The Best of the Week’s News
 

• Employees of Microsoft and OpenAI knew they were committing “the largest theft of labor in human history,” court documents show. (NYT)
   

• Trump is sending Somali immigrants with no criminal records to Guantanamo. (Mother Jones)
   

• 52 babies were hospitalized for botulism linked to formula, but the FDA insists the formula supply is safe. (ABC News 7)
   

• A Russian oligarch with ties to Vladimir Putin paid for Donald Trump, Jr.’s tropical wedding celebrations. (ProPublica)
   

• Why does New York City’s police commissioner keep putting the most compromised cops on the most problematic units? (HellGate)
   

• Republican who marched with the Nazis in Charlottesville is expected to win a seat in Florida’s state legislature. (TPM)

The Best of the Week’s News

• The labor movement bids a fond farewell to union sister Dolly Parton. (Nation)
   

• Maria Bartiromo was fired from Fox News, allegedly for leaking to the White House details of the network’s policy of not discussing Trump’s outlandish election conspiracy theories (Daily Beast)
   

• Democrats warn that the Pentagon is so broke that it’s siphoning moneyfrom the National Institutes of Health. (TNR)
   

• Trump’s bribe jet lacks the critical security features needed to fly it outside the U.S., but he wants to take it to Ireland next week. (WaPo)
   

• One of Elon Musk’s DOGE kids applied for college credit for trashing the government. (Wired)

   

• Former Kentucky governor Matt Bevin arrested for contempt of court while working as an extra on a Christian film. (LPM)

The Best of the Week’s News

• A few well-placed attacks could destroy the entire US power grid. (NYT)
   

• The Natalie Harp blunder. (The Atlantic)
   

• MAGA Rep. Max Miller is bleeding union support as he faces serious allegations of child abuse. (Politico, WaPo)

   

• Unions remain defiant in the face of federal surveillance in the wake of anti-ICE protests. (MN Reformer)

   

• DOGE broke the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and fishermen, farmers, insurers, and consumers are paying the price. (Forbes)

The Best of the Week’s News

• Union representing IRS workers sues to stop Trump’s $100 million tax immunity deal, arguing that it would force them to break the law. (AP)
   

• What’s the deal with Trump’s “Freedom Fuel” gas stations? (WaPo)
   

• Climate change dropped the water level in the Danube, now Romania is sinking barges of rocks to bring it back up to keep a nuclear reactor running. (AP)
   

• A St. Louis woman self-deported to Guatemala, weeks later she and her husband were found shot to death in a field. (MoJo)
   

• Trump’s boat strikes in the Caribbean have killed innocent people (ABC)