New York Times: “Using tips from chatbots, mechanics modified the motorcycles to allow for faster acceleration and top speed. The riders dug their own holes, filled them with broken glass and fire, and practiced jumps — sometimes with fatal outcomes — until they achieved enough aerial liftoff to mount a successful attack, defectors said.”

“The episode, recounted in a research paper by Dr. Juelich shared with The New York Times ahead of its publication on Friday, highlights how generative artificial intelligence tools are increasingly aiding terrorist groups directly on the battlefield, experts say, despite efforts by their makers to safeguard them from misuse.”

“On the morning after Charlie Kirk was fatally shot on a Utah college campus, Tyler Robinson’s roommate and romantic partner said the man paced around their St. George townhouse, seemingly trying to keep himself busy and distracted,” Salt Lake Tribune reports.

“Lance Twiggs said in a video interview played in court Thursday that he asked Robinson if what he had texted the night before was true: that he was the shooter.”

Said Twiggs: “He said it was. He started crying a little bit and said he wishes he hadn’t done it.”

Axios: MAGA figures flock to Charlie Kirk murder hearing.

“The recent sexual assault allegations against Graham Platner aren’t just the political flashpoint that forced a rising populist Democrat to suspend a major Senate campaign. They also potentially amount to criminal conduct,” USA Today reports.

“Jenny Racicot, 41, had been casually dating Platner for about two years when he came to the home where she was staying in 2021 and sexually assaulted her, while she repeatedly told him to stop, according to allegations she made in interviews with Politico and CNN.”

“Those allegations could constitute gross sexual assault, a felony crime in Maine law used to prosecute rape, according to William T. Bly, a Maine criminal defense lawyer. However, he said Racicot, who didn’t report the incident to law enforcement in 2021, would need to decide now that she wants to report it.”

“Three more people have been criminally charged with destruction of property at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool,” CNN reports.

“Former Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan was spared from prison Wednesday for ushering a Mexican defendant out of her courtroom to evade U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents,” the Associated Press reports.

“A federal judge fined her $5,000 and cited her otherwise law-abiding life in issuing the sentence.”

“Andrew Gillum — the ex-politician who lost to Ron DeSantis by a slim margin in the 2018 Florida governor’s race — was arrested last week in Alabama on drug offenses,” TMZ reports.

“A federal judge ruled Monday that President Donald Trump’s expansive pardon of January 6 rioters does not apply to a Virginia man accused of planting two pipe bombs in Washington, DC, the night before the 2021 US Capitol insurrection,” CNN reports.

“Prosecutors say Brian Cole Jr. placed bombs near the Republican and Democratic national committees’ headquarters on the night of January 5, 2021. His attorneys argued in March that Cole should be covered by Trump’s pardon because the alleged conduct is ‘is so inextricably and demonstrably tethered to’ the events at the Capitol on January 6.”

Politico: “Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Sunday aired his frustrations with the continued attention that the botched renovation of the reflecting pool has received and doubled down on the Trump administration’s claim that vandals are to blame for its condition.”

“Federal prosecutors are recommending a relatively light prison sentence for a man who pleaded guilty to securities fraud in the notorious $100 million New Jersey deli stock manipulation case — and some of their reasons for doing so are hidden,” CNBC reports.

“The U.S. Attorney’s Office for New Jersey, in a new court filing, conceded that the sentencing guidelines suggest a prison term between 70 and 87 months for the defendant, James Patten.”

“The Louisiana Supreme Court on Friday halted the criminal case against state Attorney General Liz Murrill a day after she was indicted on accusations that she threatened the jobs of officials in New Orleans,” Associated Press reports.

“The state’s top court said the local court and special prosecutor in the case did not follow proper procedures in the process surrounding the indictment — including multiple local media reports that the court handcuffed and locked out a journalist attempting to report on the grand jury action.”

“U.S. Olympic canoeist David ‘Davey’ Hearn was indicted Thursday on a single count of destruction of property following his arrest last month at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool,” NBC News reports.

“A three-person Minnesota panel including Gov. Tim Walz granted a pardon to an immigrant convicted of sexually abusing a child, drawing accusations that he and other Democrats are impeding federal efforts to expel dangerous foreign criminals eligible for deportation,” the New York Times reports.

“The Minnesota Board of Pardons granted the reprieve on June 10 to Tou Lue Vang, 42, who came to the United States as a child and was set to be deported to Laos imminently. Mr. Vang had submitted a letter to the board expressing regret for the actions that led to his 2005 conviction, and said a pardon could help him stay in the country with his wife and six children.”

“Kash Patel may have flouted legal constraints and the FBI’s disciplinary code in prematurely divulging arrests in an alleged plot to attack this month’s Ultimate Fighting Championship bout at the White House, bureau veterans have alleged,” The Guardian reports.

“The FBI director was accused of ‘jumping the gun’ by posting details on social media of five arrests in an investigation carried out in conjunction with the Secret Service.”

“It subsequently emerged the inquiry was sealed by a court order, theoretically constraining Patel from publicly disclosing it.”

“Guo Wengui, a Chinese businessman who transformed himself from a Beijing insider into an anti-Communist crusader and ally of the American far right, was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Monday for defrauding investors, including many of his own fervent supporters, of hundreds of millions of dollars,” the New York Times reports. 

“Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was the target of an anonymous report that police determined was false and that he says forced him to spend a night away from his four-year-old twins,” Associated Press reports.

Buttigieg writes about the incident: “Someone decided to hurt our family this week. I’m furious, and I want to share what happened.”