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A pilot stabbed his co-pilot mid-flight and tried to crash a FlyDubai jet carrying dozens of Israelis, plunging 16,000 feet in under a minute before passengers and crew broke into the cockpit and wrestled control back. The plane made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia, where the attacker was arrested.

— via PBS NewsHour, Samy Magdy, Associated Press

A storm's remnants left small New Mexico towns evacuating over fears a dam could fail, as floodwaters swamped roadways across the Southwest.

— via NPR, The Associated Press

Switzerland's glaciers lost more than 5% of their ice this year alone, a record rate of melt. The disappearance threatens water supplies, ecosystems and communities across Europe.

— via NPR, Imogen Foulkes

Pew tried letting an AI model impersonate thousands of real survey panelists, feeding it their demographics and past answers, then asking it to predict how they'd respond to new questions. The synthetic results missed the real human answers by a consistent margin across all three survey waves tested.

— via Pew Research, Janakee Chavda

Pew tested whether an AI model playing "digital twins" of real survey panelists could reproduce actual poll results, feeding it personas built from demographic data and prior answers. The model, Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6, repeatedly failed to pick up on real shifts in public opinion, especially around fast-moving news events.

— via Pew Research, Joy Li

The Fed's own watchdog clears Jerome Powell of criminal wrongdoing in the headquarters renovation controversy. Also in the day's wrap: Hegseth moves to cut the Pentagon's generals and admirals by about 20%, and Russian strikes kill at least seven in Ukraine, including a child.

— via PBS NewsHour

A Cornell rape lawsuit exposes a familiar failure: officers untrained in how trauma actually affects memory and behavior. Experts say most departments still lack trauma-informed protocols, leaving survivors' accounts misread as inconsistent or unreliable.

— via NPR, Jaclyn Diaz

Backpack, son of past champion Holly, took Fat Bear Week with more than 100,000 votes, edging Bear 910 with just over 50% in the final poll. Known for avoiding brawls and lounging on riverside rocks, the gentle giant beat out 15 other bears, including five family groups, in the contest's 12th year.

— via PBS NewsHour, Jaimie Ding, Associated Press

An hour before she would have become the first woman executed in Tennessee in over 200 years, a federal appeals court halted Christa Gail Pike's lethal injection to examine claims her childhood rape and abuse were never fully weighed at sentencing. The state has already appealed the 2-1 stay to the Supreme Court.

— via PBS NewsHour, Kim Chandler, Associated Press

Hegseth is doubling last spring's cuts to the military's top brass, ordering a 20% reduction in generals and admirals by January 2027. Some senators call it overdue accountability; others call it a purge that will take a generation to undo.

— via PBS NewsHour, Konstantin Toropin, Associated Press

Bear 910 and Backpack are the last two standing in Katmai National Park's 12th annual Fat Bear Week, and voters decide the winner Tuesday. Last year's champ Chunk, once 1,200 pounds, got knocked out in round one.

— via PBS NewsHour, Jaimie Ding, Associated Press

Prosecutors say a DoorDash driver shot by an ICE agent in Austin struck an officer with his side mirror while fleeing, but the officer who fired never wore a body camera. The nine-page affidavit echoes past claims of drivers "weaponizing" vehicles, allegations that have unraveled before once footage surfaces.

— via PBS NewsHour, Anna Wilder, Associated Press/Report For America

Lindsay Clancy's lawyer isn't leaning on an insanity defense anymore. After a trial built around her mental state, the new argument is simpler: prosecutors never proved she killed her three children at all.

— via NPR, The Associated Press

Lindsay Clancy's attorney now says there isn't enough evidence to prove she killed her three children, after a trial that never disputed she did it. With the jury deadlocked 11-1 for acquittal, he's asking the judge to throw out the case entirely rather than face a retrial.

— via PBS NewsHour, Michael Casey, Associated Press

A GOP senator accused Jack Smith of perjury over an alleged Atlanta Hawks trip tied to the Fani Willis scandal. The catch: Smith says he was at a Maryland women's game featuring Caitlin Clark, who played for Iowa, not Atlanta.

— via PBS NewsHour, Sophia Bailly

Pew Research Center spells out exactly where AI stops in its work: no synthetic survey respondents, no AI-written reports, no generated photos. Humans still pick the topics, write the analysis and approve every image, though engineers and researchers do lean on AI for code and grunt work behind the scenes.

— via Pew Research, Beshay Sakla

The FBI says it's chasing down the hackers behind a massive data breach, promising accountability without yet naming a target or a timeline.

— via NPR, Jenna McLaughlin

A Michigan case shows how often care facilities reach for heavy sedatives to control dementia patients, despite years of federal pressure to stop. The fight over one woman's treatment exposes the impossible calculus guardians and families face when calm and safety come at a steep cost.

— via NPR, Jordan Rau

A federal health agency's new report questions decades of standard care for transgender people. Critics say it treats trans identity itself as the problem, not the treatment.

— via NPR, Lisa Hagen

Killing the $7,500 tax credit was supposed to slow EV sales. A year on, the numbers tell a different story.

— via NPR, Willa Rubin