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🇵🇰 Pakistan sentences Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi to 17 years. Pakistan’s Accountability Court sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, to 17 years each in a graft case and fined them ₨1M apiece. Prosecutors say the couple illegally acquired land connected to a charitable trust, while his party insists the case is engineered and selective. To Khan’s supporters, this is less a verdict than a warning label slapped on dissent. They blame domestic rivals, including Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s camp, for turning courts into cudgels. Khan has also repeatedly alleged his 2022 ouster was aided by a United States-backed conspiracy, a claim denied by Washington, Pakistan’s military, Khan’s critics, and neighboring India.

🇨🇳 Tibetan refugees in Nepal say a new surveillance net is closing in. Rights advocates say Chinese pressure is pushing Nepali officials to monitor exile communities more aggressively. Investigators found some camera footage routed through Amazon ($AMZN) cloud servers. Some cameras and drones also rely on chips sold by Ambarella ($AMBA), a Silicon Valley supplier. Activists warn that the tech turns everyday policing into cross-border intimidation. China’s embassy rejects the allegations and says Nepal should curb what it calls separatism. Refugees, though, say fear is rising.

⚡ San Francisco blackout leaves 130K customers without power. Pacific Gas and Electric Co. ($PCG), said about 130K homes and businesses went dark Saturday. The utility warned the outage was disrupting public transit across the north side. City officials urged drivers to treat dead signals as four-way stops and avoid nonessential trips. Fire crews reported a blaze inside a PG&E substation at 8th and Mission. PG&E said it stabilized the grid around 4:00 PM as crews isolated damaged equipment. Officials did not offer a firm restoration time by late Saturday evening

🧾 Epstein document page loses 16 files as questions pile up. At least 16 items vanished from a Department of Justice (DOJ) webpage that had hosted documents tied to Jeffrey Epstein. The missing records included files from a 2006 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) probe and multiple 2007 FBI investigations. Six more were tied to a Florida state grand jury, according to a staffer familiar with the list. The DOJ said some items were made private or removed because state laws restrict release of grand jury material. Transparency advocates say the glitches feed distrust in any promised release of remaining files. Officials say the webpage will be updated after legal review.

🗽 Trump backs Nassau executive Bruce Blakeman for New York governor. President Donald Trump endorsed Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman as Republicans scramble for a statewide standard-bearer. The nod came days after Representative Elise Stefanik suspended her run and said she will not seek reelection. Blakeman has been a vocal Trump ally, framing his suburban county as a model for tougher policing and migration policies. Party operatives say the endorsement could freeze out other hopefuls before they build donor networks. Democrats argue Trump is trying to nationalize a state race that usually turns on taxes, transit, and housing costs. Blakeman says he will campaign as law-and-order manager, not culture-war celebrity.

⚓ Pearl Harbor survivor Ira ‘Ike’ Schab dies at 105. Ira ‘Ike’ Schab, a World War II Navy veteran, died at 105 as the cohort of Pearl Harbor survivors dwindles. The Dec. 7, 1941 attack killed about 2.4K people and sank multiple American battleships. Historians say the survivors became living archives, translating textbooks into human memory. The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) estimates at least 19 World War II veterans die each day. Schab’s family said he rarely sought attention. His death leaves one less witness to the moment that forced a nation to reckon with war.

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