News for May 18, 2025

Palmer Luckey is trying to remake the U.S. military by building Anduril into a defense products company focused on autonomous, AI-powered weapons.

Palmer Luckey and his company Anduril are building AI-powered autonomous weapons for the U.S. military, arguing they can make warfare safer for American forces and more effective as a deterrent.

China’s spying campaign against the U.S. is growing, with Xi Jinping’s government using both cyber tools and human agents to watch and pressure dissidents abroad.

The article says China, under President Xi Jinping, has built a wide spy network in the U.S. to gather intelligence, pressure dissidents, and influence events, and it shows what can happen when those efforts are exposed.

China’s Ministry of State Security is using spying, pressure, and online monitoring to recruit people in the U.S. and control Chinese nationals abroad.

The FBI says a 25-year-old suspect died in a car blast outside a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, in what it called a targeted attack.

On “Face the Nation,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended the Trump administration’s positions on Russia-Ukraine talks, Venezuela, Gaza, South Africa, and Iran as President Donald Trump faces growing pressure at home and abroad.

The FBI says a deadly bombing outside a California fertility clinic was an act of terrorism tied to Guy Edward Bartkus’s anti-natalist beliefs.

Mike Pence criticized Donald Trump’s tariffs and some foreign policy moves in a broad interview, while also praising parts of the administration.