U.S.
Top News
Hantavirus Situation Stable, Says WHO Chief
The WHO recently confirmed that the virus on an affected ship was the Andes variant, the only type of hantavirus capable of human-to-human transmission.
271 Immigration Cases Filed as Part of Operation Take Back America
One of the arrested individuals is a truck driver who allegedly tried to smuggle 42 illegal immigrants into the United States.
China Moves to Shut Down Offshore Stock-Trading Channels Used by Mainland Investors
The clampdown hits a route that Chinese investors use to trade U.S. and Hong Kong stocks, raising capital-control and ADR concerns.
Generative AI Hallucination in Court Filing May Jeopardize Case Against BART
More than 1,000 US legal cases in which generic AI produced hallucinated content were detected from Q2 2023 to May 19, one researcher found.
9
Discarded Tech Finds a Purpose
Arizona StRUT gives old computers new life—turning e-waste into tools for education, workforce training, and internet access.
Surgeon General Advisory Warns About Screen Time for Children
‘Harmful screen use among children and adolescents has become a public health concern,’ the advisory states.
LATEST
Trump’s Ambassador Pick for Australia to Focus on Defence, CCP Challenge
‘We think we [the US] have a China problem here, they got a real China problem there,’ said the chair of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
Chinese Foreign Minister to Chair UN Security Council Meeting in US, Visit Canada
The CCP intends to use the UN meeting as a platform to criticize the United States and use the visit to put a wedge in U.S.–Canada relations, analysts say.
Taiwan Says China Deployed 100-Plus Vessels Across First Island Chain After Trump–Xi Summit
Taiwan’s coast guard also reported separate incidents involving a Chinese coast guard ship near Pratas and 41 research vessels near Taiwan.
Rubio Calls India Key US Partner
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called India ‘one of our most important strategic partners in the world’ during his visit to the country.
Shots Fired Outside White House, Suspect Dead: Secret Service
‘An individual ... pulled a weapon from his bag and began firing,’ the Secret Service said.
US Forces Interdict Aircraft With Over 600 Kilograms of Cocaine
The illicit drugs have an estimated street value of roughly $76 million.
Mahmoud Khalil’s Lawyers to Ask Supreme Court to Review His Immigration Case
Khalil’s legal team wants to take his high-profile case to the Supreme Court after a split decision from the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Highlights From the 2nd Batch of Declassified UFO Files Include a UAP Shootdown
The latest release includes video of an Air Force F-16 downing an unidentified object over Lake Huron.
Trump Indicates He’ll Sign Bill Making Daylight Saving Time Permanent
The president said the move could be a ‘very nice’ victory for the GOP.
American Ebola Patient in Germany Not Critically Ill, Hospital Says
Dr. Peter Stafford has said he was worried he would not survive.
Apple Asks Supreme Court to Review Contempt Order in Epic Games Lawsuit
A federal judge previously found the company flouted her injunction against anticompetitive business practices.
Trump Postpones Executive Order on AI
The federal government has recently been grappling with the risk of cutting-edge artificial intelligence models.
Bill Aims to Keep US Investors Away From Blacklisted CCP Officials
‘Communist China is our enemy and we need to wake up and start acting like it,’ Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) says.
US Deploys Aircraft Carrier to Caribbean as Trump Admin Pressures Cuba
The move was confirmed by the U.S. Southern Command on Wednesday, the same day ex-Cuban leader Raúl Castro was indicted in the United States.
