A coach’s 12-year Minecraft city, a German open-weight model billed as sovereign, and a federal ruling against warrantless license-plate searches lead the day; the science desk covers diagnostic confusion, a statistical method turned against itself, and a kidney still working after 48 years.

A German rocket reaches orbit from Western Europe for the first time, a central bank quietly moves gold to keep it tradable in a crisis, and the day’s most resonant threads — from license-plate tracking to forever chemicals — ask who gets to check power when systems get more concentrated.