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President Trump鈥檚 birthright citizenship order was paused. A federal judge in New Hampshire issued a preliminary injunction Thursday blocking the order ending birthright citizenship and certified a class action lawsuit including all children who will be affected. The ruling puts the issue on a fast track to return to the Supreme Court. 鈥� The Associated Press
Our coverage: We looked at how Mr. Trump鈥檚 birthright citizenship order is traveling through the courts.

Kurdish separatist fighters began laying down weapons. The Kurdistan Workers鈥� Party, or PKK, has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey. A symbolic ceremony Friday in northern Iraq was the first concrete step toward a promised disarmament. The PKK announced in May it would disband, ending four decades of hostilities. 鈥� AP

Canada is facing a 35% tariff threat. President Trump said in a Thursday letter he will raise taxes on many imported goods from Canada, deepening a rift between the two nations that have suffered a blow to their decades-old alliance. Meanwhile, Brazil vowed retaliatory tariffs if Mr. Trump follows through with the 50% tariffs announced this week. 鈥� AP

The State Department told staff to expect layoffs. The workforce cuts and reorganization of the diplomatic corps are part of a wider effort to reduce the size of the federal government. A recent Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for the layoffs to start. Critics say they could lessen American influence globally. 鈥� AP

A humanitarian crisis continues in Sudan. The International Criminal Court believes war crimes and crimes against humanity are continuing to take place in Sudan鈥檚 western Darfur region where civil war is raging, the tribunal鈥檚 deputy prosecutor said Thursday. Sudan plunged into conflict in April 2023. 鈥� AP
Our coverage: We visited the community kitchens shutting down in Sudan 鈥� and a village celebrating love amid war.

A flood-warning system in Texas went unfunded. Over the last decade, local and state agencies missed opportunities to fund a flood warning system intended to avert the type of disaster that swept away dozens of youth campers and others in Kerr County, Texas. In nearby Comfort, a three-minute warning sound signifying flood danger helped evacuate the town of 2,000 people. 鈥� AP

All workers escaped a tunnel collapse in LA. The city fire department says 31 construction workers are safely out of an industrial tunnel that partially collapsed. The workers on Wednesday night were 400 feet underground and near the coast, as much as 6 miles away from the only entrance. Some had to scramble over a tall mound of debris to squeeze out. 鈥� AP

A Paris school caretaker became a national hero.聽When a neighbor鈥檚 home filled with smoke last Friday, Fousseynou Samba Ciss茅 jumped onto a sixth-floor ledge and pulled those trapped inside through the window to safety. He rescued six people, including two babies, earning him a call from French President Emmanuel Macron this week. 鈥淚 didn鈥檛 hesitate,鈥� Mr. Ciss茅 told Radio France. His bravery has reminded France of聽Mamoudou Gassama (dubbed 鈥淟e Spiderman鈥�)聽鈥� another immigrant who saved a child dangling from a balcony in 2018. 鈥� Staff

Floods, fires, raids, protests, and now lawsuits. Our reporters take a look at how Los Angeles is faring with this drumbeat of challenges, including the recent pressure from the Trump administration, and what the path forward might look like. For now, though, many migrants 鈥� both documented and unauthorized 鈥� are hunkered down at home, afraid to venture out to work, shop, eat at restaurants, or attend church. Immigrant advocates, and some surrounding city governments, are springing into action with aid for families.

President Donald Trump鈥檚 threat to impose a 50% tariff on Brazilian imports seems of a piece with his broader tariff strategy. But Mr. Trump is also using tariffs as a cudgel against a country whose former leader, Jair Bolsonaro, faces trial for a coup attempt. Mr. Trump, a Bolsonaro ally, is crying 鈥渨itch hunt.鈥� The U.S. tariffs, due to take effect Aug. 1, represent a melding of Mr. Trump鈥檚 鈥減ersonal feelings ... with U.S. interests and viewing them as one and the same,鈥� one analyst says. 鈥淲e just haven鈥檛 seen that before.鈥�

