Microsoft will lay off thousands of employees next week, following its fiscal year-end on June 30. The restructuring affects under 2.5% of its 228,000-person global workforce. Internal sources indicate the cuts will primarily target positions within sales, consulting, and Xbox divisions.

The US House rejected the measure 198-224 on 30 June, with 13 Republicans crossing the aisle and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise switching to 'no' as a procedural move to preserve the option of bringing the vote back. The failure froze the chamber for a second straight week.

An OGE filing confirms Donald Trump made $1.4 billion from crypto in 2025. However, blockchain data shows a stark contrast. Chainalysis reports that roughly 764,000 wallets holding his TRUMP memecoin suffered losses, while only 58 addresses gained over $10 million each.

Ukrainian drones struck the Dubna Space Communications Center in Moscow Oblast for the second time in eight days on Tuesday, June 30, targeting what President Volodymyr Zelensky described as the largest ground-based satellite communications complex in Russia.

The U.S. Navy has confirmed the Boeing-owned MQ-25A Stingray T1 demonstrator is aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) during Fleet Exercise 250 (FLEETEX 250) in the Atlantic Ocean, as part of a display marking the United States’ 250th anniversary.

U.S. Special Operations Command is seeking a long-range, air-launched loitering munition that must interface with SOCOM’s autonomous command-and-control architecture, according to a Request for Information posted to SAM.gov on June 26.

Italian authorities arrested four people Tuesday on charges stemming from an October 2025 bomb attack targeting the home of Sigfrido Ranucci, host of RAI 3 investigative program Report, in Pomezia, roughly 12 miles south of Rome.

A 45-year-old man shot and killed six youth welfare workers in Stade, northern Germany, on June 29, opening fire during a scheduled custody-related appointment for his three-month-old daughter, police said. A local court issued an arrest warrant on murder charges the following day.

Two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) members were shot dead in Paveh, a city in Iran’s Kurdish-majority Kermanshah province roughly 25 miles from the Iraqi Kurdistan border, on the evening of June 29. Two more Guards personnel were wounded in the same attack.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) destroyed a fortified Hezbollah underground drone complex in southern Lebanon’s Majdal Zoun on June 28, in an operation that exposed an assessment failure. Air Force intelligence had previously cleared the site as inactive, while ground forces found it fully armed.

Pakistani forces struck a residential compound in Paktia province’s Chamkani district overnight June 28 to 29, then struck the same location a second time as residents arrived to rescue survivors.

Australia and Vanuatu signed the Nakamal Agreement in Canberra on June 29, barring foreign military bases on the island as Beijing holds a growing presence at a wharf it expanded in Luganville, the site of one of the largest U.S. military bases in the South Pacific during World War II.

The pilot of a JetBlue Airways Airbus A321 reported striking a drone on approach to JFK International Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said, opening an investigation into what may be one of the first known mid-air collisions between a drone and a U.S. commercial passenger aircraft.

Montenegrin police and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested a 39-year-old Iranian national Thursday on charges tied to a hacking campaign that allegedly caused more than $3.4 billion in damage to U.S. infrastructure, Montenegro’s police directorate announced.

Ukraine has developed the DART, a guided missile dropped from stratospheric balloons that cuts its own navigation before terminal descent, denying Russian jammers a signal to target, and delivers a graphite warhead designed to short out electrical grids deep inside Russia.

Romania’s Ministry of National Defense has signed the first contract under a framework agreement with Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems for the acquisition of Spyder short- and very-short-range air defense systems, in a deal the Israeli firm confirmed is the largest in its history.

The US Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear President Donald Trump's appeal of the $5 million civil judgement that found him liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s, leaving a sitting US president with a final court-affirmed finding of sexual misconduct.

President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House on Monday that the largest bipartisan housing bill in over three decades is 'so unimportant' and 'a big yawn', confirming he will not sign until Congress passes a voting reform his own party admits cannot pass.

Marc Andreessen, the billionaire venture capitalist behind Andreessen Horowitz, told the New York Post that 'Doctor ChatGPT' already outperforms 99% of human doctors. The claim was quickly seized on by physicians who say it ignores peer-reviewed evidence that could cause American patients real harm.

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Monday that geofence warrants, which compel tech companies to produce location data for all devices near a crime scene, constitute a "search" under the Fourth Amendment, setting a new constitutional baseline for law enforcement's use of location data.

The United States made modern World Cup history by hosting Iran’s football team while simultaneously bombing Iranian territory. Hours after American warplanes struck Iranian coastal sites, Iran was eliminated from the tournament following a dramatic Austria-Algeria tie.

63 million Americans are now seven years away from an automatic 24% cut to their Social Security checks, and a new map from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget shows retirees in five Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states stand to lose the most when the trust fund is depleted in late 2032.

President Donald Trump's plan to break ground on Washington's East Potomac Golf Links by 1 September has reignited alarm over 35,000 cubic yards of toxic demolition debris dumped at the site, leaving public golfers and DC residents facing fresh uncertainty over course access and possible exposure.

China and Russia conducted their 11th Joint Strategic Air Patrol on June 27, sending at least 15 aircraft through the Sea of Japan, East China Sea, and western Pacific in a six-hour sortie intercepted by U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning IIs and Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) F-15J Eagles.

Elite units of Iraq’s Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) sealed Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone before dawn on June 28, arresting 47 officials, including 13 sitting members of parliament, in an anti-corruption sweep that grew from confessions made by former Deputy Oil Minister Adnan al-Jumaili.

