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U.S. President Donald Trump told oil producers and refiners that he wants lower gasoline prices, immediately, at a meeting at the White House this week. As gasoline prices remain above $4 per gallon on average across the United States and...
We recorded this week’s episode of Sharp China earlier today - China's Global Strategy; Tragedy on the Nepal-Tibet Border; A 19-1 Vote at the G-20; TikTok Dodges Congress - and will come out at 5AM ET Friday, and will be...
Big Tech is betting trillions of dollars on artificial intelligence, with a lot of that to be spent on building the data centers that would power large language models. Stock markets are reflecting this in Big Tech stocks, but that’s...
Plessey Semiconductors manufactures monolithic MicroLED displays for near-eye augmented-reality systems, where pixel pitch, brightness, uniformity, and defect density directly determine usable yield. Its process integrates device design, epitaxy, wafer fabrication, bonding, and production in one facility. The displays… Read More The...
The daily benchmark measuring the cost of shipping raw materials across major global maritime routes is breaking out to a nearly three-year high this week, as Bloomberg reports that typhoons are squeezing the supply of Capesize vessels just as mining...
Heavy trucks were supposed to be the place where batteries stopped working. Electric cars could manage school runs and commuting, critics conceded. But long-distance freight needed range, rapid refueling and maximum payload. Batteries would be too large, too heavy and...
GAZA (PNN) — By Islam Al-Mazloom In a tent among the displaced, a piece of cloth can become a curtain, an empty can of peas a puppet, and a narrow street or small square a stage. Here, Palestinian artists are reinventing...
On August 26, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two Palestine advocacy groups—Palestine Action and Masar Badil—along with an anti-fascist group, Autistici/Inventati, designating them as Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) organizations. These designations seek...
Freedom Edge 26’s nuclear-capable bomber component, paired with unusually explicit official language about North Korea’s “nuclear and missile threats,” is not deterrence signaling aimed at Pyongyang — it is compensatory reassurance aimed at Seoul and Tokyo, timed to offset the...
It was a relatively subdued Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit for Chinese leader Xi Jinping. He departed the host city Bishkek having made few attention-grabbing headlines. There were no big announcements or viral moments, unlike at 2025’s SCO summit on Xi’s...
Abductions are resurging and may be spreading to new areas – with young children among the victims. A military response alone won’t work Early last month, Nigeria’s government announced the largest single-day hostage rescue in its history, with the freeing of...
War has always been a brutal engine of medical innovation, running on a feedback loop: Civilian breakthroughs are adapted for the battlefield, while battlefield necessity pushes advances back into civilian care. We asked three experts to identify the innovations from...
China’s oil consumption fell 9% year over year in the second quarter as expensive crude accelerated the use of electric cars, trucks, rail and industrial equipment. The decline helped cut China’s carbon dioxide emissions by 1% during the quarter, according...
This is a web version of The Lever ’s daily email newsletter. 🔥 New on Lever Time : Susan Collins isn’t out of the woods yet . 👀 Watch: AOC tells The Lever about her 2028 calculus . 👇 Further down in this...
The drone strike that hit a gasoline tank at the Zawiya refinery in August was more than a security incident. Zawiya is Libya’s largest operating refining facility, and the National Oil Corporation warned that continued attacks could force operations to...
Dr. Karishma Manzur challenges the Democratic establishment in New Hampshire with an insurgent progressive senatorial campaign. Manzur aims to restore the true meaning of ‘public service.’ Transcript Chris Hedges: Dr. Karishma Manzur is a medical scientist with a PhD in biochemistry and molecular...
Preamble Hardware-assisted verification (HAV) platforms, including hardware emulators and FPGA-based prototyping systems, are the two dominant methodologies for validating long workloads on complex System-on-Chip (SoC) designs before tape-out . HAV sits within a broader continuum of verification engines : simulation …...
Money organized through finance is a bet on, and a catalyst for, a particular vision of the future. Arjun Jayadev teaches Economics at Azim Premji University and is a Senior Economist at the Institute for New Economic Thinking. J. W. Mason is...
Brazil's Congress passed a bill Wednesday letting the government block foreign takeovers of mining companies and scrutinize who gets access to the country's mineral reserves…the thing is, though...Brazil still can't turn its rare earth ore into a single magnet, and...
Afghans areno longer welcome by those who once helped them leave Afghanistan, abandoning them, no longer wanted. Western Values eh? Go figure. Kathy Gannon is the former AP News Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Four decades reporting the fault lines of...
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado is backing a long-term U.S. role in developing the country’s oil reserves, even as she questions who has the authority to sign the sweeping agreement announced by acting President Delcy Rodríguez. Machado said Thursday...
The architect of President Donald Trump’s artificial intelligence plan to bulldoze environmental safeguards and restrict states from regulating the nascent technology just admitted he downplayed the tech’s existential risks. In a new blog post , he now says AI “rogue...
President Donald Trump is not content with gutting the U.S. National Park Service. After slashing its staff and budget, and opening up tracts of public land to mining and logging activities, the administration has spent the past year trying to...
I joke a lot about lawyers, but I do actually know more than a handful, and I like them well enough. They’re like any other group of people out there. Some are good, some are bad, and some can’t be...
