The Best of the Week’s News

• U.S. employers spend more than $1.5 billion dollars a year on union-busting. (Guardian)
   

• Senate Republicans check Trump’s insurrectionist slush fund, his boondoggle ballroom, and ICE funding as the House GOP kills a vote on his war powers they knew they would lose. (CNBC, NPR)
   

• The U.S. and Israel schemed to put Iran’s Holocaust-denying pro-nuke former president in charge of the country, but may have hit him with an airstrike during a botched jailbreak. (NYT)
   

• Samsung workers in South Korea avert a strike after six months of “all-out struggle” for a fair share of AI profits. (AP)
   

• Trump’s war on data. (NYT, video)
   

• Elon Musk’s harvest of death. (Prospect)

The Best of the Week’s News

• Why do major newspapers have business sections but not labor sections? (DC Report)
   

• Jeff Bezos wants to halve the budget of the Washington Post’s newsroom and double its productivity. (NYT)
   

• More babies are bleeding to death because parents are refusing lifesaving Vitamin K shots. (ProPublica)
   

• Hacker uses Morse code to scam $200,000 from Elon Musk’s Grok AI. (Dexterto)
   

• Trump tries to dodge his $83 million defamation judgment from E. Jean Carroll. (AP)