Trump takes aim at America’s dominant meat processors, Hollywood rallies behind Mark Ruffalo, federal forecasters identify the jobs disappearing fastest, and a robot vacuum catches more than dust.

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President Trump is promising to loosen federal processing rules and give independent ranchers another route around the four companies controlling most American beef production. But can deregulation create real competition without weakening food-safety protections?

More than 180 Jewish artists, filmmakers and faith leaders are defending Mark Ruffalo after Paramount accused him of invoking antisemitic tropes. The clash began over a $111 billion media merger but has grown into a bitter fight involving Israel, corporate power and who gets to define legitimate criticism.

The Labor Department has identified the 30 occupations expected to decline fastest through 2035. Typists, telephone operators and data-entry workers lead the list, while automation threatens hundreds of thousands of clerical, retail and customer-service positions.

Finally, a Taiwanese husband used his robot vacuum to confirm that his wife was cheating. The evidence helped him win in court, but the vacuum’s footage created a serious legal mess of its own. Apparently, smart appliances now come with marital consequences.

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The G20’s guest list triggers an international dispute, researchers test whether readers can recognize AI-generated fiction, an Arctic tourist receives a very expensive lesson in wildlife etiquette, and a hideous Hawaiian shirt exposes a weakness in automated surveillance.

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The United States welcomes Russia back to a major G20 finance meeting while excluding South Africa, an actual member of the group. European officials object, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pushes his economic agenda, and even the official photograph becomes a diplomatic battlefield.

A ship passenger in Norway’s Arctic territory decides to wake a sleeping polar bear with the vessel’s horn. Norwegian authorities respond with a punishment that may qualify as the world’s most expensive alarm-clock bill.

A Villanova University study asks readers to compare human-written short stories with fiction produced by ChatGPT. Their preferences reveal an awkward gap between what people say they value and what they enjoy reading.

A German artist creates an $88 Hawaiian shirt designed to confuse AI surveillance cameras. The garment may look like a fashion crime to humans, but its strange pattern raises serious questions about the reliability of machines increasingly trusted to monitor public spaces.

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A deportation advocate gets deported, an American family allegedly turns cemetery theft into a multistate business, California’s highest court confronts an extraordinary ballot seizure, and science finally gives heavy-metal fans something useful to tell their doctors.

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Milo Yiannopoulos spent years demanding aggressive immigration enforcement. Then ICE detained the former Breitbart provocateur and shipped him back to Britain within roughly 24 hours. Was this routine enforcement, preferential treatment or simply political irony operating at maximum efficiency?

Police say an Indiana mother, her daughter and the daughter’s boyfriend traveled through at least nine states breaking into mausoleum niches. Authorities are still calculating the number of victims in a case involving stolen wedding rings, family heirlooms and one deeply disturbing version of the American road trip.

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco seized approximately 650,000 ballots while investigating claims of election irregularities. California officials say the alleged discrepancy came from misunderstood records, while Bianco insists he acted legally. Now the state Supreme Court must decide who controls ballots after an election and whether a sheriff can conduct his own investigation outside the established recount process.

Finally, German researchers subjected 122 heavy-metal fans to ice-cold water and discovered that festival veterans could endure the pain longer. The music did not make the pain disappear, but several days of roaring guitars and mosh pits apparently made it easier to tolerate. Medical science may never look at Metallica the same way again.

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