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MAGA Senator Threatens Walmart for Responding to Trump’s Tariffs
Walmart may be wading through dangerous waters with Donald Trump’s administration after announcing that the president’s tariffs would…
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Trump’s China Tariff Deal Is About to Come Back to Bite Him
The president’s tariffs on China appear to have backfired. Last week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that U.S. tariffs on…
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UN court backs E Guinea in Gabon dispute over islands in oil-rich waters
The United Nation's top court has sided with Equatorial Guinea in a row with Gabon over three islands in potentially oil-rich waters. The…
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Who Is the President Here?
On Russia and beyond, the VP seems to be signaling policy preferences that do not comport with those of the administration he serves.…
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Supreme Court asked to allow Trump administration to restart mass firings of federal workers
The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to break a lower court's hold on President Trump's mass firing of federal workers…
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Billionaire Richard Li's FWD Group again files for Hong Kong listing
Its previous attempts to go public were scuttled by regulatory delays and market volatility Group, a Hong Kong-based insurer backed by…
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Video: Inside a Plan to Shut Down Pro-Palestinian Activism
What is Project Esther? Katie J.M. Baker, a national investigative correspondent for The New York Times, explores the Heritage…
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Apple partner Foxconn injects US$1.5 billion into India unit
Taiwan’s Foxconn, the main manufacturer of Apple’s iPhones, will inject US$1.5 billion into its India unit as production shifts away from…
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JPMorgan says interest income could rise this year even as uncertainty persists
JPMorgan Chase could earn more from interest payments this year as consumers and businesses remain resilient despite economic uncertainty,…
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The World Health Organization Is Excluding Taiwan — at China’s Behest
It is time for the WHO to take a more pragmatic and inclusive approach — one that puts public health above politics. Source link
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US: Wall St opens lower after Moody's rating cut; yields rise
Wall Street’s main indexes opened lower on Monday (May 19) as Treasury yields rose after Moody’s downgraded the US sovereign rating,…
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23andMe sells gene-testing business to DNA drug maker Regeneron
Bankrupt genetic-testing firm 23andMe agreed to sell its data bank, which once contained DNA samples from about 15 million people, to the…
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Mixing the Political and the Personal: Trump’s Swap Scheme and Crypto Reserve
The conflicts of interest can’t be ignored. Source link
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Trump’s Tariffs Are About Rent Extraction, Not Rent-Seeking
If Trump did not impose these tariffs to support rent-seeking firms, then why did he do it? Source link
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Pavement Inspires a Strange, Loving Bio-Pic
I once assumed that Pavement would be forgotten by later generations, just as the knowing, sarcastic wit of the nineteen-nineties came to…
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R.F.K., Jr., Anthony Fauci, and the Revolt Against Expertise
Even the establishment distrusted the establishment. Shortly after the assassination, Robert F. Kennedy—the Attorney General and the…
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How Barry Diller Stayed on Top
Throughout, Diller occasionally muses on the excellence of a script—“Raiders of the Lost Ark” was, he says, “perfect from the first…
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Colum McCann’s Limp Novel of Digital Life
Have novels left anything unsaid about the internet of the past fifteen years? It feels as though they’ve exhausted the terrain, but…
Culture
The Dissonant Howl of “Salome”
The Biblical figure of Salome, Princess of Judea, who dances before Herod Antipas and demands the head of John the Baptist as a reward,…
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Contributor: The U.S. failed refugees during the Holocaust. Trump's Libya plan would too
In May 1939, a ship called the St. Louis departed from Hamburg, Germany, with 937 passengers, most of them Jews fleeing the Holocaust.…
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Biden is diagnosed with 'aggressive' form of prostate cancer
WASHINGTON — Former President Biden has been diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer, his office said Sunday, a devastating…
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Kenny Smith Isn’t Going Fishing Yet
Last July, the National Basketball Association announced a new eleven-year media-rights agreement with Amazon, NBC, and ESPN, set to take…
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Trump's Middle East trip produced little for Palestinians
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — President Trump’s four-day visit to the Middle East was marked by a flurry of activity: Billion-dollar trade deals,…