Growing Division In Iran's 'Hardline Camp' Emerges Over Halting All Talks With US

Russia-Linked Arms Trafficker, Corrupt African Officials Tried To Supply Mexican Cartel With Surface-To-Air Missiles Submitted by The Bureau's Sam Cooper (emphasis our own),  Federal prosecutors in Virginia have charged four men — a Bulgarian arms trafficker with ties to the notorious Russian weapons dealer Viktor Bout, and several African co-conspirators with connections to the governments of Uganda and Tanzania — with conspiring to supply the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación with a $58 million military arsenal that included rocket launchers, surface-to-air missiles, anti-aircraft drones, and high-powered explosives the brokers boasted could bring...

"Existential Fight For Survival": MSFT May Nuke Green Data Center Climate Pledge One week ago, Microsoft expected roughly $190 billion in AI data center spending for this fiscal year, highlighting the massive scale of the hyperscaler capex cycle as Big Tech races to build out compute infrastructure. Across the tech space, hyperscalers are expected to spend nearly $700 billion in capex this year alone. The incredible amount of capex being deployed this year has forced some tech giants to slash headcount and trim operating costs to free up capital for data...

Supreme Court Directs Lower Courts To Reexamine Decisions In Voting Rights Act Cases Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Supreme Court on May 18 ordered lower courts to reconsider rulings in two redistricting cases that concern whether private individuals may sue to enforce a federal law that bans discriminatory voting practices. The court directed the lower courts to take another look at the cases from Mississippi and North Dakota in light of its recent landmark ruling limiting the use of race in redistricting efforts. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented...