🔰 Tesla Virtual Power Plant is now available in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇷🇺 US Allows Russia Oil Sales Waiver to Expire Despite Tight Market

The Trump administration allowed a waiver that encouraged more Russian crude sales to lapse. The expiration effectively ends for now a brief period where the administration eased sanctions on some Russian oil, enabling purchases that would otherwise be barred.

The Trump administration issued an initial waiver in March and a second after the first expired in April — both applying only to a subset of Russian oil that had already been loaded onto tankers.

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🤑 Europe’s Largest Asset Manager With €2.4T AUM Launches Its Tokenized Fund on Solana

Amundi, Europe’s largest asset manager with €2.4 trillion in assets under management, and tokenization platform Spiko have announced plans to bring the Spiko Amundi Overnight Swap Fund, known as SAFO, to Solana.

Chainlink provides the infrastructure for publishing the fund’s net asset value onchain. The shareholder register initially launched on Ethereum and Stellar, but the companies confirmed they planned to expand to additional blockchains based on investor demand. Solana now becomes part of that expansion strategy.

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🇧🇾🇺🇸 Lukashenko praises US as Belarus receives two-thirds of humanitarian aid from Washington

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has praised the United States as a leading source of humanitarian assistance for his country despite the sanctions regime. Speaking at a meeting with Franklin Graham, president and chief executive of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Lukashenko said the US had supplied two-thirds of the humanitarian aid received by Belarus in the past year.

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🤑 Sending cross-border payments on the Stellar network is faster, cheaper, and easier.

It takes a lot to send a dollar, but it doesn't have to. That's why global institutions, from banks to organizations to actual governments, choose Stellar.

#Stellar

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🇺🇸🇹🇼 Trump on making chips:

"I’d like to see everybody making chips in Taiwan come over to us in America. Taiwan was developed because we had presidents that didn’t know what the hell they were doing. They stole our chip industry," — Trump said.

This aligns with Trump's long-standing push for reshoring semiconductor manufacturing to the U.S. for economic and national security reasons. Taiwan (primarily via TSMC) produces about 90% of the world's most advanced chips, a vulnerability he's highlighted for years.

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🛢🇨🇦 Enbridge Warms Up to New Canada Oil Pipeline After Carbon Compromise

Enbridge Inc. “definitely would consider” backing a new oil pipeline to Canada’s west coast, its chief executive officer said, giving an early vote of confidence hours after Prime Minister Mark Carney signed an energy deal with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.

The Canada-Alberta pact opens the way to start construction on a new pipeline capable of carrying 1 million barrels a day of Canadian oil to the coast of British Columbia, from which it can be shipped to Asian countries that need the crude.

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🇺🇸 Feds request ‘summer surge’ of National Guard troops in DC

Federal authorities requested an additional 1,500 National Guard troops to be deployed to Washington, D.C., as part of a “summer surge” of law enforcement ahead of the country’s 250th anniversary celebrations.

The escalation, if fulfilled, will bring the total of National Guard troops in the capital to 5,000. Authorities said the coordinated effort will attempt to crack down on criminal activity, including violence, drug and illegal firearm trafficking, and large, disorderly gatherings of teenagers.

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🤝 Snap, YouTube, TikTok Settle School Suit Targeting Social Media

Snap Inc., Google’s YouTube and ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok reached agreements to settle the first lawsuit headed to trial over claims that addiction to top social media platforms has disrupted learning and pushed public schools to spend massive sums fighting a mental health crisis, according to court filings.

The trio of settlements announced leaves only Meta Platforms Inc. to face off with a rural Kentucky school district in a trial set to begin June 12 in federal court in Oakland, California. The terms of the settlements weren’t disclosed in Friday’s filings.

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🇺🇸 House talks look at blocking some state AI laws, including in California and New York

Bipartisan House talks on expected AI legislation are coalescing around a plan to preempt a specific set of state laws that rein in cutting-edge AI developers, according to two tech lobbyists and three AI policy advocates familiar with the discussions.

The bill would specifically preempt AI safety laws like those recently passed by California and New York, which require top AI developers to disclose information about new models in order to identify critical safety or security risks. State AI laws that do not regulate model developers are not expected to be preempted.

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⚡️ WHO declares global health emergency over Ebola outbreak

The World Health Organization has declared a global health emergency over the Ebola outbreak that has killed a suspected 80 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

"Neighboring countries sharing land borders with the DRC are at high risk for further spread," — the WHO warned.

The outbreak involves the Bundibugyo virus, which is harder to treat and for which there is no vaccine. There were 246 suspected cases in the DRC as of May 16, the WHO said. Uganda has reported two lab-confirmed cases, including one death, in individuals who had traveled from the DRC.

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⚡️ Pope Leo XIV is creating a commission on AI, a new Vatican body aimed at coordinating the Catholic Church’s response to AI

The Vatican announced on Saturday that the pontiff had decided to launch the commission because of the increase in usage of AI, “its potential effects on human beings and on humanity as a whole [and] the church’s concern for the dignity of every human being.”

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⚡️🇹🇼 Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te said the self-ruled democracy cannot be traded away

“Taiwan will never be sacrificed or traded,” — Lai said in a Facebook post on Sunday evening, adding that the island’s central role in Indo-Pacific security and global supply chains, particularly for AI and semiconductors, makes stability a shared interest among democratic nations.

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🇺🇸 Trump posted on Truth Social.

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🧑‍⚖️🇻🇪 Venezuela Circulates Draft of Oil Law Regulations for Companies

The Venezuelan government is circulating a draft of regulations as part of its newly enacted oil law, highly anticipated by companies planning to invest in the country’s increased oil production.

A 63-page draft sets details on technical, operational, fiscal and control provisions for companies that work in the country’s oil and gas fields. It specifies standards for private companies’ activities in areas previously monopolized by Petróleos de Venezuela SA, such as oil refining, upgrading and trading. It also abrogates the country’s 1943 oil law and 1969 regulations.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇨🇳 US Says China to Buy $17 Billion of Agricultural Goods Annually

China has agreed to purchase at least $17 billion of agriculture products from the US annually through 2028, the White House said in a fact sheet detailing President Donald Trump’s two-day summit in China.

#BRICS

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🧑‍⚖️🇺🇸 Trump pushes to attach his SAVE act to must-pass bipartisan bills

President Donald Trump is taking up another strategy to pass his signature SAVE America Act: attaching it to other must-pass bipartisan legislation on housing and government surveillance powers.

“We cannot, as a Country, put up with this any longer!!!” — he wrote on Truth Social. “Voter I.D., and Proof of Citizenship, must be approved, NOW. Crooked Mail-In Voting must be stopped!!! PUT IT ALL IN THE HOUSING AND FISA BILLS.”

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🇲🇾 Malaysia Unveils Measures to Help Airlines Hit by Iran War

Malaysia introduced measures to ensure the operational stability of its aviation industry and ease the financial strain on airlines as they struggle with the impact of war in the Middle East.

Authorities have offered an extension of up to 60 days for the payment of navigation fees and charges, exemptions on aircraft parking fees, and a two-month deferment of passenger boarding bridge and check-in counter costs, the Ministry of Transport said on its Facebook page.

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