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More Than 400,000 Wireless Phone Chargers Are Recalled Over Fire Hazard

Casely, a company in Brooklyn, received 51 reports of lithium-ion batteries overheating, expanding or catching fire, resulting in six minor burn injuries.More than 400,000 Casely wireless phone chargers were recalled on Thursday over concerns that they could pose a fire hazard,…

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The Trump Billionaires Who Run the Economy and the Things They Say

“You have to laugh to keep from crying,” one Republican pollster said about recent comments by the billionaires on the stock market, retirement funds and Social Security.Sometimes the billionaires running the federal government sound like they’re talking to other billionaires.“THIS IS…

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Carmakers Highlight U.S. Manufacturing in Bid to Influence Trump Over Tariffs

Wary of directly criticizing the president’s trade policies, automakers are emphasizing how much they have already invested in U.S. manufacturing.Car company executives have been reluctant to directly criticize President Trump’s 25 percent tariffs on imported cars and car parts, despite a…

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Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard

An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.Harvard University received an emailed letter from the Trump administration last Friday that included a series of demands about hiring, admissions…

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Trump-Allied Prosecutor Sends Letters to Medical Journals Alleging Bias

An interim U.S. attorney is demanding information about the selection of research articles and the role of N.I.H. Experts worry this will have a chilling effect on publications.A federal prosecutor has sent letters to at least three medical journals accusing them…

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Trump Shifted on Tariffs After Bond Holders Got Jittery. He Held Millions Himself.

As of August, the president’s investment portfolio showed significantly more in bonds than in stocks. It is unclear if his personal holdings had any bearing on his decisions regarding tariffs.When President Trump paused a punishing round of global tariffs last week,…

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Head of I.R.S. Being Ousted Amid Treasury’s Power Struggle With Elon Musk

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained to President Trump that the acting commissioner had been installed without his knowledge.The acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service is being replaced after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained to President Trump that the latest leader…

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‘A great example of a circular economy in action’: United Utilities and Levidian explore how to use sewage waste to produce clean hydrogen

Gas from sewage waste could soon be used to produce clean hydrogen, as part of a "first-of-its-kind" trial from United Utilities and climate tech firm Levidian. Levidian announced yesterday it is working...

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‘Using more clean energy than ever before’: Apple confirms its emissions have fallen 60 per cent since 2015

Tech giant Apple may be one of many US corporates wrestling with the fallout from the confusion surrounding President Trump's trade war, but the company's sustainability efforts still gave it something...

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Trump Administration Aims to Redefine ‘Harm’ for Endangered Species

Trump officials have proposed changing adecades-old interpretation of a key word in the Endangered Species Act, which would make it much easier to log, build or drill for oil.The Trump administration is moving to weaken the half-century-old Endangered Species Act by…

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