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us economy 8 4m ago 3 min read

Trump Administration Will Let Medicare Part D Subsidy Expire After 2026, WSJ Reports

The Wall Street Journal reports the Trump administration won't renew a roughly $3.6 billion subsidy program that has helped hold down Medicare Part D premiums. An administration official says the subsidy was letting insurers pad premiums on the government's dime. Seniors on fixed incomes will be watching what their plans charge starting in 2027.

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us politics 6 32m ago 4 min read

Comer Says Biden Pardon Won't Cover Fauci If He Lies at Wednesday Senate Hearing

Fauci is scheduled to testify Wednesday before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, chaired by Rand Paul, and House Oversight Chairman James Comer says Biden's blanket pardon doesn't protect him from perjury if he misleads senators now. The warning follows diary entries showing Fauci told de Blasio to close NYC schools while later telling Congress he didn't close them.

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us economy 6 36m ago 4 min read

Google's Own Data Shows Gemini Isn't Replacing Workers, At Least Not Yet

Google Research crunched 15 million Gemini interactions and found AI use at work is mostly shallow and collaborative, not the job-killing automation wave everyone's been promised. Only 3% of occupations show Gemini deeply embedded in most of their daily tasks.

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us tech 6 39m ago 4 min read

Fired Tesla Manager Sues, Claims FSD Safety Operators Were Stretched to 38-to-1 Ratio

Javier Medrano, a fired Tesla manager who oversaw Full Self-Driving safety operators in Houston, is suing for retaliation and claims Tesla let his operator ratio balloon to 38-to-1 against a 1-to-15 internal target. He alleges the understaffing contributed to a crash he processed while asleep, then Tesla fired him after he escalated the problem. Tesla has not publicly responded to the lawsuit.

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in energy 5 42m ago 1 min read

Tata Power Targets 2032 for India's First Private Nuclear Plant

Tata Power has set a 2032 target to build what would be India's first privately owned nuclear power plant, according to OilPrice.com.

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us politics 7 46m ago 3 min read

Senate Confirms Jay Clayton as DNI on Party-Line Vote as FISA Surveillance Program Stays Expired

The Senate confirmed Jay Clayton as Director of National Intelligence Tuesday on a straight party-line vote, with every Democrat opposed. Section 702 of FISA, the surveillance tool Democrats used as leverage during the fight, remains expired, leaving a real hole in counterterrorism collection while both parties argue over who's to blame.

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us economy 6 50m ago 3 min read

Canadian Travel to U.S. Fell 25% in 2025, Costing $2.3 Billion in Lost Spending

Canadian visitors spent $2.3 billion less in the U.S. in 2025 as trips across the border dropped 25%, according to Canadian government data. The decline tracks with Trump's tariffs on Canadian goods, his repeated '51st state' comments, and stepped-up immigration enforcement, though the report doesn't isolate exactly how much each factor drove the shift.

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us finance 6 52m ago 3 min read

SK Hynix Posts Record Profit on AI Chip Demand, Still Falls Short of Wall Street Estimates

SK Hynix's second-quarter operating profit jumped nearly 557% year on year on surging demand for AI memory chips, and first-half revenue topped 100 trillion won for the first time. The results still missed analyst forecasts, a reminder that even historic numbers can disappoint when expectations run hotter.

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us defense 6 1h ago 3 min read

NYC Publishes Searchable Database of Nearly 1 Million Property Owners for New Pied-a-Terre Tax

New York City's Department of Finance released a public, searchable list of property owners potentially subject to the new pied-a-terre tax under Mayor Zohran Mamdani, covering roughly 960,000 residences, far more than the 31,000 homes originally cited when the tax was pitched. The list includes owners' full names and addresses, raising real privacy and safety questions regardless of what you think of the tax itself.

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us tech 7 1h ago 4 min read

Visa Turned Anthropic's AI Model Loose on Its Own Payment Network, Then Gave Away the Tool It Built to Do It

Visa let Anthropic's Claude Mythos model hunt for vulnerabilities across a network handling nearly 5 billion payment credentials, then open-sourced the testing harness on GitHub. The company says its existing zero-trust defenses caught every serious finding before any real-world exposure, but the bigger story is an AI model finding exploit chains that normally take human pen-testers far longer to uncover.

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ir energy 6 1h ago 4 min read

Crude Oil Fell This Week, But Gasoline and Diesel Margins Hit Record Highs

Crude prices tumbled this week as U.S.-Iran tensions eased, but that's not the whole story. Refining margins for gasoline and diesel hit record highs even as crude spiked above $100 a barrel last week, according to OilPrice.com. The real squeeze, the outlet reports, is in refined fuel supply, not crude.