Europe’s record heatwave has killed more than 1,300 people since June 21, with fires ignited by the extreme heat in Germany burning through forests contaminated with unexploded World War II ordnance, forcing firefighters to withdraw as munitions detonated in the blaze.

Global drug use reached a record 331 million people in 2024 as cocaine production hit an all-time high and methamphetamine trafficking pushed into new markets, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) warned in its World Drug Report 2026, released June 26.

An Air Force Accident Investigation Board has determined that pilot error caused the October 2025 crash of an OA-1K Skyraider II near Oklahoma City, the first major mishap for the type and the destruction of one of only 18 aircraft Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) had received.

The U.S. Navy accepted USS Chung-Hoon and USS James E. Williams ahead of schedule, delivering two more Arleigh Burke-class destroyers equipped with the AN/SLQ-32(V)7 Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) Block 3 electronic attack suite under the DDG Modernization 2.0 program.

Ukrainian long-range drones struck two Russian oil refineries overnight, igniting a fire at the Slavyansk ECO refinery in Krasnodar region and hitting a second facility in Yaroslavl region, roughly 435 miles from the Ukrainian border, as President Putin acknowledged Russia is facing a fuel shortage.

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) suspended its Strait of Hormuz evacuation operation Thursday after a cargo vessel transiting the Gulf of Oman was struck by a projectile, but a detail buried in the agency’s own statement signals a broader threat than the evacuation program itself.

French naval forces boarded the crude tanker DELIVER (IMO 9194983) off Sicily on June 23, detaining the vessel as it transited from Russia’s Baltic oil export terminal at Primorsk on suspicion of navigating without valid nationality.

A high-stakes ‘vishing’ attack on June 5, 2026, allowed cybercrime group ShinyHunters to breach Madison Square Garden Entertainment’s network after hackers phoned a low-level employee, impersonated a trusted caller, and hijacked their Microsoft Entra credentials.

LastPass confirmed this week that hackers stole customer contact data and support records from its Salesforce environment, the latest victim in a supply chain attack on market intelligence platform Klue that swept hundreds of enterprise organizations.

The United States transferred four Ocean Aero Triton autonomous underwater and surface vehicles (AUSVs) to the Philippine Navy this week under an asymmetric capabilities program that plans to add lethal attack drones to Manila’s arsenal by 2027.

North Korea commissioned its first ocean-going surface warship, the 5,000-ton destroyer Choe Hyon, at Nampho Shipyard on June 23, with leader Kim Jong Un declaring an end to more than 70 years of naval stagnation.

The US Supreme Court has cleared the way for President Donald Trump to deport more than 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians, a 6-3 ruling that strips Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from people who have legally lived and worked in America for more than a decade.

A captain's apparent midair seizure forced five strangers to pin him down with seatbelts for a grueling 40 minutes, while the first officer flew the De Havilland Q400 to Boston alone. The incident highlights the high-stakes pressure placed on single pilots when a dual-crew system loses its captain.

A new gay dating app called Goose hit the Apple App Store on 25 June with a feature its critics are already calling elitist. Users have to apply for membership before they can wave at anyone, message anyone, or browse the live map of nearby guys.

China’s Fujian aircraft carrier transited the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday, June 23, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense (MND) confirmed, the carrier’s first such passage since December 2025.

Resistance forces in Magway Region destroyed a junta Mi-17, a Russian-made medium transport helicopter, in Myaing Township on June 23 using first-person view (FPV) kamikaze drones, the Magway People’s Defense Force (PDF) confirmed.

Dutch Health Minister Sophie Hermans confirmed on June 23 that a terminally ill child under the age of 12 was euthanized in the Netherlands in late 2025, the first case since the country extended assisted dying to children aged 1 to 12 under a 2024 law change.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) directed two arson attacks against Jewish targets in Australia through agents with direct ties to the country, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) director-general said Wednesday.

The F-15E Strike Eagle pilot rescued from Iran in April told U.S. intelligence officials he observed multiple Iranian drones moving in a coordinated jellyfish-like formation before ejecting from his aircraft, CNN reported June 23, citing four sources familiar with the post-rescue debriefing.

Germany’s Defense Ministry canceled the F126 frigate program on June 24, ending plans to build six anti-submarine warships. In their place, the ministry announced plans to procure eight modular MEKO A-200 DEU frigates from German naval shipbuilder TKMS, pending final parliamentary budget approval.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) conducted a precision airstrike in northwest Syria on June 19 that killed a senior Islamic State (ISIS) leader, the command announced Wednesday. CENTCOM identified the target as Ali Husayn al-‘Ulaywi.

A bipartisan housing bill that would have boosted home supply and lowered rents sat unsigned on President Donald Trump's desk Wednesday, hours before he stormed into a Senate Republican luncheon and called Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy a 'lunatic' over Iran.

A Texas cardiologist allegedly approved 63 cardiac scans of one student athlete in roughly 11 seconds, weeks before that teenager collapsed and died of sudden cardiac arrest during basketball practice.

Barack Obama told the 'All the Smoke' podcast, posted on YouTube, that he has 'a suite' in Donald Trump's head, dropping the line the same afternoon the sitting president cancelled the signing of a bipartisan housing affordability bill that Republicans had pitched as their main midterm trophy.

Footage circulating on social media shows Russian soldiers abandoning a dugout after a Ukrainian thermite drone became lodged at the entrance, releasing incendiary material at reduced output rather than fully deploying inside the position.