TODAY’S NEWS FLASH:
Political Landscape
Whistleblower's texts suggest Trump judicial nominee Emil Bove urged lawyer to defy court order
A week before an expected committee vote on the controversial nomination of Trump ally Emil Bove for a federal judgeship, CBS News has obtained emails and text messages shared with Congress by a whistleblower who accuses Bove of unethical actions while he was a top Justice Department official this year.
GOP Sen. Thom Tillis says Hegseth is 'out of his depth' as defense secretary
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., strongly criticized Pete Hegseth in an interview, saying that the defense secretary is “out of his depth” in his role overseeing the nation’s military and that his decision to halt weapons shipments to Ukraine was “amateurish.”
Global Impact
Ukrainian spy agency officer shot dead with silenced pistol in Kyiv, reports say
Ukraine said that one of its security service members was killed Thursday in central Kyiv, in what appeared to be the most recent targeted attack on security personnel since Russia invaded.
Iran’s threat to UK on a par with Russia’s, security report finds
Iran’s intimidation, including the fear of physical attack and assassination of Iranian dissidents living in the UK, is comparable in scale to the threat posed by Russia, parliament’s intelligence and security committee has found.
Economic Pulse
OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome
OpenAI is close to releasing an AI-powered web browser that will challenge Alphabet’s market-dominating Google Chrome, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Trump’s 50% Levy on Brazil Shows World Nothing Is Off Limits
Donald Trump threatened to impose a 50% tariff on Brazil over its domestic political affairs, the most extreme case yet of the US president weaponizing trade policy to make unrelated demands.
Quick Takes
Ed Sheeran is thinking out loud about how his friendship with Taylor Swift influenced his unlikely NFL fandom.
A world-leading nutritionist - Kinsey Jackson, MS, CN, CFMP - has uncovered a brand-new "chocolate trick" that helps regenerate your liver back to health.
Humanity’s burning of fossil fuels directly led to the deaths of at least 1,500 people in a European heat wave last week, a study published Wednesday said.
A teenage Australian surfer feared lost at sea was rescued Thursday after spending the night on an uninhabited island miles offshore, officials and local media said.
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