Overnight attention still lingered on Trump's voluntary AI accord and Jack Smith's Senate testimony defending the Trump prosecutions.
By morning it was displaced by a Dubai-to-Tel Aviv FlyDubai flight diverted to Saudi Arabia after a cockpit fight. Initial accounts of a plunge and scrambled jets hardened into Netanyahu's claim the co-pilot stabbed the captain and tried to crash the plane, with Israeli officials calling it a thwarted jihadist attack. Coverage then turned to reconstructions of passengers and off-duty pilots subduing the attacker and the survivors' arrival in Israel, where four Americans were confirmed aboard.
Apart from the flight, outlets noted the formal U.S. withdrawal from Iraq ending the anti-ISIS mission and Hegseth's address outlining a 20% cut to generals, a drone command and a new mega-base competition.