm bells.

Trump sparks Europe's ‘new Enlightenment’  —  The EU aims to grab a rare chance generated by the White House's repression of U.S. higher education.  —  By ELENA GIORDANO  —  Illustration by Natália Delgado /POLITICO  —  Donald Trump's war on some of America's most iconic colleges …

May 31, 2025  —  “I would like to speak briefly and simply about a serious national condition,” Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine told her colleagues on June 1, 1950.  “It is a national feeling of fear and frustration that could result in national suicide and the end of everything …

New Covid shot recommendations appear to contradict Kennedy  —  An update to the CDC's website shows that children “may” get the Covid vaccine if their parents and doctors want them to.  —  An update to the CDC's vaccine schedule seems to contradict Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s plan …