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New data center construction projects are springing up across the United States, as the tech industry seeks to meet huge computing demand to power artificial intelligence and the massive volume of content now stored online. Tech leaders have said the projects will bring jobs and other benefits to local communities. And they frame new data centers as essential to America winning the global AI race. But Americans are increasingly wary about that push. A growing movement to block new AI data centers has spread around the country.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/11/tech/ai-data-centers-neighbors-reaction-callout
Academy Award-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow is facing backlash online after the Hollywood A-lister and lifestyle entrepreneur starred in an advertisement for a luxury Israeli real estate project. The 53-year-old actress appears in the promotion for 51 Park, a 51-story real estate project in the coastal city of Herzliya, just north of Tel Aviv. In the ad, which was shot in New York and released this week, Paltrow says, “There’s a reason the world’s most iconic buildings are by a park. 51 Park.” Asked if the building is in New York, she says, “Herzliya. Israel.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/11/middleeast/gwyneth-paltrow-israel-herzliya-intl-latam
President Donald Trump on Thursday nominated Jay Clayton, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, to be his next director of national intelligence. “Few people anywhere in the Legal Community are respected at the level of Jay,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “I encourage the United States Senate to confirm Jay as soon as possible.” The selection of Clayton — who served as head of the Securities and Exchange Commission during Trump’s first term — comes amid a firestorm over Trump’s earlier decision to make top housing official Bill Pulte the acting national intelligence chief following the planned departure of Tulsi Gabbard.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/11/politics/jay-clayton-director-national-intelligence
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer suffered a fresh blow on Thursday after Secretary of Defense John Healey resigned over a budget dispute, saying the government is not willing to give the British Armed Forces the “resources they need.” Soon after, Minister of State for the Armed Forces Al Carns also announced his resignation in a letter posted to X, saying that the government is “failing” to give the armed forces what they need to do the job and the “loyalty to stand by them when it’s done.” Starmer, whose government’s popularity has collapsed just two years after a landslide general election victory, has been under pressure recently from within his own party.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/11/uk/john-healey-uk-defense-secretary-resigns-intl
The numbers “8647” — a phrase generally used to signal opposition to President Donald Trump — appeared etched into the grass on the National Mall on Thursday, days before massive crowds are expected in the area for a UFC match on Trump’s birthday on Sunday. Live webcam images from the top of the Washington Monument show the numbers appearing as dead grass along a large portion of the Mall, east of the World War II Memorial. It’s not clear when the markings first appeared. The numbers were not visible in photos from Getty Images of the National Mall taken on June 5. The markings did not appear to be easily distinguishable from the ground level Thursday afternoon. Witnesses said several emergency vehicles blocked off the area around 1 p.m., while the US Army Golden Knights parachute team landed on the Mall.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/11/politics/8647-grass-national-mall