Miles Roman
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Republicans in Washington came away from the recent elections with a clear takeaway: focus on the high cost of living or risk big losses in next year’s midterms.
President Trump isn’t convinced
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President Trump isn’t convinced
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Trump Dismisses Affordability Concerns, Insists Prices Are Coming Down
The president said the notion that the GOP performed poorly in the recent elections because of the cost of living is a Democratic “con job.”
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November 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Republicans in Washington came away from the recent elections with a clear takeaway: focus on the high cost of living or risk big losses in next year’s midterms.
President Trump isn’t convinced
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President Trump isn’t convinced
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“.. Mr. Xi’s message seemed to be: Beijing had proven its capacity to hit back and Washington would do well to remember it.”
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October 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
“.. Mr. Xi’s message seemed to be: Beijing had proven its capacity to hit back and Washington would do well to remember it.”
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Startups from Silicon Valley to Europe and beyond are racing to develop cheap, reliable systems to counter hostile drones appearing over airports and global shipping lanes far from the battlefield in Ukraine.
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Drone Threats Ignite Burst of Counterdrone Wizardry
Startups from Silicon Valley to Europe and beyond are racing to develop cheap, reliable systems to counter hostile drones.
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October 19, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Startups from Silicon Valley to Europe and beyond are racing to develop cheap, reliable systems to counter hostile drones appearing over airports and global shipping lanes far from the battlefield in Ukraine.
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Involution, simply stated, means that, even as China pursues global dominance in industries of the future—artificial intelligence, renewables, robotics—much of its economy is in a race to the bottom that threatens to devolve into widespread stagnation.
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A New Challenge for China’s Economy: ‘Involution’
Beijing is fighting to limit the damage from a pattern of price wars and excess capacity across multiple industries.
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October 19, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Involution, simply stated, means that, even as China pursues global dominance in industries of the future—artificial intelligence, renewables, robotics—much of its economy is in a race to the bottom that threatens to devolve into widespread stagnation.
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Two men rescued by the U.S. military after it attacked a boat in the Caribbean Sea were being sent to their home countries of Colombia and Ecuador, President Trump said
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U.S. Is Repatriating Survivors of Its Strike on Suspected Drug Vessel
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October 19, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Two men rescued by the U.S. military after it attacked a boat in the Caribbean Sea were being sent to their home countries of Colombia and Ecuador, President Trump said
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Large crowds turned out at ‘No Kings’ rallies on Saturday that took place in large cities and small towns nationwide.
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‘No More Trump!’: Protesters Denouncing the President Unite Across the Country
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October 19, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Large crowds turned out at ‘No Kings’ rallies on Saturday that took place in large cities and small towns nationwide.
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A bipartisan group in the Senate is planning to force a vote on legislation that would bar the United States from engaging in hostilities inside Venezuela without explicit authorization by Congress.
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Senators Move to Force Vote to Bar Ground Strikes in Venezuela
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October 18, 2025 at 3:25 AM
A bipartisan group in the Senate is planning to force a vote on legislation that would bar the United States from engaging in hostilities inside Venezuela without explicit authorization by Congress.
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The military commander overseeing the Pentagon’s escalating attacks against boats in the Caribbean Sea that the Trump administration says are smuggling drugs said on Thursday that he was stepping down.
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Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say
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October 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The military commander overseeing the Pentagon’s escalating attacks against boats in the Caribbean Sea that the Trump administration says are smuggling drugs said on Thursday that he was stepping down.
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The Chinese Communist Party has expelled nine top generals in one of its largest public crackdowns on the military in decades.
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China: Communist Party expels top generals in military crackdown
The expulsions include China's second highest ranking military official.
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October 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The Chinese Communist Party has expelled nine top generals in one of its largest public crackdowns on the military in decades.
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Even as Mr. Putin has pounded Ukrainian cities and waged grinding warfare in the country’s east, he has invested dozens of hours into flattering Mr. Trump, dangling the prospect of Russian-American business deals and sending the message that Russia is open to talks.
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Putin’s Trump Strategy: Lots of Flattery, and Talk of Business Deals
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October 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Even as Mr. Putin has pounded Ukrainian cities and waged grinding warfare in the country’s east, he has invested dozens of hours into flattering Mr. Trump, dangling the prospect of Russian-American business deals and sending the message that Russia is open to talks.
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The Trump administration is preparing sweeping changes at the Internal Revenue Service that would allow the agency to pursue criminal inquiries of left-leaning groups more easily.
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Exclusive | Trump Team Plans IRS Overhaul to Enable Pursuit of Left-Leaning Groups
The effort would install a Trump ally at the IRS’s criminal unit who has drawn up a list of investigative targets.
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October 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The Trump administration is preparing sweeping changes at the Internal Revenue Service that would allow the agency to pursue criminal inquiries of left-leaning groups more easily.
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Bypassing the grid, at least temporarily, tech companies are creating an energy Wild West; ‘grab yourself a couple of turbines’
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AI Data Centers, Desperate for Electricity, Are Building Their Own Power Plants
Utilities are pushing to increase supply, but meeting the surge in demand won’t be easy or fast. Tech companies aren’t waiting around.
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October 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Bypassing the grid, at least temporarily, tech companies are creating an energy Wild West; ‘grab yourself a couple of turbines’
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Top officials, unwilling to fight for the independence of their institutions, watched on Wednesday as President Trump continued his pursuit of controlling law enforcement.
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Trump Names More Foes He Wants Prosecuted as Bondi and Patel Look On
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October 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Top officials, unwilling to fight for the independence of their institutions, watched on Wednesday as President Trump continued his pursuit of controlling law enforcement.
