The Vigilant Outpost Beacon

• World at Large: Elon Musk Offers To Pay TSA Salaries, President Trump Threatens To Deploy ICE As Senate Holds DHS Funding Hostage
  Cuba’s power grid collapses leaving the country without electricity, again
  Qatar LNG Repairs To Take Up To Five Years, Cost $20 Billion In Lost Revenue, Cripple Chinese Supply
WORLD — BY COUNTRY
• United States: Sri Lanka Rejects Pentagon Request To Land Fighter Jets
  Work from home, drive slower and don't use gas cookers: IEA advice on weathering the global energy crisis
  Iran targeted but did not hit Diego Garcia base with missiles, WSJ reports
• Russia: Russia Reports: Ukraine’s military shells Russia’s borderline Kursk Region over 50 times in past day
  
  
• United Kingdom: Foreign secretary denounces 'reckless Iran threats' after missiles fired at Diego Garcia
  UK allows US to use bases to strike Strait of Hormuz targets
  
• France: 'A bit of a mixed verdict': Musk misled Twitter shareholders, jury finds
  
  
• Japan: Iran Ready To Let Japanese Ships Use Hormuz As Chinese, Indian Tankers Already Allowed Passage
  Hiroshima transport company searched after six killed in tunnel accident
  
• Australia: Iran may be using China’s advanced satellite system, ambassador concedes
  
  
• South and Central America: Argentina's Unemployment Rises
  
  
• Turkey Iraq Restarts Oil Exports Via Turkey Amid Strait Of Hormuz Disruptions
  
  
• Israel: Iranian army delivers drone strike on Israel’s Ben Gurion airport
  Iran strikes towns near Israel’s nuclear site, wounds over 100 | US-Israel war on Iran News | Al Jazeera
  IDF Iron Dome Operator Arrested, Charged With Spying For Iran

• White House:
  US Removes Sanctions On Iranian Oil Stranded At Sea To Boost Overall Supply
  Democrats’ DHS Shutdown Enters 35th Day as Airports Plunge into Chaos, Frontline Workers Suffer
  President Trump threatens huge attack if Iran does not reopen strait of Hormuz within 48 hours
• State Department:
  US Expedites Sale of Weapons to U.A.E., Kuwait and Jordan
  
  
• Dept of War (DoW):
  Iran Fires Missiles at Far-Off Diego Garcia Base, but U.S. Remains Out of Range
  Southern Command Releases Unclassified Footage of US Military Blowing Up Narco-Terrorist Vessel in Eastern Pacific
  Pentagon to adopt Palantir Mavin AI as core US military system
• Justice (DOJ):
  Super Micro (SMCI) charged with illegally routing billions of dollars’ worth of Nvidia-powered servers into China
  Robert Mueller, ex-FBI director at center of political tempest, dies at 81
  
• Energy:
  Report: US President Trump’s Nudges Silicon Vally to look at Nuclear Power amid skeptics
  
  
• Senate:
  Senate Works Through Weekend Debating SAVE America Act
  Democrats admit their DHS Shutdown is Hurting American People as Travelers Miss Flights
  
• Supreme Court:
  Unanimous court allows street preacher’s free speech case to move forward
  
  

• Qatar Dethroned As 'LNG King' As U.S. Seizes Throne, Reshaping Future Of Gas
  EV Demand Surges Across Asia After Energy Shock Sends Consumers Into Panic Mode
  USA Rare Earth (USAR) Loses 8.82% as Lawmaker Questions Lutnick Conflict of Interest

• We keep finding the raw material of DNA in asteroids—what's it telling us?
  NASA’s X-59 Experimental Supersonic Aircraft Makes Second Flight
  Archaeologists Unearth Traces of a Mysterious Medieval City That Was Abandoned Under Puzzling Circumstances Hundreds of Years Ago

• OpenAI cofounder says he hasn't written a line of code in months and is in a 'state of psychosis'
  How BYD Got EV Chargers to Work Almost as Fast as Gas Pumps
  First-Ever Look At America's Classified RQ-180 Stealth Drone

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