By Fang Binxing,James P. Sutton,Peter Gattuso,Ross Anderson

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A 22-year-old man, Tyler Robinson, was arrested late Thursday night for the suspected murder of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk. The nearly 33-hour manhunt came to an end after Robinson’s father reportedly recognized him from the FBI suspect photographs and confronted him. According to current reporting, the suspect’s father called a local youth pastor and ultimately persuaded Robinson to turn himself in. While officials said Robinson confessed to his father before being apprehended, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said on Sunday that “he has not confessed to authorities” and “is not cooperating,” though those around him are.

More than 500 gigabytes of internal documents from China’s Great Firewall leaked online on Thursday, with researchers confirming over the weekend that the leak exposed tens of thousands of pages of documents, along with source code and work logs from the censorship system’s core developers. The leaked materials originated from Geedge Networks—led by Fang Binxing, the “father of the Great Firewall”—and the MESA Lab at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, revealing systems that monitor internet traffic and algorithms to detect and block virtual private networks (VPNs). Documents show the company has exported censorship technology to Burma, Pakistan, Ethiopia, and Kazakhstan under China’s Belt and Road Initiative, including a ready-to-use system called Tiangou, which has been deployed across 26 data centers in Burma. The breach represents the largest leak in the Great Firewall’s history, potentially exposing vulnerabilities in surveillance systems used by multiple authoritarian regimes.

Romanian officials said late on Saturday that a Russian drone had entered its airspace, prompting the Romanian Air Force to deploy two fighter jets to monitor it. The Russian drone “did not overfly populated areas and did not pose an imminent threat to the civilian population,” according to the Romanian Defense Ministry, but it marked the second such incursion of a NATO ally this month, with at least 19 Russian drones entering Polish airspace last week. In a social media post early Saturday morning, President Donald Trump said he was ready to impose additional sanctions on Russia “when all NATO Nations have agreed, and started, to do the same thing, and when all NATO Nations STOP BUYING OIL FROM RUSSIA.”

Former Nepali Supreme Court Chief Justice Sushila Karki was sworn in as interim prime minister on Friday, days after youth-led, anti-government protests and riots led to the resignation of the country’s now-former prime minister, K.P. Sharma Oli. Karki, known for targeting government corruption while serving on the Supreme Court, said she would hold the position for only six months and then hand over power to new leaders following elections in March. “I did not wish for this job,” she said. “It was after voices from the streets that I was compelled to accept.” At least 72 people have been killed and more than 1,300 others injured after crowds gathered to protest a recently enacted law that blocked several major social media platforms from operating in the country for failing to register with the government, which has since been repealed.

An agent with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Friday shot and killed a suspected illegal immigrant about 20 miles west of Chicago who federal officials said attempted to resist arrest by driving his car into law enforcement. “One of the ICE officers was hit by the car and dragged a significant distance,” the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement. “Fearing for his own life, the officer fired his weapon.” The statement added that the suspect, later identified as 38-year-old Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, had a history of reckless driving. Villegas-Gonzalez was transported to a nearby hospital and, soon after, was pronounced dead. The ICE agent sustained multiple injuries, per DHS, but is in stable condition.

Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook, whom Trump is attempting to fire over claims of alleged mortgage fraud, had listed one of her properties in Atlanta as a “vacation home” rather than a primary residence, according to documents obtained by several news outlets on Saturday. Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte first accused Cook of mortgage fraud last month, indicating that she had listed both her Atlanta and Michigan homes as primary residences and prompting Trump to order her removal. Cook, who remains in her post after a judge temporarily blocked Trump from firing her, is suing Trump for what she says is unlawfully removing her without “cause,” but the Trump administration said in court filings on Sunday that the allegations against her are a “reasonable” reason for removal.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin proposed a federal rule on Friday to repeal the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, which requires more than 8,000 power plants, oil refineries, steel mills, and other industrial facilities to submit annual emissions reports, describing it as “nothing more than bureaucratic red tape that does nothing to improve air quality.” According to a statement from the EPA, ending the program, which began in 2010, will save “American businesses up to $2.4 billion in regulatory costs.” Specifically, it added, the proposed rule intends to “remove reporting obligations for most large facilities, all fuel and industrial gas suppliers, and CO2 injection sites.”

Trump announced on Friday that he will deploy the National Guard to Memphis, Tennessee, which he described as a city “deeply troubled” with crime. While the president claimed that both Tennessee’s Republican Gov. Bill Lee and Memphis’ Democratic Mayor Paul Young indicated they were “happy” about the plan, Young balked at the plan during a Friday news conference. “I want to be clear, I did not ask for the National Guard, and I don’t think it’s the way to drive down crime,” he told reporters. “However, they are coming.” Meanwhile, Lee tweeted that the plan will further assist an “ongoing FBI mission” in Memphis to “that has already arrested hundreds of the most violent offenders.” Memphis has the highest crime rate of any American city, with 2,501 violent crimes per 100,000 people, according to FBI data, and 145 murders this year alone. In June, a man was charged with attempting to kidnap Mayor Young.