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Bloomberg and CNBC report that the US Treasury selloff has intensified with the 10-year yield hitting multi-year highs. In parallel, the Trump administration has rejected Iran’s latest diplomatic overture, layering geopolitical risk on top of rate pressure and pushing US stocks lower at the open. Investor focus has broadened from rates alone to a multi-factor repricing of the fiscal outlook, inflation expectations and Middle East risk, driving a phase of asset allocation and risk-preference adjustment.

The Washington Post reports that the White House has expanded its taxpayer-funded ad campaign, with new content promoting Trump in a strongman style. The move has triggered fresh controversy over the boundaries of executive resources and public communications, prompting some lawmakers and press-freedom advocates to call for closer oversight of government propaganda spending.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is set to dine with President Trump at the White House, with AI industry policy, regulatory frameworks and frontier model development on the agenda, reflecting tightening ties between frontier AI labs and the executive branch.

According to The Washington Post, the Trump administration is exploring plans to build a roughly 15,000-seat baseball stadium inside Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park as part of a pilot effort to bring professional baseball events into the national park system. The proposal has drawn immediate pushback from environmental groups and members of Congress.

According to The New York Times, President Trump has publicly targeted Florida Republican Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar after she broke with the administration’s immigration stance. The episode has fueled fresh debate within the Republican Party and exposed the tension between moderates and hardliners ahead of the midterms.

The Guardian reports that President Trump told a senior female MS Now reporter to be quiet during a White House briefing after she pressed him on recent changes to the long-standing press pool selection process, triggering renewed concern among press freedom advocates.

According to BBC and NPR, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump administration may continue using a controversial database to verify voter citizenship, partially lifting lower-court injunctions. The decision comes amid an election year and is seen as a new round in the contest between the executive and the judiciary over the boundaries of election power.

President Trump is hosting a state dinner at the White House for visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping, with sea bass as the main course and chiefs of Apple, Google, Nvidia, Meta and other major tech firms on the guest list, according to AP and other outlets. Held against the backdrop of great-power competition and the AI race, the dinner is being framed as a high-level diplomatic moment for both sides to negotiate on trade tensions, Taiwan, and AI governance.

The Washington Post reports that US President Trump welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping at a Washington airport with an unusually personal ceremony; the two leaders agreed to extend their trade truce but left structural differences on AI safety and Taiwan unresolved.

CBS News reports that Iran’s president publicly labeled US military strikes against Iran as cowardly, prompting US President Trump to threaten annihilation in a sharp exchange that has escalated Middle East tensions further.