Politics and accountability are colliding on both sides of the Atlantic today. In Wales, Rhun ap Iorwerth has been sworn in as the country’s first Plaid Cymru First Minister, a landmark break with Labour’s long dominance. In London, Green Party leader Zack Polanski has apologised and moved to repay any council tax he may owe after questions over his east London houseboat and whether it counted as his main residence. In the United States, federal prosecutors have escalated the legal aftermath of last year’s Baltimore bridge disaster, filing 18 charges against ship operators and a manager over the Dali collision that killed six workers. Elsewhere, Arcadia, California, mayor Eileen Wang has resigned after agreeing to plead guilty to acting as an illegal agent of China. And in New York, a striking pop-up “reading room” is turning the vast, newly released Epstein files into a public spectacle—and a demand for transparency.