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A 1950 US law granting the president authority to direct private industry production and allocate resources for national defense and emergency needs.
Mark Paoletta's June 2025 opinion, reviewed by Semafor, called the deal necessary to avoid an imminent threat to human life and government property. The Pentagon has since taken equity or warrants in at least 10 companies.
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Dubai crude rose $14.4 in a week to $114.7 a barrel while the Korean pump average fell 1.1 won to 1,859.1 a liter. The government's ninth-round maximum for gasoline is 1,784 won, and the report does not explain the gap.
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Judge Rita Lin permanently barred the administration from punishing Anthropic over its limits on surveillance and autonomous weapons work, while leaving the government free to take its business elsewhere.
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Intel is up more than 300% since the stake talks leaked and down 37% since June, and the part of that gain still standing depends on courts and the next Congress leaving federal equity stakes alone.
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Judge Rita Lin found the Pentagon's designation was retaliation for Anthropic's published usage limits. The sabotage theory behind it collapsed because nothing in the record explained how sabotage would work.
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Annenberg finds 70% of Republicans and 69% of Democrats favor banning the herbicide, while most respondents say they have heard little about it. A one-point party gap is not a gap at all.
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Shareholder returns at Lockheed, RTX, Northrop and General Dynamics fell about $1.5 billion in one quarter after a January order tied buybacks to delivery performance.
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