Elon Musk said a merger of Tesla and SpaceX would be a good idea and disclosed that special committees have been formed to assess a potential deal that would combine the two largest private and public companies he controls.

Brad Lander, a Democratic candidate for Congress in New York, said Israeli forces detained him while he helped Palestinian farmers harvest olives, in what two Israeli lawyers told NPR was the largest mass detention of activists in the West Bank in at least a decade.

Russia released Stephen Hubbard, a 74-year-old retired American teacher jailed on mercenary charges, as President Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff opened talks with Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg.

The justices denied an emergency request from the Trump administration, keeping in place a lower court order that requires federal prisons to continue gender-affirming care for transgender inmates while litigation continues.