It鈥檚 been a roller coaster week for Ukraine, with U.S. military aid first paused, then reinstated. The shifts follow President Donald Trump鈥檚 increasingly frosty signals to Russian President Vladimir Putin about his intransigence over peace efforts. Mr. Putin has had little incentive to negotiate, 鈥渂ecause from his point of view, he鈥檚 winning,鈥� says retired Col. Mark Cancian, senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. 鈥淚 think Trump may have recognized this.鈥�

As a candidate, Donald Trump promised to be the president to end all wars. But that pledge depends on convincing Russia and Israel that military force alone will never prevail. Both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are proving to be a very tough audience. Mr. Putin 鈥渏ust seems like he wants to ... keep killing people,鈥� Mr. Trump lamented last week. Mr. Netanyahu also seems reluctant to embrace the president鈥檚 view of the political limits 鈥� and political perils 鈥� of waging war.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long sold himself to the Israeli public as 鈥淢r. Security.鈥� Hamas鈥� devastating Oct. 7 attack, for which the Israeli leader has not taken responsibility, stained his record. Now he鈥檚 hoping the war with Iran has rehabilitated his image. And a possible bid for reelection is clearly in the air, as the nation鈥檚 longest-serving prime minister makes high-profile stops with powerful optics, including Monday鈥檚 White House dinner with President Donald Trump.

For a club of women walkers in Las Vegas, even the desert heat doesn鈥檛 deter their weekly gathering. Many of them have sought out the conversation and companionship 鈥� a sneaker-clad effort to strengthen the social fabric of the area. The group鈥檚 founder, Jasna Zejnilagic, wasn鈥檛 thinking about running clubs when she started Girls Walk Vegas last summer. It was another realization that put the idea in motion: 鈥淲e鈥檙e always either spending money, eating, or drinking,鈥� she says. That鈥檚 when she and two friends started the club 鈥� and momentum quickly grew.

In some 900 years, might the Russians and Ukrainians exchange a grand work of art about their current war, as a lasting treasure of a violent past that eventually yielded to peace?

Might the Israelis and Palestinians do the same? Perhaps the Indians and Pakistanis? Or any other peoples in an ongoing conflict?

If any do exchange an artistic artifact about a bygone conflict, a model for it was set this week.

On Tuesday, France announced it will lend Britain the famed Bayeux Tapestry starting in late 2026. The 230-foot-long wool embroidery from the 11th century depicts a narrative about the conquest of England by a French nobleman, including the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The war, won by William the Conqueror of Normandy, was the last time England had been totally and successfully invaded.

Modern ties between Paris and London have been so close for so long that French President Emmanuel Macron decided that the fragile needlework, with its 58 scenes of 626 medieval characters and 202 horses, was worth a nine-month showing at the British Museum.

In return, Britain will lend two artifacts for display in France: a seventh-century helmet from the Germanic Anglo-Saxon people and a 12th-century set of carved chess pieces presumed to be from Norway.

During a state visit to the United Kingdom this week, Mr. Macron said the cultural exchange will be a symbol of a relationship grounded in 鈥渦niversalism鈥� that overshadows differences and will perhaps bring 鈥渁 new era.鈥�

The U.K.鈥檚 culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, said, 鈥淭his loan is a symbol of our shared history with our friends in France, a relationship built over centuries and one that continues to endure.鈥�

Scholars believe the visually rich Bayeux Tapestry was commissioned by the victors, but that it was sewn in England by local seamstresses. That helps explain why the losing side under Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king, is depicted with some sympathy.

鈥淭here is no other single item in British history that is so familiar, so studied in schools, so copied in art as the Bayeux Tapestry,鈥� said George Osborne, chair of the British Museum trustees, in a statement.

A few scholars suggest the work is a peace offering for the people who survived. Indeed, the cultures and languages of the Normans and Anglo-Saxons did weave together over time. Art often serves as a peace-builder. It can reconcile former enemies by depicting the shared emotions after a conflict, leading to an empathy that may last centuries.