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Dispatch Washington · June 4, 2026 President Donald Trump on June 3 named Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte to serve as acting Director of National Intelligence, bypassing the career official who had been designated for the role and placing the nation's top intelligence post in the hands of a loyalist with no publicly…
Dispatch Washington · June 4, 2026 Anthropic has formally invited the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, ENISA, to join Project Glasswing, the company's restricted program governing access to its Claude Mythos AI vulnerability-discovery model, according to multiple reports confirmed by a European Commission spokesperson. European Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier confirmed the development, stating that the…
Dispatch Washington · June 4, 2026 Cheng Li-wun, chairwoman of Taiwan's Kuomintang (KMT), the island's largest opposition party, has held that role since November 2025. She arrived in San Francisco on June 1 as the head of a KMT delegation, beginning a two-week U.S. visit. The central message of the trip is a call for…
Dispatch Washington · June 4, 2026 David J. Rush, a former Senior Executive Service-level CIA employee, was arrested May 19 after FBI agents executing a search warrant at his Ashburn, Virginia, home seized more than 300 one-kilogram gold bars valued at more than $40 million. Agents also recovered approximately $2 million in U.S. currency and…
Dispatch Washington · June 4, 2026 U.S. Central Command intercepted two Iranian ballistic missiles targeting American forces in Kuwait late Sunday, June 1, the latest military exchange to test a ceasefire that has held in nominal form since early April [1][2]. CENTCOM confirmed in a post on X that the missiles were defeated at approximately…
Dispatch Washington · June 4, 2026 China's Ministry of Commerce suspended a broad package of rare earth export controls on Nov. 7, 2025, as part of an agreement reached between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the APEC summit in Busan, South Korea [1][2]. The suspension, formalized through MOFCOM Announcements No. 70…
Dispatch Washington · June 4, 2026 Satellite imagery reviewed by Reuters reveals that China is constructing a network of launch pads, armored bunkers, and communications nodes adjacent to its nuclear missile silo fields in Xinjiang, in what security analysts assess as a systematic effort to protect Beijing's ability to absorb a first strike and retaliate…
Dispatch Washington · June 4, 2026 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed May 29 that Israeli Defense Forces troops had advanced north of the Litani River in southern Lebanon, declaring a new phase in Israel's military campaign against Hezbollah. During a visit to the Israel-Lebanon border, Netanyahu said troops had pushed past the Litani River,…
Dispatch Washington · June 4, 2026 A Russian Geran-2 drone crossed into Romanian airspace during an overnight attack on Ukraine on May 29 and struck a 10-story residential building in the southeastern city of Galați, injuring two people and triggering a fire. Romanian Defense Minister Radu Miruță identified the drone as a Geran-2, the Russian…
Dispatch Washington · June 4, 2026 President Donald Trump published a detailed list of conditions for a ceasefire agreement with Iran on May 29, but left the White House Situation Room that afternoon without announcing a final decision, according to an administration official [1]. The Situation Room meeting had been previewed in Trump's own social…