Kevin Breuninger
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Treasury sanctions operation targets Iran's auto, rail industries in latest economic attack (opens the original)
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The Treasury Department on Thursday sanctioned Iran's automotive and rail sectors as part of the Trump administration's wartime effort to hobble Tehran by cutting off its remaining financial lifelines. Several companies connected to Iran's metals industry, including the Chinese subsidiary of Middle East machinery company HEPCO, are also being designated by the Office of Foreign Assets Control, Treasury said in a news release. The action is the latest to come from "Operation Economic Outcast," th
Judge dismisses Reflecting Pool case permanently, cites risk Trump will force new charges (opens the original)
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A judge on Thursday dismissed the criminal case accusing former U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and permanently barred prosecutors from refiling the same charges. District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Todd Edelman, in his order tossing the case "with prejudice," cited the "exceptional circumstances" of the risk that President Donald Trump would pressure prosecutors to re-charge Hearn. A dismissal with prejudice prevents a case from being
Trump 'thinking about' diesel export ban, but says it could have 'negative impact' on gasoline (opens the original)
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he is still "thinking about" banning diesel exports in an attempt to get a handle on high energy prices, but noted that doing so may have a "negative impact on gasoline." Trump, asked in the Oval Office if he has decided on a ban, said his aides think it would help diesel "but it might raise the price of other things." "And I think we're in a good place because oil prices are going to start to come down," Trump added. Just three days earlier, Trump said h
Trump’s latest global tariffs face trade court challenge | CNBC Africa (opens the original)
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President Donald Trump’s near-global tariff policy is being challenged in federal court — again. A panel of three judges at the U.S. Court of International Trade in Manhattan are hearing arguments Wednesday morning from a group of small businesses and Democratic-led states who say Trump’s sweeping “Section 301” tariffs overstep the law. It’s the third time in less than two years that the courts have been asked to intervene against the president’s attempt to impose sweeping tariffs on the vast ma
Trump tries to rename AI 'super intelligence' as polls show him sinking on key issue (opens the original)
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered all executive branch departments and agencies to use the term "super intelligence" instead of artificial intelligence. The executive order, announced by the White House after Trump hosted a lunch with a slew of AI leaders, shows the president attempting a forced rebrand for an industry he has tightly embraced even as Americans grow increasingly wary about the rapidly advancing tech. Multiple recent polls show majorities of Americans expressing concerns a
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