The Best of the Week’s News

• From the unitary executive to Jeffrey Epstein: The death of elite accountability (Atlantic)
   

• The FBI raids the home of the superintendent of LA schools after with AI chatbot fiasco. (LAT)
   

• Chicago ICE protesters keep winning in court. (CST)
   

• The Trump tax cuts pushed Medicare closer to insolvency, slashing 12 years off the lifespan of Part A. (Fortune)
   

• Volkswagen workers in Tennessee approve their first union contract. (NPR)
   

• Pentagon and Anthropic face off over control of contracted AI technology as Anthropic demands assurances their tech won’t be used for mass surveillance or autonomous drone ops. (NYT)
   

• Jeanine Pirro’s office refuses to press charges, but the Labor Secretary’s husband remains banned from the building after alleged sexual assaults on staffers. (WaPo)