The Best of the Week’s News

• Department of Homeland Security (DHS) contractors said they were asked to pay Corey Lewandowski bribes, er, “success fees.” (NBC) 
   

• The city of Social Circle, GA cut off water service to a proposed DHS mega-center because officials refused to disclose how the facility would be used. (CBS)
   

• A judge ordered the Veterans Administration to reinstate the contract of its largest union, at least temporarily. (Military Times)
   

• Floridians are being forced to deliver by caesarian section. One woman in labor had to beg a judge for the right to refuse the surgery.  (ProPublica)
   

• Gamblers on Polymarket threatened the life of a journalist who refused to alter his reporting to secure their payouts. (WaPo)
   

• Chinese AI workers endure working conditions close to slavery at the BYD in Brazil. (WaPo)