Today's five.

Dropping into Dublin for a golf tournament, Trump told the Irish that reunification sounds "fantastic" and will "happen eventually" — remarks that landed like a grenade in a conversation nobody asked him to join. Northern Irish unionist politicians rejected the comments immediately. UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham had just said the issue was off the table. ABC led with the Northern Ireland fallout; Bloomberg led with Irish leaders trying to smooth things over. Trump added he didn't mean to cause problems, which is the kind of thing you say right after causing problems. The 1998 Good Friday Agreement already has a process for this. Nobody needed the assist.

The US women's basketball team nearly let Spain ruin a perfectly good dynasty. Tied at 58 heading into the fourth quarter, the four-time defending champions finally pulled away 76-66 — extending their World Cup winning streak to 35 straight games, dating back to a 2006 semifinal loss to Russia. Now they face France in a rematch of the Paris Olympic final they won by a single point. The Las Vegas Review-Journal focused on Aces players Jackie Young and Chelsea Gray; everyone else focused on the streak. Stewart's message to the team going in: turn the page. Easy to say when you keep winning.

Twenty-five years later, a man in Hyde Park walked outside, looked west, and saw light reaching into the sky — Dedham's way of marking the night before the anniversary. Barnes Memorial Park held 2,977 flags, one for each person killed. National Review's framing was about September 12th — the grief and fury of the day after — not the towers falling, but what came next. Both framings are doing the same thing: insisting that the emotional weight of that week doesn't compress neatly into a single date. It never did.

Two CEOs who are actively competing to build the most powerful AI in the world both published essays this weekend saying someone should probably stop them. Anthropic's Dario Amodei wrote that AI companies must "slow the pace" of capability improvements because progress is outrunning researchers' ability to understand or control it. Sam Altman endorsed the idea hours later. Fox led with the backlash from executives warning the U.S. can't afford to slow down. NBC led with the consensus. Both are correct — which is exactly the problem nobody has a solution for yet.

Trapped in the same house as a husband she was trying to leave, a Virginia dentist spent nearly two years waiting for the law to catch up to her life. Virginia required couples with children to live apart for a full year before even filing for divorce — meaning the separation had to happen before the paperwork could start. Now states are reopening the question of how hard divorce should be, framing it as a debate about family values. It is also, fairly obviously, a debate about who gets to leave and when.