June 22 1600 UTC Brief

In Washington The Senate is set to vote Monday on a bipartisan bill that would limit private equity ownership of single-family homes, a small but notable attempt to make housing a little less of a financial instrument. On the legal front, the Supreme Court is weighing four remaining cases tied to President Trump’s push to expand executive power, including birthright citizenship, the firing of a Federal Reserve governor, independent agencies, and protections for hundreds of thousands of immigrants. Separately, top Democrats are warning about expected cuts at the intelligence office, after reports that the acting director of national intelligence could announce significant firings as soon as Monday. And Trump says Washington’s reflecting pool was vandalized after it turned algae green, which is a bold way to describe pond maintenance. In Europe The UK says it has fast-tracked three British-designed long-range strike systems for Ukraine after flight testing them under Project Brakestop. The systems are meant to reach more than 500 kilometers, and follow-on contracts have been awarded to keep the designs moving toward further trials in the UK and later in Ukraine. Meanwhile, the EU may be preparing to separate Moldova’s accession talks from Ukraine’s, which would end the informal pairing that has shaped both bids so far. In business and tech Google is pushing further into AI-driven database work, telling developers in London that future queries will lean more on natural-language prompts, AI-generated SQL, and context from tools like Knowledge Catalog. Exact SQL is not going away, but the company clearly wants the machines to do more of the typing, and more of the billing. Obituaries Clive Davis, the Grammy-winning music executive who helped steer Columbia, Arista, and J Records and shaped pop music for decades, has died at 94. Reports say he had recently been hospitalized, and he died at his Manhattan home.