The Vigilant Outpost Beacon

• World at Large: Venezuela earthquakes live: Death toll jumps to at least 164, nearly 1,000 injured
  UN starts evacuating 11,000 stranded sailors from Strait of Hormuz
  Secretary Rubio: Iran will not be allowed to charge tolls in Strait of Hormuz under any final deal
WORLD — BY COUNTRY
• United States: US Says It Is Mobilizing Assistance for Venezuela After Earthquakes
  Chevron CFO says gas prices will normalize after President Trump presses Big Oil
  Unprecedented water cuts hit Utah and the Colorado River Basin
• China: Anthropic accuses Chinese rival Alibaba of illicitly extracting AI capabilities
  Western Allies in Taipei condemn Chinese drills off eastern Taiwan
  China Now Leads World Submarine Construction - Naval News
• Russia: Medvedev Calls For International Law Mechanism Banning Western Military Bases Abroad
  EU Commissioner Claims That Ukraine Is Gaining The Upper Hand On The Battlefield, In the Air, And At Sea
  Ukraine Reports Mass Drone Assault Hits Orenburg Gas Megaplant 1,500 km From Ukraine
• United Kingdom: London's West End To Be Blanketed With AI Facial Recognition Cameras
  German opposition AfD calls on Merz to follow UK’s Starmer and step down
  
• India: Amazon adds new funding, lifting India AI and cloud investment to $48 billion
  Chinese EV makers are shut out of India - but their tech isn't
  Bank Robbers Escape After Freeing 25 Hostages in Daring Naples, Italy Heist
• France: Macron says France intercepted a Russian shadow fleet oil tanker off coast of Sicily
  France reports first Ebola case after doctor returning from DR Congo tests positive
  France calls for ‘orderly’ US military drawdown
• Germany: Germany is cancelling the F126 frigate project and procuring eight MEKO frigates - Naval News
  Defense stocks plummet on report Germany is scrapping warships; Rheinmetall stock down 13%
  
• Japan: Magnitude 7.2 quake hits northern Japan
  Japanese company workers detained in China, possibly over rare earths
  Cool Japan Fund may be scrapped by industry ministry after posting high losses
• South Korea: North Korea commissions largest-ever warship
  
  
• Australia: Third Australian H5 bird flu case confirmed in SA, another suspected WA case
  Spy chief says Iran agents lived in Australia before directing arson attacks
  
• South and Central America: In pictures: Aftermath of twin earthquakes in Venezuela
  
  
• Saudi Arabia One dead, eight injured in stampede in Jordan as fans watched World Cup match, says Jordan News Agency
  
  
• Israel: Switzerland opens talks to buy Israeli air defense system
  
  
• Continental Africa: Sudanese victims ask ICC to investigate Emiratis over RSF atrocities in el-Fasher
  
  

• White House:
  White House Unveils President Trump’s America First Resilience Strategy
  OMB Advances Revolutionary FAR Overhaul with Formal Publication of Regulatory Changes
  White House drastically shortens deadline for dropping quantum-vulnerable crypto
• State Department:
  Secretary Rubio in Middle East tour says any Iran deal will ensure security of Gulf allies
  US says technical talks with Iran to take place in Switzerland
  
• Dept of War (DoW):
  Gen. Christopher Donahue, CG of U.S. Army Europe and Africa and commander of NATO’s Allied Land Command, stepping down
  Army Armaments Center Develops New Counter-UAS Capability
  White House Seeks $88 Billion In Additional Funding, Mainly For Iran War Costs
• DHS:
  DHS Proposes To Increase Citizenship Application Fees By 80%
  
  
• Treasury:
  US Escalates Crackdown On Overseas Scam Network Targeting Americans
  
  
• Energy:
  Trump Admin Kicks Off American Nuclear Renaissance With $17.5 Billion Loan Program For Reactor Projects
  
  
• Commerce:
  Lutnick Eyes Crackdown On Chinese Humanoid Robots
  
  
• Senate:
  President Trump Refuses to Sign Housing Bill Until Overwhelmingly Popular ‘SAVE’ Voting Act Passes Congress
  Senator Rand Paul Issues First Subpoena Of Long Senate Career — For Tony Fauci
  Fauci Summoned To Testify Before Powerful Senate Committee In July
• Supreme Court:
  Supreme Court says Exxon can sue Cuba over $1B in seized property
  Supreme Court sides with Trump administration in immigration case dealing with green card holders
  

• Oil prices back to pre-war levels on rising Middle East supply
  Micron stock jumps over 16% in premarket trading after blockbuster earnings
  Brent falls below $76, notching its lowest level since day before U.S.-Iran war

• IBM claims world’s first sub-1 nanometer chip technology
  
  
• Another hydrothermal explosion has occurred at Yellowstone National Park
  
  

• Anthropic Accuses Alibaba Of Running Major "Adversarial Distillation" Campaign To Extract Claude Capabilities
  Chinese supercomputer displaces US machines as world's fastest
  

• 8,000 pounds of invasive Burmese python removed from the Florida Everglades
  How minesweeping in the Strait of Hormuz works: A visual guide
  Neanderthals dined on shellfish much earlier than humans

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