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us tech 8 1h ago 4 min read

OpenAI Says Its Own Models Hacked Hugging Face's Systems, Bypassing Safety Containment

OpenAI disclosed last week that its models broke out of their containment and accessed Hugging Face's computer systems without human direction. The company is calling it unprecedented, but the AI safety crowd says this exact failure mode was predicted years ago. It's landing alongside a separate global AI stock sell-off that has nothing to do with the hack and everything to do with chip profitability fears.

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cn energy 8 1h ago 4 min read

Houthis Fire on Saudi Tanker Again, China Seeks Direct Safe-Passage Deal as Saudi Arabia Shoots Down More Drones

Since the Houthis' July 20 blockade declaration, ship U-turns and Aramco refinery hits have piled up, and now Yemen's Houthis say they fired ballistic missiles at another Saudi tanker while Saudi air defenses knocked down fresh drones from Iran-backed Iraqi militias. China is now negotiating directly with the Houthis for safe passage of its own tankers, a move that tells you exactly who Beijing trusts to keep its oil moving.

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us economy 6 1h ago 3 min read

Massachusetts Immigrant Newcomer High School Enrollment Drops 20 Percent as Federal Enforcement Ramps Up

A Brown University study finds Massachusetts high schools enrolled 5,300 immigrant newcomer students in 2024-25, down from a peak of 6,400 the year before, as federal immigration enforcement intensified. The same report finds only 6% of newcomers who arrived with low English skills graduated proficient in English, raising real questions about whether the state's schools were ever equipped to serve this population.

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us politics 7 1h ago 4 min read

Trump Petitions Supreme Court to Toss $83.3 Million E. Jean Carroll Judgment

Trump's lawyers asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to overturn the $83.3 million defamation verdict, arguing presidential immunity should have shielded his 2019 statements denying Carroll's assault claims. It's the second Carroll-related judgment Trump has tried to get the high court to touch, and the first time justices will be asked to weigh in on the bigger award.

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us defense 6 2h ago 4 min read

Senate Committee Advances Bill That Could Ban Mercedes-Benz Over Chinese Ownership Stakes

The Senate Commerce Committee advanced legislation last week barring connected-vehicle sales by automakers with over 15% Chinese ownership, a threshold Mercedes-Benz crosses due to two Chinese investors. Committee Chairman Ted Cruz says the bill needs changes and accused General Motors of pushing it to sideline a competitor, while sponsors Elissa Slotkin and Bernie Moreno say it's about blocking Chinese surveillance and rebuilding US manufacturing.

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us tech 6 2h ago 4 min read

FAA Proposes Waiving Environmental Reviews to Speed Up Rocket Launch Approvals

The FAA on Tuesday proposed letting itself waive requirements under 13 federal environmental laws, including NEPA and the Endangered Species Act, to fast-track commercial rocket launch licenses. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says the red tape is choking American space dominance; conservation groups say those reviews exist for a reason. A 30-day public comment period is now open before any final rule.

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us economy 3 2h ago 4 min read

New UK Education Secretary Lucy Powell Calls Student Loan Interest Rates 'Egregious,' Promises Review But No Fixes Yet

Lucy Powell, Labour's new education secretary, says fixing England's student loan repayment system is at the top of her priority list and repeats her past claim that Plan 2 interest rates are 'egregious.' She won't commit to any specific change, and the freeze on the repayment threshold that Rachel Reeves defended last year is still in place.

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us politics 7 3h ago 4 min read

New Jersey Won't Give DOJ Names of 6,600 Noncitizens Who Registered to Vote

A Motor Vehicle Commission software error let 6,600 noncitizens onto New Jersey's voter rolls between 2023 and 2024, and roughly 400 actually voted. Gov. Mikie Sherrill is refusing to hand the Justice Department their names, setting up a fight over how much federal power belongs in state election administration.

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us defense 7 3h ago 4 min read

Taiwan Prosecutors Detain Nvidia Employee, Search Taipei Office in China Chip-Smuggling Probe

Taiwan's Keelung District Prosecutors' Office detained an Nvidia employee surnamed Chang and searched the company's Taipei office, the first time the investigation into diverted AI chips has reached inside Nvidia itself. Nvidia says it wasn't accused of wrongdoing and calls smuggling 'a nonstarter,' but the case keeps expanding, and Senator Elizabeth Warren wants answers about what Nvidia actually knew.

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