Polymarket users placed hundreds of bets of at least $1,000 predicting an imminent American strike, raising concerns about insider trading.
Category: United States Politics and Government
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Oil and Natural Gas Prices Extend Rally as Iran Attacks Escalates
Energy prices continued to rise on Tuesday as attacks by the United States and Israel on Iran intensified, along with the country’s response.
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Tariffs Confound Small Businesses Again
Chocolate makers and fig-paste importers are facing a tangle of unknowns, including whether to seek refunds for tariffs invalidated by the Supreme Court.
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Ford and G.M. Face a Dilemma as China Excels in Electric Vehicles
General Motors, Ford and other established automakers risk becoming relics if they don’t catch up to Chinese carmakers and technology companies in electric vehicles and self-driving cars.
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Trump Says He Will End Boycott of White House Correspondents’ Dinner
The mentalist Oz Pearlman is this year’s speaker. “Hopefully, it will be something very Special,” the president wrote on Truth Social.
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Trump Administration Abandons Efforts to Impose Executive Orders on Law Firms
The move amounts to a surrender in a clash that has led many law firms to submit to the president rather than face the threat of his executive orders.
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They’re Hiring at U.S.A.I.D. Just Not Anyone Who Worked There.
The Trump administration said in a memo it wanted to “avoid the risk of impaired objectivity” by hiring former staff members to wind down operations at the U.S. Agency for International Development.
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Airline Stocks Tumble as Iran War Expands Across Middle East
Higher fuel prices and lower demand for international flights are eating into airlines’ profits.
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Abrupt Change for Warner Bros. Prompts Many Grim Faces
Employees at the company had started to warm to the idea of Netflix as its corporate owner. Now they face the prospect of major cuts under Paramount.
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QAnon Faithful See Validation in the Epstein Files
The nearly decade-old conspiracy theory does not align neatly with the facts emerging from the documents. That does not seem to matter.