Norway has seized a Russian commercial cruise ship off the Svalbard archipelago at the request of Ukrainian oil and gas firm Naftogaz, which is seeking enforcement of a $4.22 billion award over Russia’s asset expropriation when it annexed Crimea. “At...
The following story is co-published with Joe Cirincione’s Substack. Aug. 28 marked the beginning of the seventh month of a war Donald Trump began on a whim, waged incoherently and lost decisively. But in the demented, steadily shrinking Trump World, he...
Low-wage U.S. workers have faced multiple rising threats to their economic and personal security over the past year. Aggressive actions by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have terrorized immigrant workers, who are disproportionately represented at the bottom of the corporate...
In the climactic scene of Martin Ritt’s 1979 drama “Norma Rae,” Sally Field’s character climbs onto a cutting table in a textile mill, writes “UNION” in marker on a scrap of cardboard, and holds up the makeshift sign in silence. For...
The House passed legislation Thursday that would put federal funding at risk for universities that participate in certain boycotts of Israel, despite warnings from critics that the measure could chill political expression and effectively extend anti-boycott protections to Israeli settlements...
The average price of diesel in the United States hit $5.7832 per gallon on Thursday, which is just three cents lower than the record-high of $5.8159 in mid-June 2022, when the Russian invasion of Ukraine sent fuel prices to record...
Russia collected 326.2 billion rubles, or about $3.76 billion, in net oil revenue in August, down 22% from a year earlier and the lowest monthly total since February. Russia’s tax authority calculated August oil revenues using a crude price of...
The dip in Russian oil production is only temporary, as output is expected to recover once refineries come back online after unscheduled maintenance, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Thursday. “This is a temporary phenomenon, and, generally, oil production...
The timing of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Egypt in September 2026, coinciding with the signing of the (New Strategic Partnership Framework) between Ethiopia and the United States in August 2026, holds significant geopolitical importance. It serves as a...
Each year, people from across the world gather in a grove sacred to the Yoruba goddess Osun to be healed, conceive or realise their deepest wishes. But toxic lead, mercury and cyanide is leaching into the river 7Devotees in white clothing...
Pedro Sánchez continues to defend Rabat after police report claiming border forces helped 70,000 cross border - Europe live – latest updates Spain has seen no evidence “whatsoever” that Morocco planned or facilitated a mass border breach into its north African territory...
Several Chinese tech companies, including Alibaba, ByteDance and Tencent, have reportedly accessed compute power from GB300 chips remotely through data centers in Asian countries including Thailand, Malaysia and Japan. Less than a week after another Chinese company, Moonshot AI, released...
Since fighting began in late February, Iranian retaliation has reached U.S. bases and Gulf infrastructure while disruption in the Strait of Hormuz has repeatedly threatened energy exports and maritime trade. Roughly a fifth of global oil flows normally passes through...
OPEC’s second-largest producer, Iraq, more than doubled its crude oil exports via the Strait of Hormuz in August as it offered month-watering discounts for loadings at Basrah in the Persian Gulf and Iran allowed Iraqi oil cargoes to transit the...
Washington is changing some of its most reliable military partnerships in the Middle East because it believes states, markets, and diplomacy can deliver what American troops and Kurdish proxies increasingly cannot. The End of the Post-ISIS* Bargain The juxtaposition could...
Damaged refineries in the Middle East and Russia and insufficient capacity elsewhere to offset the supply disruptions will likely keep global fuel prices elevated into the next year, analysts say. The Middle East conflict and the Iranian and Houthi strikes...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said there is still a possibility of reaching a peace agreement to end the war in Ukraine, while arguing that recent Ukrainian attacks on shipping and warnings over Russian airspace have made the resumption of negotiations...
U.S. technology giants are increasingly turning to European bond markets to finance their massive AI and data centre investments. The shift is raising concerns that their growing demand for euro denominated debt could compete with European companies and governments for...
Claim relating to 1960 attack on hundreds of protesters part of wave of litigation over apartheid crimes in South Africa The day dawned brightly on 21 March 1960, as residents of the South African township of Sharpeville gathered to protest against...
A few days ago, the Chinese government had the opportunity to reverse the current downturn in China-Japan relations, the worst in years. A delegation of Japanese lawmakers representing the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the opposition parties Komeito and Centrist...
TODAY’S NUMBERS $4,334 (gold, per ounce, near record) · $200bn (Russian reserves frozen at Euroclear) · Sept. 15 (deadline for the EU’s Russia sanctions list to lapse). Gold near records prices geopolitical risk broadly; the frozen-assets deadlock and an expiring...
Europe’s lowest levels of natural gas in storage in nearly two decades risk intensifying the race for LNG supply in the coming months as both Europe and Asia are competing for a shrinking pool of supply, with the Middle East’s...
By almost every explanation on offer for the bond selloff underway treats it as a familiar story wearing a new coat. Too much debt, too much deficit, inflation refusing to die down. All are true. But none of it fully...
The El Niño weather phenomenon is expected to intensify through 2027 and could become the strongest ever recorded, according to the World Meteorological Organization. The WMO says there is a near 100% probability that El Niño will persist through February...
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