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WASHINGTONPOST (Karin Brulliard, Brady Dennis) - National Park Service database flags hundreds of items that might ‘disparage’ America

An internal government database reviewed by The Washington Post demonstrates the vast scope of the Trump administration’s ongoing effort to revise or remove information on African American history, climate change and other topics at hundreds of national park sites.

NYTIMES (Mark Mazzetti, Julian E. Barnes, Tyler Pager, Edward Wong, Eric Schmitt and Ronen Bergman) - How Trump Decided to Go to War With Iran

President Trump’s embrace of military action in Iran was spurred by an Israeli leader determined to end diplomatic negotiations. Few of the president’s advisers voiced opposition.

AXIOS (Madison Mills) - Anthropic's Pentagon standoff signals a broader corporate pushback

Corporations are starting to find their backbone: from AI labs resisting military ultimatums to retailers successfully suing the president. Why it matters: The prevailing corporate strategy has been one of high-profile compliance, particularly with the Trump administration. Now, corporates are pushing back, because the cost of that compliance is existential. Driving the news: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei rejected a Friday deadline from the Pentagon to strip safety guardrails from its AI models for military use. - The standoff: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth demanded "unfettered access" to Claude, rebuffing Anthropic's proposed restrictions on mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous lethal targeting. - The threat: The Pentagon…

AXIOS (Courtenay Brown) - The Iran conflict matters more for inflation than growth

Americans will see higher prices for energy in the weeks ahead. They aren't likely to see the kind of broad economic slowdown that has accompanied oil price shocks in the past. The big picture: That's the implication of early market moves following the U.S. and Israeli strikes. It follows logically from a reordering of global energy markets over the last two decades. - Indeed, it's easy to imagine that this new geoeconomics of oil gave President Trump comfort in launching the attacks, grave risks notwithstanding. State of play: For the last half-decade, the U.S. has been a net exporter of oil, reflecting the fracking boom of the 2010s. - That doesn't mean that the U.S. imports no oil, nor that domestic consumers won't pay a price for…