The Vigilant Outpost Beacon

• World at Large: Microsoft reveals new quantum chip made with AI
  Iranian drones target Kuwait civilian airport terminal, causing injuries
  President Trump Aims to Ease Lebanon Tensions to Extend Iran Talks
WORLD — BY COUNTRY
• United States: Musk’s soon-to-be-trillionaire status brings political attacks
  US plans tariffs of up to 12.5% over forced labor concerns
  Whistleblower Leaks Stanford's Private Foreign-Funding Records, Exposing CCP-Linked Donors
• China: New Mystery Submarine Signals China’s Rapid Undersea Expansion
  How China Is Remaking Its Vast Western Frontier
  
• Russia: Ukraine strikes St Petersburg, overshadowing Putin forum
  Ukraine strikes oil terminal in St Petersburg as Putin's economic summit gets under way
  Ukrainian cities targeted by hundreds of drones as Moscow intensifies attacks
• United Kingdom: UK government condemns violence at protest over fumbled handling of teen's stabbing death
  Welsh Police Officers Ordered To Log Anti-Islam Comments In Chilling Free Speech Crackdown
  London Tube workers go on two-day strike
• India: Delhi hotel fire LIVE: At least 21 people killed, several foreigners among those dead
  Exclusive: India set for $2-billion drone order in biggest buy, industry body says
  India, Russia boost academic partnership with education summit
• France: Japanese tech giant pledges massive investment for French data centres
  
  
• Germany: Swiss voters look set to reject plan to limit population at 10 million, poll shows
  Brussels hosts European civil protection exercise for the first time
  
• Japan: Pakistan Inaugurates Mosque In Japan. Tokyo Says It's 'Illegal'
  Taiwan considers armed robot dogs to guard against China
  A bear injures 4 people in a residential area of Japan as the annual number of attacks rises
• South Korea: South Korea Overtakes India as World's Sixth-Largest Stock Market
  
  
• Canada: Former prime minister Harper to make the case for a united Canada ahead of Alberta secession referendum
  Canada formally requests renewal of USMCA North American free trade pact
  
• South and Central America: Venezuela Oil Exports Hit 7-Year High
  
  
• Continental Africa: Rooftop Solar helps South Africa pass one year without loadshedding
  Protests over US Ebola site in Kenya kill two, court keeps block
  

• White House:
  President Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking Oversight of A.I. Models
  President Trump Names Bill Pulte as Acting Director of National Intelligence
  President Donald J. Trump Updates Tariffs on Steel, Aluminum, and Copper Imports
• State Department:
  Deputy Secretary Landau's Meeting with Foreign Minister Todd of Guyana
  Opposite Of Drawdown: US Mulls Expanding Nuclear Weapons Deployments In Europe
  United States Sanctions Armed Group Leaders in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Dept of War (DoW):
  Transfer of Authority: 101st Airborne Division transferred authority of the Joint Task Force Southern Border mission to the 1st Armored Division
  Philippine, U.S. Forces Conduct Maritime Cooperative Activity
  
• DHS:
  DHS Highlights Worst Criminal Illegal Aliens Arrested in Sanctuary New Jersey in the Last Week Amid Leftist Smears Against ICE
  Feds Seize Over A Ton Of Cocaine At Massive US-Mexico Drug-Smuggling Tunnel
  Airline chaos looms as HS Secretary Mullin threatens CBP pullout
• Treasury:
  Economic Fury Targets Iran's Largest Digital Asset Exchange for Terror Finance and Sanctions Evasion
  
  
• HHS:
  HHS Unveils Sweeping Plan to Combat Lyme Disease and Advance Treatment
  Flesh-eating screwworm detected 25 miles from U.S. border, USDA says
  
• DOT:
  US emergency oil reserve approaching all-time low
  
  
• Senate:
  GOP senators see path for reconciliation package after anti-weaponization fund U-turn
  
  
• House:
  Secretary of State Marco Rubio Before the House Appropriations Subcommittee
  
  
• Supreme Court:
  Transgender troops can remain in US military, but enlistment can be blocked, court rules
  “Peter’s Pence on Trial”: U.S. Supreme Court Allows Lawsuit Against Catholic Bishops to Move Forward
  

• U.S. job openings climbed to astounding 7.6 million in April despite economic fallout from Iran war
  Warren Buffett's Successor, Greg Abel, Has More Than 28% of Berkshire Hathaway's $330 Billion Portfolio Invested in 2 AI Titans
  Bitcoin’s Crash Below $70K Wipes Out $800M, While ETF Outflows Hit 11-Day Record

• Pacific Fusion’s latest prototype packs 440 gigawatts into an 80-nanosecond burst
  Microsoft's Project Solara is an Android OS designed for agents instead of apps
  Moderna gets $50 million to develop mRNA Ebola vaccine against Bundibugyo
• Permadrought: 75% Of Global Population Lives In A Country Affected By 'The Great Drying'
  
  

• Florida Becomes First State To Sue "Unsafe" OpenAI And Sam Altman Over AI Harms
  Anthropic AI Chatbot Claude Faces Major Global Outage Affecting Thousands Of Users
  AI has a water problem. Google thinks it has a fix

• Lost WWII submarine discovered off the coast of Japan
  The retirement age changed this year: Here’s what to know
  

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