Live updates: Frey disputes that ICE killed woman in self-defense  —  Editor's note: An ICE agent shot and killed a woman Wednesday morning in south Minneapolis.  ICE says the woman was shot in her car after attempting to run over agents.  Mayor Jacob Frey and witnesses are disputing ICE's version of events.

Trump hammers NATO allies while Greenland crisis deepens  —  “I DOUBT NATO WOULD BE THERE FOR US IF WE REALLY NEEDED THEM,” says American president.  —  U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday cast fresh doubt on NATO's reliability, saying he was not convinced the alliance would come …

Venezuela Live Updates: U.S. Forces Seize Two Tankers, One Under a Russian Flag  —  The U.S. military intercepted a Russian-flagged tanker as part of its pressure campaign against Venezuela, escalating a conflict with Moscow after ousting its ally, Nicolás Maduro.  —  Here's the latest.

Trump says Venezuela will turn over 30 million to 50 million barrels of oil to US  —  Investing Oil & gas South America Donald Trump  —  President Donald Trump said Tuesday night that Venezuela will turn over 30 million to 50 million barrels of oil to the United States …

Inside Democrats' plans to stop Trump from raiding more countries  —  House Democrats are scrambling for levers to block the Trump administration from reprising its Venezuelan incursion across Latin America and beyond. … - Democrats' plans include war powers votes, efforts to choke off funding …

Texas A&M Bans Plato  —  Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course.  You have a day to decide.  —  That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University, was told by university officials today …

The Military Isn't MAGA  —  The Uniform Code of Military Justice should not suppress free speech.  —  Mark Kelly will probably be fine.  The senator and Navy veteran isn't likely to be cowed by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's lawless attempt to silence him by seeking to demote him post-retirement.

Elon Musk's “Grok” is undressing women and showing them in swastika bikinis  —  One woman targeted is a Jewish Holocaust survivor  —  Grok, the chatbot run by the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) is generating nonconsensual pornographic images of women with their clothes removed …

Polymarket refuses to pay bets that US would ‘invade’ Venezuela  —  Prediction market disputes US raid amounted to an invasion in fight over more than $10.5mn in wagers  —  Polymarket is disputing that the mission to capture Nicolás Maduro constituted an invasion and said it will only settle …

“They say that when you win the presidency you lose the midterm,” President Donald J. Trump said today to House Republicans.  “I wish you could explain to me what the hell is going on with the mind of the public because we have the right policy.  They don't.  They have a horrible policy.

RFK Jr. unveils new ‘upside down’ food pyramid  —  The White House on Wednesday unveiled new dietary guidelines, with officials calling it the “most significant reset of federal nutrition policy in history.”  —  The new guidelines were represented with an upside-down pyramid placing vegetables …

Professor Fired for Charlie Kirk Post Gets $500,000 From School, Is Reinstated  —  Darren Michael, associate professor at Austin Peay State University, has reportedly been reinstated and given $500,000 after being fired over posts about assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Artificial intelligence begins prescribing medications in Utah … That raises new questions about the safety of automating prescription refills, including how they should be regulated.  So far, the Food and Drug Administration has not weighed in on Doctronic's program.

DOJ admits it has still not released 99% of Epstein files, violating law  —  The DOJ said it is still reviewing millions of Epstein files, after previously claiming it completed the review in July  —  In an extraordinary letter sent to a federal judge Monday evening, Attorney General Pam Bondi admitted …

The Dokoupil Debacle … On Tuesday evening, newly installed “CBS Evening News” anchor Tony Dokoupil closed out just his second official broadcast with a surreal segment: a glowing tribute to Secretary of State Marco Rubio.  Kicking off his “Live from America” tour with a broadcast from Miami …

The Wrath of Stephen Miller  —  Stephen Miller runs his daily 10 a.m. conference calls—yes, even on Saturdays—less like a government adviser and more like a wartime general.  His is the dominant voice, as he plays the role of browbeater, inquisitor, and bully.  He accepts no excuses, entertains no dissent.

New Records Reveal the Mess RFK Jr. Left When He Dumped a Dead Bear in Central Park  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he left a bear cub's corpse in Central Park in 2014 to “be fun.”  Records newly obtained by WIRED show what he left New York civil servants to clean up.  —  This story contains graphic imagery.

RFK Jr.'s strange ringtone revealed when health secretary's phone disrupts White House briefing  —  Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr's phone unexpectedly ringed Wednesday while he was taking questions at a White House briefing announcing new federal food guidelines.

What Would Republicans Do?  —  If a repugnant cabal of predators and perverts beats you in critical elections, their tactics are worth studying.  And, in some cases, emulating.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Here's a hypothetical question I stole from the internet.

We Need to Get Off the Defensive About Immigration … History is replete with times when an army in fighting retreat draws a line, digs in, and then counterattacks.  The Russians in WW2 took world-historic losses, before turning the tide with a massive counteroffensive around Stalingrad.

Kai Trump: President, Harris should meet ‘in the middle’  —  Kai Trump, the granddaughter of President Trump, said former Vice President Harris should meet “in the middle” with the president to help address political extremism.  —  “I think if both sides met in the middle …

Life Under a Clicktatorship  —  What happens to government when everything is content?  —  One of the strangest moments to emerge from the U.S. kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro was the flurry of images posted by President Trump on Truth Social.  It felt a bit like a student who can't decide …

Comer threatens subpoenas for Walz, Ellison in Minnesota fraud scandal  —  House Oversight and Government Reform Chair James Comer could take legal action to compel congressional testimony from Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison about the ongoing federal probe into social services fraud in their state.