The Vigilant Outpost Beacon

• World at Large: Iran hits Kuwait airport and a tanker off Qatar while strikes batter Tehran
  FBI declares suspected Chinese hack of US surveillance system a ‘major cyber incident’
  U.S. Drops Bunker Buster Bombs on Iranian Ammunition Depot
WORLD — BY COUNTRY
• United States: President Trump to address nation on Iran war Wednesday after saying US will leave "soon"
  Artemis II: Nasa mission takes off heading on historic trip around Moon
  
• China: China's Sci-Fi Boom Drives Record Revenue Growth
  
  
• Russia: Russian military plane crash kills 29 in occupied Crimea
  Russia Reports: Donbass Dome system now covers DPR areas liberated from Ukrainian forces
  
• United Kingdom: A National Calamity': 1 In 8 UK Children Reported As Disabled By Parents
  
  
• India: India begins world’s largest population census
  Food assistance slashed for hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees
  
• Germany: Germany's Merz Expects 80% Of Syrians To Return Home Within 3 Years
  
  
• Japan: Japan deploys its first long-range missiles
  
  
• Saudi Arabia Zelenskyy visits the UAE and Qatar as Russia launches new attacks on Ukraine
  
  
• Israel: Israel Halts Arms Purchases From France In Rebuke For Iran War Stance
  
  

• White House:
  Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Ensures Citizenship Verification and Voter Eligibility in Federal Elections
  President Trump Ended Democrats’ “Transgender for Everybody” Insanity
  President Trump Acts Where Democrats Refused — Bringing Relief to TSA Workers and Travelers
• State Department:
  Ensuring the Safety of American Citizens Overseas - United States Department of State
  Resumption of Operations at U.S. Embassy Caracas - United States Department of State
  
• Dept of War (DoW):
  Poland Rejects 'Unofficial' US Request To Redeploy Patriot Batteries To Mideast
  Snipers Test Signature Management Tech to Enhance Health, Safety
  Navy Commissions Submarine USS Massachusetts
• Senate:
  US Senators Unveil 'Mined In America Act' To Reshore BTC Mining, Codify Bitcoin Strategic Reserve
  US lawmakers visit Taiwan, voice support for stalled defense budget
  
• House:
  House GOP relents on DHS funding plan
  
  
• Supreme Court:
  Supreme Court sides with therapist in challenge to Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy”
  Supreme Court hears President Trump bid to end birthright citizenship
  Supreme Court refuses to hear case of Louisiana man sentenced to life imprisonment, “Tiger King” appeal

• US Mortgage Rates March Higher to Seven-Month High of 6.57%
  US Firm Takes Control Of One Of The "World's Largest" Cobalt Producers
  SpaceX files for IPO, offering investors stake in Mr. Musk’s moon, Mars ambitions

• Countdown Begins for Artemis II crew going around the Moon
  Astronomers Discover a Rare Primitive Star That Provides a Chemical Snapshot of the Early Universe
  
• Ancient predator species discovered in South Africa challenges what we know about gorgonopsians
  
  

• Another Starlink satellite has inexplicably exploded
  NASA is going back to the moon. What to know about Artemis II
  

• Watch the Artemis II launch on C-SPAN
  
  

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