Category: United States Politics and Government

A Growing Data Center Pollution Threat, and the Last of the Jan. 6 Cases

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Plus, why veterinarians are learning to handle honeybees.
Trump’s Push for More A.I. Data Centers Will Mean Major Air Pollution

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Inside the Oval Office Showdown Between Trump and Jeanine Pirro

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Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, told President Trump that his interior secretary, Doug Burgum, had misled him with a self-serving cover story for his own mistakes.
Arizona’s Democratic Governor Set to Pick a Republican Running Mate

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Gov. Katie Hobbs, locked in a competitive re-election battle, plans to tap a moderate former mayor of Mesa, Ariz., John Giles, to serve as her lieutenant governor if she wins in November.
Pirro Meets With Trump at the White House After He Said She ‘Choked’ in Reflecting Pool Case

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President Trump said Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., “folded like an umbrella.” For now, her job appeared to be safe, according to two people familiar with the meeting.
U.S. Trade Deficit Dips in June as Imports Fall Back

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Imports and exports both declined, retreating from a busy month in May, data from the Commerce Department showed.
White House Whipsaws Silicon Valley (and Itself) Over A.I. Rules

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The Trump administration has struggled over how to approach “open source” models, which are freely available to download and favored by Chinese companies.
The New Deal That Could Lock in Iran’s Control of the Strait, and the $7 Billion Trump’s Not Spending

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Plus, where are you supposed to practice the bagpipes?
How the War in Iran Is Complicating Trump’s Agenda at Home

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As President Trump heads to the West Coast to talk to Americans about the economy, the war in Iran is driving up costs and polls show the already unpopular conflict is losing support.
A Currency Trader at Heart, Bessent Bets on Japan’s Yen

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Coordinated intervention allowed Japan to support its currency without selling off its U.S. debt holdings.
An Emerging Deal Between Iran and Oman to Reopen Hormuz Would Come at a Cost for Trump

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The deal would address President Trump’s most urgent political problem by allowing ships to move again. But it would give Iran strategic leverage it did not have before the war.
Republicans Let Trump Keep Unparalleled Benefit: I.R.S. Immunity

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The rebellion against Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general, now seemingly contained, at no point fundamentally questioned President Trump’s new protections from the I.R.S.