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April 25 Overnight Brief
In the UK
Keir Starmer is facing renewed pressure to apologise over grooming gang prosecution failures, after Conservative MP Chris Philp cited cases from his time as Director of Public Prosecutions, including Rochdale. The Home Office says the inquiry will use its statutory powers to get to the truth, while former detective Maggie Oliver is calling for Starmer to give evidence under oath. Meanwhile, Greggs is trialling store layouts that keep food and drink behind the counter, after rising shoplifting and attacks on staff pushed the chain to remove self-service fridges in some branches.
In Gaza
Israeli forces killed 12 Palestinians in multiple attacks across Gaza, including six police officers. The strikes are part of the wider, continuing assault on the territory, which remains dangerously unstable and deeply lethal.
In U.S. security and policy
The U.S. military says it killed two people in a strike on an alleged drug boat in the eastern Pacific, part of its counter-narcotics campaign. Southern Command posted video of the explosion and says the broader operation has killed at least 178 people since September. Separately, Maine Governor Janet Mills vetoed a bill that would have imposed a statewide moratorium on new data centers, saying she supports studying the issue but not freezing a major redevelopment project tied to jobs and investment.
At the same time, CISA has issued an emergency directive after finding a Cisco backdoor on a federal network, warning that the flaw can survive reboots, upgrades, and standard fixes. Federal agencies now have to check edge devices used for firewall and VPN security. In Washington, leaked reporting suggests a Pentagon memo could point to U.S. support for Argentina’s claim to the Falkland Islands, which is exactly the kind of memo that tends to set off several capitals at once.
In tech
OpenAI has apologized after failing to alert police before a fatal shooting in British Columbia, saying it had identified the account through abuse-detection systems but decided it did not meet the threshold for a legal referral at the time. British Columbia Premier David Eby said the company had a chance to help prevent the attack. The case is now putting some hard light on how these systems decide when to speak up and when to stay silent.
In science
Researchers at Penn State say a new lattice calculation has resolved the long-running mismatch in the muon’s magnetic moment, bringing theory into line with experiment to 11 digits. That closes off one of the more promising hints of new physics, and leaves the Standard Model looking, annoyingly, correct.
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