Monday’s got a lot going on. China’s leader is touching down in Washington for the first state visit in over a decade, markets are breathing easier after a rough week, and scientists turned up a planet so young it shouldn’t exist yet. Here are the ten stories worth your ten minutes.
- Xi Jinping arrives in Washington for a high stakes state visit. It’s the first visit by a Chinese leader to the White House in eleven years, and trade, AI and Taiwan are all on the table when he and Trump sit down Thursday.
- Ukraine launches its largest drone attack on Moscow yet. Over 1,000 drones hit Russia the same day Moscow held its first parliamentary election since the war began, a reminder the fighting hasn’t slowed down just because diplomats are talking elsewhere.
- CNN, MS NOW and Politico are suing Trump over their White House ban. CNBC first reported the suit, which argues the ban violates the First Amendment after reporters from all three outlets were turned away from the grounds over the weekend.
- Wall Street opened the week higher as oil prices dropped. Falling crude and optimism about the Trump Xi summit and cooling Iran tensions sent futures climbing across the Dow, S&P and Nasdaq.
- Intel shares jumped on a new AI chip packaging deal with AUO. The partnership targets next generation optical connections for AI data centers, and it’s the latest sign investors are buying into Intel’s turnaround story.
- LG is pushing back on claims its smart TVs are secretly listening. Independent researchers say the sets log far more than they should, even in standby mode, though LG insists nothing gets recorded without its wake word being triggered first.
- Astronomers confirmed the youngest planet ever found. Elias 2-24 b is less than a million years old and still gathering material from the dust around its star, and it’s already forcing scientists to rethink how giant planets form so fast.
- Scientists found a hidden immune organ inside the skull. Researchers at WashU discovered lymph node like structures in mouse skulls that act as first responders against brain cancer, and they found hints the same thing exists in humans.
- SpaceX’s $100 billion Louisiana rocket site is worrying its new neighbors. State officials fast tracked the deal and signed nondisclosure agreements along the way, and some locals are uneasy about what thousands of planned rocket launches will mean for the area.
- Trump warned he could “blow the entire nation up” over Iran. The Independent reported the comments, which raise the stakes just as Iran’s president heads to the UN General Assembly this week hoping for a diplomatic opening instead.
That’s the day. See you tomorrow.

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