June 13, 2026 - Gov Brief Today

What Happened Today – June 12, 2026

June 13, 2026 by George Bounacos

National Park Service "Fighting for Freedom" panel on slavery and abolition at Philadelphia's Independence National Historical Park

This Philadelphia slavery display was among hundreds a Trump order stripped from national parks, all now ordered restored before July 4 by a judge who called the purge unlawful censorship. (National Park Service)

Friday night, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei switched off Fable 5, the most powerful AI his company had ever released. Its performance had crushed every rival when it launched days earlier. He pulled it because the Commerce Department invoked national security and barred every non-American from it, down to the noncitizens inside Anthropic who built it. … Read more