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Mr Trump’s paradoxical approach to free markets, which involves a light touch on antitrust issues while using deals, along with tariff exemptions, as tools of private-sector coercion and industrial policy. Anything goes until it displeases the boss, as in a casino.
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Never mind America’s real economy. Its deal economy is booming
Donald Trump has unleashed an M&A bonanza
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October 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Mr Trump’s paradoxical approach to free markets, which involves a light touch on antitrust issues while using deals, along with tariff exemptions, as tools of private-sector coercion and industrial policy. Anything goes until it displeases the boss, as in a casino.
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The three corps are examples of Ukraine’s extraordinary capacity for self-organisation, and of how business skills can be applied to the armed forces. With cult status among the public, they could also become launchpads for post-war political careers.
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Ukraine’s most prestigious military units are run like businesses
Marketing and human-resources departments are key
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October 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The three corps are examples of Ukraine’s extraordinary capacity for self-organisation, and of how business skills can be applied to the armed forces. With cult status among the public, they could also become launchpads for post-war political careers.
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For over a decade, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority has been chipping away at this landmark civil rights legislation.
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Opinion | The Shadow of Jim Crow Looms Over the Supreme Court
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October 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
For over a decade, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority has been chipping away at this landmark civil rights legislation.
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The president’s personal business and his government role intersected this week when he was heard on a hot mic arranging a meeting between his son Eric, who runs the family company, and Indonesia’s leader.
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‘I’ll Have Eric Call’: Trump Sets Up Son’s Meeting With Indonesian President
A hot-mic moment suggested a blurry line between the U.S. president’s roles as political leader and businessman.
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October 15, 2025 at 11:35 AM
The president’s personal business and his government role intersected this week when he was heard on a hot mic arranging a meeting between his son Eric, who runs the family company, and Indonesia’s leader.
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China’s leader, Xi Jinping, is betting that the U.S. economy can’t absorb a prolonged trade conflict with the world’s second-largest economy.
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China, Betting It Can Win a Trade War, Is Playing Hardball With Trump
Chinese leader Xi Jinping thinks the president will fold before launching new tariffs that would roil markets.
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October 15, 2025 at 3:32 AM
China’s leader, Xi Jinping, is betting that the U.S. economy can’t absorb a prolonged trade conflict with the world’s second-largest economy.
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Drawn by local talent, cheap labor and state cash incentives, start-ups building the weapons of the future are revitalizing manufacturing in once-vibrant industrial towns.
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Factory Towns Revive as Defense Tech Makers Arrive
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October 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Drawn by local talent, cheap labor and state cash incentives, start-ups building the weapons of the future are revitalizing manufacturing in once-vibrant industrial towns.
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As the Supreme Court seems poised to expand the president’s power, a leading scholar whose work the justices have often cited issued a provocative dissent.
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Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump’s Power to Fire Officials
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October 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
As the Supreme Court seems poised to expand the president’s power, a leading scholar whose work the justices have often cited issued a provocative dissent.
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Reliability is for losers. Strength keeps superpowers safe. Some version of that bleak philosophy appears to unite the supreme leaders of China and America.
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China tries shock-and-awe on Donald Trump
Xi Jinping bets that dramatic escalation is the way to win a trade war
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October 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Reliability is for losers. Strength keeps superpowers safe. Some version of that bleak philosophy appears to unite the supreme leaders of China and America.
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The Dutch government wrested control of a Netherlands-based semiconductor company from its Chinese owner, a new flare-up in tensions between China and the West over key technologies and materials.
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Dutch Government Takes Control of Chip Maker From Chinese Parent
In a “highly exceptional” move, the Dutch government wrested power of Netherlands-based Nexperia from owner Wingtech, citing risks to economic security.
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October 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The Dutch government wrested control of a Netherlands-based semiconductor company from its Chinese owner, a new flare-up in tensions between China and the West over key technologies and materials.
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…its breadth and its focus on red-hot tech shares and smaller banks rattled some analysts and portfolio managers, who had come to believe that the 2025 market advance had grown immune to trade-war tensions.
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Rekindling of Tariff Fight Pressures Wall Street’s Hottest Trades
Friday’s market slide—fueled by President Trump’s new threat of “massive” tariffs on goods from China—rattled some investors who thought the 2025 market advance was immune to trade-war tensions
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October 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
…its breadth and its focus on red-hot tech shares and smaller banks rattled some analysts and portfolio managers, who had come to believe that the 2025 market advance had grown immune to trade-war tensions.
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Brick by brick, President Donald Trump is building a wall around the world’s largest economy.
Donald Trump’s fortress economy is starting to hurt America
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Donald Trump’s fortress economy is starting to hurt America
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Donald Trump’s fortress economy is starting to hurt America
The pain from trade and immigration restrictions cannot be postponed forever
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October 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Brick by brick, President Donald Trump is building a wall around the world’s largest economy.
Donald Trump’s fortress economy is starting to hurt America
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Donald Trump’s fortress economy is starting to hurt America
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According to a photo of a private text on the phone of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Argentina responded to the treasury secretary’s $20 billion bailout by turning around and removing its export taxes on soybeans & striking a huge new deal with China. China then immediately pulled out of its...
Leaked texts on Scott Bessent’s phone suggest the White House got played bailing out Argentina—and U.S. soybean farmers are the casualties
“This is highly unfortunate,” the text said. “Soy prices are dropping further because of it. This gives China more leverage on us.”
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October 3, 2025 at 11:43 PM
According to a photo of a private text on the phone of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Argentina responded to the treasury secretary’s $20 billion bailout by turning around and removing its export taxes on soybeans & striking a huge new deal with China. China then immediately pulled out of its...