After two decades, U.S. forces have withdrawn from Iraq, leaving behind an uncertain future, as reported by Erika Solomon, Falih Hassan, and Eric Schmitt. Meanwhile, OpenAI has reportedly ignored employee warnings about insufficient security measures, according to Sheera Frenkel, Dustin Volz, and Dylan Freedman. At the White House, Trump urged AI titans to police themselves, as Katie Rogers and Cecilia Kang detailed.

The Supreme Court has temporarily allowed rapid third-country deportations, per Abbie Van Sickle, while ICE plans to hire 5,000 new staff to support its deportation drive, as Alexandra Berzon and Hamed Aleaziz reported. In unrelated news, a backpack has been named the fattest of the fat bears by Madison Malone Kircher. The Headlines podcast, hosted by Tracy Mumford, covers these stories in about 10 minutes daily, with production credits to Will Jarvis, Margaret Kadifa, Jake Lucas, and Ian Stewart.