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Treasury Secretary Bessent says a stock market decline won’t deter the U.S. from taking strong action against China
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent insisted Wednesday that the U.S. won’t change its trade negotiating stance on China due to stock market volatility. “We won’t negotiate because the stock market is going down” or shy away from taking strong measures against Beijing for that reason, Bessent said in an exclusive interview at CNBC’s Invest in America […]
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Iraq pledges to end $4 billion gas imports from Iran by 2028 as it races to diversify beyond oil
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani said he hopes to end the country’s $4 billion reliance on Iranian gas by 2028, in an effort to diversify the major oil-producer’s economy. Decades of mismanagement, underinvestment and corruption have strained the power grid of Iraq, which is OPEC’s second-largest oil producer after Saudi Arabia. Gas […]
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Trump threatens China with cooking oil embargo over soybean snub
Travis Hutchison, a soybean farmer, unloads his cargo from his family’s truck at a local grain dealer in Queen Anne, Maryland, on Oct. 10, 2025. Roberto Schmidt | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Tuesday said his administration is considering “terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil” in retaliation for […]
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Meta removes Facebook page allegedly used to target ICE agents after pressure from DOJ
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during a roundtable on “Antifa,” an anti-fascist movement he designated a domestic “terrorist organization” via executive order on September 22, at the White House in Washington, D.C., Oct. 8, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters Meta removed a Facebook group page on Tuesday that was allegedly used to “dox and […]
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Airports refuse to show DHS Sec. Kristi Noem video blaming Democrats for government shutdown
Multiple major U.S. airports are refusing to air a video showing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem blaming Democrats in Congress for the ongoing federal government shutdown. The Transportation Security Administration sent requests to airports to air the video on screens near security lines. Noem in the video says, “It is TSA’s top priority to make […]
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Not just ‘Democrat Agencies’: Trump shutdown firings touch bipartisan priorities
U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at the White House, following his annual physical exam at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 10, 2025. Ken Cedeno | Reuters President Donald Trump has vowed to target only “Democrat Agencies” for permanent staffing cuts amid the government shutdown — but the administration’s layoffs […]
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‘The job is stressful enough’: Air traffic controllers get partial paychecks as government shutdown heads for third week
An airplane takes off the control tower at Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, on Oct. 8, 2025. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images U.S. air traffic controllers have received partial paychecks, their union said Tuesday, and they could miss their next paychecks altogether if the government shutdown lasts another two weeks. “The job […]
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Trump trade rep says new 100% tariff on China depends on Beijing’s next move
President Donald Trump could still slap China with 100% tariffs on Nov. 1 or sooner depending on Beijing’s next move in a dispute over rare earths, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told CNBC Tuesday. “A lot depends on what the Chinese do,” Greer told CNBC in an interview. “They are the ones who have chosen […]
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DOJ seizes $15 billion in bitcoin from massive ‘pig butchering’ scam based in Cambodia
The Department of Justice has seized about $15 billion worth of bitcoin held by a man who oversaw a massive “pig butchering” fraud operation based in Cambodia, prosecutors said Tuesday. The seizure is the largest forfeiture action by the DOJ in history. An indictment charging the alleged pig butcher, Chen Zhi, was unsealed Tuesday in […]
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California just passed new AI and social media laws. Here’s what they mean for Big Tech
Governor Gavin Newsom speaks at Google San Francisco office about ‘Creating an AI-Ready Workforce’ that new joint effort with some of the world’s leading tech companies to help better prepare California’s students and workers for the next generation of technology, in San Francisco, California, United States on August 7, 2025. Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu | […]
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