The Vigilant Outpost Beacon

• World at Large: With threat of US action on Cuba looming, US and Cuban officials met recently in Havana amid new diplomatic push
  As oil prices plunge below $91 after weeks, a new Hormuz crisis emerges
  Spain Hosts Left Leaning Liberal Government rally with EU leader (Sánchez) and Others in the face of current geopolitical shifts
WORLD — BY COUNTRY
• United States: White House and Anthropic Hold ‘Productive’ Meeting, Aiming for a Compromise - The New York Times
  House Votes to Extend Expiring Section 702 FISA Warrantless Surveillance Law for 10 Days
  Meta To Unleash First Wave Of Mass Layoffs May 20 As It Eliminates 10% Of Its Workers
• China: Beijing Boosts BeiDou Satellite System To Try And Compete With GPS
  China lifts green push with plan to double clean energy by 2035
  China Says Japan Stirs ‘Trouble’ with Vessel in Taiwan Strait
• Russia: Ukraine strikes two Russian refineries, Baltic Sea port
  Drone Attack On Russia's Tuapse Oil Refinery Unleashes Fire So Large It Can Be Seen From Space
  UAC delivers batch of Su-35S fighter jets to Russian Aerospace Forces
• United Kingdom: Starmer Fires Senior U.K. Civil Servant Over Mandelson Revelations
  Starmer rejects calls to quit as pressure mounts over Mandelson vetting
  UK Threatens Strongarm to Contain: Epsom protest ERUPTS as Police HIDE identities of suspected gang rape attackers of young woman
• India: India Parliament 'Bill has nothing to do with women empowerment; attempt to bypass caste census,' Rahul Gandhi says
  India's Central Bank Tells Oil Refiners To Stop Buying Dollars On Spot Market
  
• Germany: Germany's Anti-Immigration AfD Alternative for Germany (AfD0 party jumped to 2%, now four points ahead of the rival Christian Democrats (CDU)
  
  
• Spain: Spain Erupts: Patriots Attacked By Socialist Mob Over Mass Illegal Migrant Amnesty
  
  
• Australia: Refinery Fire Pandemic Spreads to Australia as One of Two Burns
  
  
• Saudi Arabia Iran-Linked Ships Take New Route To Enter The Persian Gulf
  
  
• Israel: Ukraine Urges Israel To Act Against Russian Ship Carrying 'Stolen' Grain To Haifa Port
  
  

• White House:
  In Nevada, President Trump Celebrates No Tax on Tips — Delivering Real Money to Working Americans – The White House
  White House reviewing cases of missing, dead scientists for possible links as 11th person identified
  
• State Department:
  Ten Day Cessation of Hostilities to Enable Peace Negotiations Between Israel and Lebanon - United States Department of State
  
  
• Dept of War (DoW):
  Starlink outage hit drone tests, exposing Pentagon’s growing reliance on SpaceX
  Wolf Pack Modular Mini Cruise Missiles Pitched For Apache, Black Hawk
  Production Of AH-64 Apache’s New Counter-Drone Cannon Shell Ammunition Ramping-Up
• Justice (DOJ):
  Prosecutor in John Brennan investigation removed from case
  FBI ramps up probe of ex-CIA chief Brennan over Russia report
  
• DHS:
  Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons Resigns
  
  
• Treasury:
  Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson warns U.S. needs an emergency ‘break-the-glass’ plan if Treasury demand collapses
  
  
• House:
  House Votes to Extend Expiring FISA Surveillance Law for 10 Days
  House Votes 224-204 to Extend 'Temporary Protected Status' to 350,000 Haitians for THREE YEARS - These TEN Republicans Voted with Dems
  
• Supreme Court:
  Court unanimously sides with oil and gas companies in suit over damage to Louisiana coast
  Justices to consider when federal courts may review state-court decisions
  

• Google's Stake In SpaceX Could Be Worth $122 Billion At IPO
  Norway's Oil Export Earnings Surge 68% Amid Iran War
  Netflix Plunges After US Revenues Miss, Dismal Q2 Guidance, Hastings Stepping Down As Chairman

• Massive Cosmic Test Shows Newton And Einstein Still Explain Gravity Accurately
  
  

• The Iranian Drone Problem Forced a Radical Fix — The Marines Just Got a Rifle Scope that Tracks, Thinks, and Only Fires When It Knows You’ll Hit
  
  

• 1 million bees swarm Knoxville, Tennessee highway after crash shuts down interstate ramp for hours
  More than a quarter of private colleges are at risk of closing, a new projection shows
  

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