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June 14 0000 UTC Brief
In U.S. politics and tech
President Trump said he will appoint one of his personal lawyers as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, a move that puts a close ally at the top federal prosecutor’s office in Manhattan. A federal judge also ordered the administration to restore slavery-related material at Philadelphia’s President’s House site after changes made under an executive order. And in a separate tech decision, the White House blocked foreign access to Anthropic’s most capable AI models after Amazon raised security concerns about possible cyber abuse, a reminder that the race to deploy AI now comes with the familiar side quest of trying not to hand it to everyone else.
In Britain
Nigel Farage set out a plan to require foreign nationals in council housing to move into private rented homes within three months or face deportation, with Reform UK arguing that British nationals should be prioritized for social housing. The proposal includes exemptions for some vulnerable groups and different rules for dual nationals. The government said illegal migrants, asylum seekers and people on student or work visas are already barred from social housing, and that most councils already use local connection rules.
Separately, the UK and Japan are set to sign an £18 billion investment package when Prime Minister Keir Starmer hosts Sanae Takaichi in London. Ministers say the deal will support tens of thousands of jobs, which is the sort of number governments love because it sounds large enough to be helpful and vague enough to survive contact with reality.
In Europe
In Norway, Marius Borg Høiby is due to appear by video link as the country waits for a verdict in his rape trial, which includes 40 charges and four counts of rape. And in Russia, some families are using AI tools to recreate relatives killed in the war in Ukraine, a grim intersection of grief, conflict and very modern technology.
In the Middle East
Trump said an Iran nuclear deal is “scheduled to be signed” on Sunday and used the announcement to attack the Obama-era agreement, framing the new deal as a way to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
Obituaries
Gene Shalit, the longtime NBC film critic who spent four decades reviewing movies on Today before retiring in 2010, has died at 100.
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