What do you do when the traffic violation is committed by nobody? Police in California had that problem when they pulled over a Waymo for making an illegal U-turn. The perp was let off with a warning to its software developers.
Commenters asked the obvious: how do you even pull over a Waymo? Turns out, the car dutifully responds to sirens and pulls over just like a human driver.
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In Case You Missed It
▶️ YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by President Trump after he was suspended from the platform in the wake of January 6 protests.
🏛️ The Trump administration has begun releasing contingency plans for a possible government shutdown, including furloughs and significant service cuts, as the September 30 deadline looms.
⚖️ The U.S. Justice Department has sued Minnesota and its local jurisdictions over their sanctuary city policies, accusing them of violating federal law by refusing to cooperate with immigration enforcement.
🚤 A record 125 migrants crossed the English Channel on a single small vessel — the largest number ever documented in one trip.
💸 The UK reportedly spent about $1 million on a study to assess whether sanctions against Russia are working. A quick Google search could’ve saved them the trouble: they’re not. Russia’s economy is in positive GDP growth. The sanctions are wrecking your own economies, dummies.
*Stock data as of market close, cryptocurrency data as of 5:00 AM.
Lead: A Gaza ‘Peace Plan’ That Still Lets Israel Stay
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President Trump met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday and announced a plan for the U.S. to run Gaza after a peace deal.
The plan shows Israel retreating from Gaza but only after hostages are released. Israel has to release its Palestinian hostages too. The third withdrawal has Israel holding control of the perimeter buffer zone they created when the war began.
But the White House makes it clear that “Israel will not occupy or annex Gaza.”
Day-to-day authority would fall to a “temporary International Stabilization Force” (ISF), which would train vetted Palestinian police and work with Jordan and Egypt. This force would also coordinate with Israel and Egypt to secure Gaza’s borders.
While President Trump appeared optimistic about this plan, Netanyahu carved out his own option to keep full control.
“If Hamas rejects your plan, Mr. President, or if they supposedly accepts it and then basically do everything to counter it, then Israel will finish the job by itself. This can be done the easy way, or it can be done the hard way. But it will be done,” the Prime Minister said.
That means even if Hamas agrees, Netanyahu could claim they’ve “countered” the deal — and keep fighting.
To remove any doubt, Netanyahu released a video afterward boasting that the deal would still allow the IDF to stay in Gaza — apparently overlooking the “Israel will not occupy Gaza” part.
A Letter, a Death, and the Lies That Won’t Go Away
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Shortly after Charlie Kirk’s death, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about a letter that Kirk had sent him in May 2025. Quoting at length, Netanyahu claimed the letter proved Kirk’s “unshakeable” love of Israel.
On Monday, what purports to be that letter, dated May 2, 2025, was published. It contains the same excerpts Netanyahu cited but also shows Kirk pleading with him for help in launching a full-blown PR campaign to win back Israel’s critics.
Kirk’s close friend Candace Owens pushed back, saying Netanyahu misrepresented the letter and insisting Kirk was “falling out of love with Israel” in the weeks before his death. By Kirk’s own admission, he was openly questioning his allegiance to the Israeli government, a shift the alleged letter does not reflect. If this is indeed the letter, Netanyahu didn’t misquote it, but he clearly used it as propaganda to obscure Kirk’s shaken loyalty.
Two details in the letter are especially troubling. First, Kirk appears to argue that Israel should better sell a war with Iran. But Kirk publicly opposed war with Iran. Are we to believe that on May 1 he denounced war with Iran and then, on May 2, urged Netanyahu to market it better?
This sentence is also especially bothersome: “We were promised there were WMD’s in Iraq which proved to be a lie.”
Netanyahu knows this because he was one of those liars. He testified to Congress in 2002 that Iraq had WMDs. Charlie Kirk would have known this so the question is: did he include that line as a veiled dig at Netanyahu, or had he simply forgotten?
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Shutdown Showdown Could Hand Trump a Fiscal Blank Check
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Republicans and Democrats have not agreed to terms to extend the federal deficit so it appears that the government shut down will happen beginning on Wednesday.
Vice President JD Vance told reporters on Monday: “I think we’re headed to a shutdown because the Democrats won’t do the right thing.”
Democrats refuse to agree to a stopgap bill to maintain federal funding unless they get to add funding for their wishlist to it. What do they want? The things that Republicans cut in the Big Beautiful Bill.
Think of it this way: Republicans won the 2024 election and made modest cuts to things that they promised voters to cut. Democrats can’t accept those cuts so they are willing to shut down the government to reverse them. It is hostage-taking of the federal workforce.
Democrats could end up shooting themselves in the foot because, as economist Peter St. Onge put it, “If it happens it hands Trump a blank check to terminate every single federal program he doesn’t like. And it instantly puts the Federal budget into surplus.”
And then there’s this: The Guardian reports that “more than 100,000 federal workers are to formally resign on Tuesday, the largest such mass event in U.S. history, as part of a Trump administration program designed to make sweeping cuts to the federal workforce.” But isn’t that exactly what Trump wants? Quite possibly the biggest self-own in U.S. history.
News By The Numbers
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$1 million. That is the top cash prize for McDonald’s Monopoly, which is back! I used to love McDonald’s Monopoly as a kid! My mom would take us for Happy Meals on church nights and – not to brag – but I did win free fries more than once!
19 years. That is how long Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have been married but apparently they won’t get to 20 because the couple is reportedly split up.
19 years. That is also how long Jean Valjean is imprisoned for stealing bread in Les Miserables. That is apropos of nothing but where my mind goes every time I hear “19 years.” Would you rather be in a labor prison for 19 years or be married to Nicole Kidman for 19 years? Something for you to ponder today.
What’s Trending?
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This post by author J.K. Rowling is trending. It lays bare the personal nature of her rift with Harry Potter star Emma Watson, something she’s never spoken publicly about. For longtime fans, it’s heartbreaking; for those who’ve defended women’s rights, it’s a vindicating reminder that those who betrayed women for rejecting gender ideology can’t quietly rewrite history or slip back into good graces with warm words.
Simpsons is trending because a sequel to the movie is reportedly due out in 2027.
Reading Rainbow is trending because the show is coming back with a new host, Mychal Threets, aka Mychal the Librarian.
Young Adults Face Rising Risk of Cancer Overdiagnosis, Study Warns
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A new study in JAMA warns that young people are being overdiagnosed with cancer — meaning they’re being told they have a life-threatening disease when, in many cases, the tumors found might never have caused symptoms or shortened their lives. Well that’s terrifying!
Researchers looked at eight cancers with rising incidence among younger adults. What the authors found was chilling: diagnoses are climbing but death rates are not. In other words, many of these “cancers” may not be deadly at all, yet they are still triggering aggressive treatments, lifelong medications, and the heavy psychological and financial toll of being labeled a cancer patient.
Traditionally, doctors have worried about overdiagnosis in older people, where other health problems are more likely to intervene first. But this study suggests the problem is creeping into younger age groups, raising the risk of unnecessary surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy in patients who might never have needed them. It’s not just a question of wasted resources — it’s a question of harm.
The takeaway is stark: success in cancer care cannot be measured by how many tumors we find. It has to be measured by whether people live longer, healthier lives. Otherwise, a generation of young adults may carry physical, emotional, and financial scars from cancers that never should have been treated in the first place.
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