US Secret Service under strain

And at least 18 people have been killed in floods in central Europe.

Sign up for Reuters newsletters  Daily Briefing Daily Briefing By Kate Turton The new apparent Trump assassination attempt highlights Secret Service strains, the US is amassing an arsenal of abundant anti-ship weapons, and Poland fortifies towns as deadly floods afflict central Europe. Plus, a study shows how a woman's brain reorganizes during pregnancy. Today's Top News   Routh is a Ukraine supporter, critical of Trump on social media. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich/File Photo US election Two months after Donald Trump narrowly survived an assassination attempt, a gunman hid undetected for nearly 12 hours on the edge of the golf course where he played under the protection of an agency that is being pushed to its limits. The Secret Service said it was aware of a post by Elon Musk on the X social media platform musing about an absence of assassination attempts on President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Black journalists will have their chance to press US Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris on her plans during an interview. She will participate in a Philadelphia forum organized by the National Association of Black Journalists. In other news Volunteers in the Polish town of Nysa fortified floodwalls to stem swollen rivers after heavy rain and flooding round central Europe that has killed at least 18 people. The world's ozone layer is on "the road to long-term recovery" despite a destructive volcanic eruption in the South Pacific, the World Meteorological Organization said, after efforts to phase out ozone-depleting chemicals. European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen named her team, which will lead the EU's most powerful institution for the next five years, tailoring it to focus on challenges posed by climate change, the war in Ukraine and the rise of China. President Vladimir Putin ordered the regular size of the Russian army to be increased by 180,000 troops to 1.5 million active servicemen in a move that would make it the second largest in the world after China's. Music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs was arrested in Manhattan by federal agents based on a sealed indictment, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York said. Business & Markets   The Federal Reserve is set to cut US interest rates for the first time since the pandemic. History shows the state of the economy will play a crucial role in how markets respond. Negotiators at Boeing and its largest union are due to resume talks over a labor contract, as the planemaker seeks to bring a swift end to a strike that is costing the indebted company an estimated $100 million a day. Amazon.com will require employees to return to working at company offices five days per week beginning next year, toughening a prior three-day mandate. Intel's foundry, or contract manufacturing business, has signed up Amazon's cloud services unit as a customer for making custom artificial intelligence chips, the companies said, a deal that gives the chip maker a vote of confidence. Drivers are more likely to engage in non-driving activities, such as checking their phones or eating a sandwich, when using partial automation systems, with some easily skirting rules set to limit distractions, new research showed. Listen to Waylon Cunningham with the scoop on Chipotle's latest automation efforts and how they could be a game changer, on the Reuters World News podcast. The company has moved an automated bowl-and-salad maker plus an avocado-processing robot out of its test kitchen and into a couple of locations in California.  US strategy for anti-ship weapons to counter China: plentiful, mobile, deadly   A budget documents outline US plans for missile purchases. Latonja Martin/US Navy/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo  The United States is amassing an arsenal of abundant and easily made anti-ship weapons as part of American efforts to deter China in the Indo-Pacific region and gear up US forces there. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has pushed US thinking toward a new philosophy - "affordable mass," as one missile industry CEO put it, speaking on condition of anonymity, referring to having plenty of relatively cheap weapons at the ready. Read more And Finally... Brain scans document 4% drop in gray matter volume, while structural integrity of brain white matter increases. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau/File Photo  Pregnancy triggers vast changes in a woman's body - hormonal, cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, urinary and more. And, as a new study reveals, the brain undergoes major changes too, some fleeting and others more enduring. Read more Sponsors are not involved in the creation of newsletters or other Reuters news content. 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