The Vigilant Outpost Beacon

• World at Large: US Strikes, Seizes Iranian Cargo Ship Trying To Break Blockade
  Major 7.5-magnitude quake hits off Japan, triggers tsunami warnings
  Mass Shooting in Kyiv Kills Six as Ukraine Faces Dual Pressures on Battlefield and Home Front
WORLD — BY COUNTRY
• United States: Louisiana dad kills 8 kids in deadliest US mass shooting since 2024
  US Navy destroyer fires on cargo vessel attempting to sail to Iranian port
  US Supreme Court unanimously sides with oil and gas companies in suit over damage to Louisiana coast
• China: China Completes 11 Km Underwater Yangtze Bullet Train Tunnel, Pushes Limits With 450 Kmph CR450 Train
  China turns Taiwan’s own voices against it in information war
  
• Russia: Bulgaria's Former Pro-Russian President Set For Landsllde Election Win
  Ukraine’s Lima EW SatNav Jammer System Diverts 26 Kinzhal Missiles in 2026, 58 in Total
  Russian air defense forces shoot down 274 Ukrainian UAVs over past day
• United Kingdom: British universities paid security firm to ‘spy’ on pro-Palestine students
  US releases video of forces seizing Iranian ship
  
• France: Elon Musk does not appear at hearing in French prosecutors’ X probe
  France nears rocket artillery decision, plans ballistic missile by 2035
  
• Germany: Rat poison found in HiPP baby food jar in Austria, police say
  
  
• South Korea: Eight runners hospitalised after collapsing during South Korea marathon
  North Korea Fires Ballistic Missiles Toward Sea in Latest Weapons Tes
  
• Canada: Carney urges changes to Canada's economic ties with US
  
  
• Saudi Arabia Israeli army announces death of another soldier in Lebanon, nine wounded
  
  
• Israel: Netanyahu Left 'Personally Stunned' By Trump Rhetoric Prohibiting Lebanon Strikes
  
  
• Continental Africa: Pope urges Angola to overcome divisions at Mass attended by 100,000 people
  
  

• White House:
  Appeals Court Allows Construction Of White House Ballroom To Continue
  President Donald J. Trump is Accelerating Medical Treatments for Those Suffering Serious Mental Illness
  Congressional Bill H.R.8322 Signed into Law to extend Title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) until April 30, 2026
• State Department:
  Finland Joins Pax Silica Initiative - United States Department of State
  Designation of Nicaraguan Vice Minister of the Interior for Involvement in Gross Violations of Human Rights - United States Department of State
  
• Dept of War (DoW):
  US Marine Corps releases video showcasing new Medium Landing Ship design
  Air Force unit executes test of Anduril’s semiautonomous combat drone
  Guard Unit 'Turns Blue,' Symbolizing Mobile Infantry Transition
• Treasury:
  U.A.E. Asks U.S. About a Wartime Financial Lifeline
  US Treasury Extends Russian Crude Waiver Amid Supply Disruptions
  
• Senate:
  US Senate hearing today on the Department of Energy’s atomic energy defense activities and the Department of Defense’s nuclear weapons program
  Senate Proposal to expand DOE’s to license and regulate commercial reactors and fuel-cycle facilities on federal lands
  
• House:
  Budget hearing on the Department of the Interior (2008 Rayburn House Office Building) DOI programs including water resources, reclamation projects, and drought-related infrastructure in the West
  
  
• Supreme Court:
  Oral Argument No. 25-197, T.M. v. University of Maryland Medical System Corp. — Consider whether Rooker-Feldman doctrine and if it applies to a state-court decision that remains subject to further state review; also touches on federalism and separation of powers
  
  

• Oil surges at re-open and European bourses primed for lower open as Iran says Hormuz returning to “strict control”
  American Airlines Rejects United CEO’s Merger Proposal
  U.S. Air Force Faces an 1,800-Pilot Deficit as Commercial Airlines Offer $550,000 Salaries. The Pentagon Is Losing Its Most Expensive Strategic Investment

• Scientists Still Don't Know How or When the Grand Canyon Formed. New Research May Hint at Its Ancient Origins
  
  

• China Claims New Jet Engine Can Hit Mach 6 Without Changing Modes
  Tesla brings its robotaxi service to Dallas and Houston
  

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