Donald Trump’s Texas rally rocked by repeated protests

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Trump briefly stepped away from the microphone after one protester appeared to approach the stage

Donald Trump’s latest campaign rally was rocked by repeated protests on Wednesday as the US president urged Texas voters to back embattled Senate candidate Ken Paxton.

At least half a dozen demonstrators interrupted the US president during his remarks in San Antonio, with some led away by police. One was physically assaulted by an older Trump supporter as he tried to leave the arena.

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Supreme Court wrestles with fight over Air Force munitions-disposal site on Guam – The Washington Post

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  1. Supreme Court wrestles with fight over Air Force munitions-disposal site on Guam  The Washington Post
  2. US Supreme Court hears challenge to air force UXO detonations in Guam  Al Jazeera
  3. Beach in Guam: Supreme Court Considers if Military Can Explode Bombs in This Habitat  The New York Times
  4. Neil Gorsuch corrects Trump DOJ lawyer during Supreme Court arguments  Yahoo
  5. The Other Big Environmental Case at the Supreme Court  Legal Planet
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10/7 demonstrators march on Capitol Hill to mark three years of Gaza war — UPDATE – CHS Capitol Hill Seattle News

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  1. 10/7 demonstrators march on Capitol Hill to mark three years of Gaza war — UPDATE  CHS Capitol Hill Seattle News
  2. Europe sees fragmented pro-Palestinian protests on the three year anniversary of October 7  The Jerusalem Post
  3. Multiple demonstrations in Seattle 3 years after October 7 attack  FOX 13 Seattle
  4. Protesters in Colombia rally against ties with Israel  Al Jazeera
  5. Philadelphia Jewish organizations condemn planned Oct. 7 demonstration in Rittenhouse Square  6abc Philadelphia
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OpenAI used AI to help write email warning Australian government AI had hacked its websites

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Exclusive: Revelation comes after executive told parliamentary inquiry he did not believe AI had been used to write message, but was ‘happy to go and confirm’

OpenAI used AI to help write the email to the Australian government advising that its AI agent had hacked into key departmental websites, Guardian Australia can reveal.

On Tuesday, one of the company’s executives told a parliamentary inquiry that he didn’t believe that its own technology had been used to create the email, but said the company needed to confirm this.

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Lithuania to deploy troops along border with Russia’s Kaliningrad after Latvia incident – The Kyiv Independent

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  1. Lithuania to deploy troops along border with Russia's Kaliningrad after Latvia incident  The Kyiv Independent
  2. Lithuanian PM calls for NATO plan to counter Russia’s hybrid attacks  Politico
  3. Lithuania Requests Military Deployment to Guard Border Near Russian Exclave  UNITED24 Media
  4. Lithuania Sends Troops to Border Over Putin Mobilization Concern  Bloomberg.com
  5. Lithuania deployed army to protect border with Kaliningrad region  Наша Ніва
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Rubio in Greece digs into past to tout Trump’s ‘America first’ approach

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In the shadow of the Parthenon, the secretary of state gave a selective reading of history as he urged Europe to ‘awaken from its slumber’

The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, delivered a classically inspired apologia for Donald Trump’s “America first” foreign policy on Wednesday, giving a sweeping speech to the backdrop of the Parthenon in Athens that appeared tailor-made for campaign ads if he runs for president in 2028.

In the speech, the top US diplomat drew historical parallels from the founders, philosophers and conquerers of antiquity to the modern American spirit – as well as his family’s own journey to the United States – as he called on Europe to “awaken from its long slumber” and reject a “future of atrophy and servitude and decline”.

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Family of student who took his own life say university ‘will be held to account’

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Ethan Scott Brown died after being wrongly told he would not be eligible to graduate from the University of Glasgow

The family of a student who took his own life after being wrongly told he would not be eligible to graduate have said the University of Glasgow “will be held to account”.

Ethan Scott Brown, 23, was due to graduate in December 2024 after studying geography.

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