David Silbey is a professor of history at Cornell University, specializing in military history, defense policy and battlefield analysis. If true, he says the news amounts to more of a political statement than a military one.

International

---

Greeshma Gadikota, director of the Sustainable Energy and Resource Recovery Group at Cornell University’s College of Engineering, comments on the discovery of lithium reserves in Arkansas and the role of emergent tech in sustainably extracting the element.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Physical Sciences & Engineering

Engineering

---

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced Egypt has been certified malaria-free – an achievement hailed by the UN public health agency as historic.

Health, Nutrition & Medicine

International

---

Sean Grayson, the former Illinois sheriff’s deputy accused of murdering Sonya Massey in her home, is due in Sangamon County Circuit Court on Monday morning, the bodycam footage illustrating multiple instances in which Grayson made matters worse says attorney, criminal law expert and professor of government at Cornell University Joseph Margulies.

Law and Policy

---

The social media site X is changing how its block feature works – allowing users you’ve blocked to view your public posts. The change is expected to come soon.

Cornell Tech

---

Stephan Schmidt, an associate professor at Cornell University, studies the design and use of urban public space and has previously written about the rise and fall of the American pedestrian mall. He says this plan would benefit pedestrians, but a lack of alleyways could complicate things.

New York City

Architecture & Design

---

Art Wheaton serves as director of labor studies at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations and says Boeing’s recent moves are only compounding its problems.

Economics and Business

Industrial and Labor Relations

---

While former President Trump's supporters insist his 30-minute music and head-popping detour during what was supposed to be a town hall event in Philadelphia Monday night “authenticity” and “spontaneity,” Trump’s abrupt decision to play DJ is actually a sign of accelerating cognitive decline says senior lecturer in the Psychology Department at Cornell University Harry Segal. 

Law and Policy

---

Walgreens is closing approximately 1,200 stores as the pharmacy chain struggles with declining consumer spending. The closures will occur within the next three years.

Health, Nutrition & Medicine

Economics and Business

---

The New York Times sent Perplexity a "cease and desist" notice demanding the company stop using its content for generative AI purposes.

Cornell Tech

Law and Policy

---