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US diesel futures rose 5% by midday Tuesday to their highest level in weeks, NBC News reported. In our view, fuel and freight budgets for this quarter should assume higher costs, because the administration's relief measures have not held prices down so far.
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Sen. Thom Tillis questions whether Trump can legally waive sanctions on Russian diesel with the midterm elections due next month. Cryptopolitan reports that analysts do not foresee an enduring price drop from it.
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Bitcoin fell to about $81,000 on Thursday as Brent crude rose above $105 on reports that the US may strike Iran again. Whether it holds the $82,500 support traders are watching now depends largely on Treasury yields and oil prices.
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Sen. Ruben Gallego, weighing a 2028 bid, proposes a $20 minimum wage and a public jobs program funded by taxes on data centers and big AI firms' revenue. Most employers would feel the wage floor first, since the AI taxes fund only the jobs program and a separate robot tax targets firms that automate work away.
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CivicPulse found 41% of local officials report substantial negative effects from polarization, about 10 points above its three previous surveys. Cost of living ranks among the top drivers, and it is too early to tell whether the rise outlasts the midterms.
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Raja Krishnamoorthi's letter to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy pairs 43 catalogued videos of sleeping Tesla drivers with the in-car message that invites a driver the car has flagged as drowsy to switch on Full Self-Driving.
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Seventy percent of American adults say they are more worried than excited about AI, and the one exception in the polling is scientific research and medicine. The fastest uptake inside medicine is administrative.
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The San Francisco Fed's Adam Shapiro flagged the crossover in Bureau of Economic Analysis data. The margin is about half a percent, and S&P Global expects the six biggest spenders to run negative operating cash flow through 2027.
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The same survey puts overall opposition at 61 percent among 1,503 likely voters, and New York's pause on large data-centre permits has not moved, so the people siting capacity are negotiating local politics in both parties.
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OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra video shows the model driving Blender on voice commands. The 3D and game-development communities spent the next two days telling OpenAI to stay away from human-made art, and a Fast Company column argues that better demos now land worse.
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Tesla's guidance for a Cybercab stuck in an intersection begins with a call to the company and bottoms out at a crew shoving the car by hand. The quoted passages never say how they get a dead one into Neutral.
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Anthony D'Esposito's 44-page report sustains its policy findings on 38 witness accounts and declines to sustain the relationship allegation. The former secretary's lawyer answers a legal question the report never asked.
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Three investigators got six days inside OpenAI and roughly 1,300 agent transcripts to read, so they delegated the reading to AI, and the AI kept siding with the agents it was investigating, at about $66,700 a day of the lab's credits.
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Paxton's four-point plan and Talarico's veto-and-water platform share no instrument, only a direction. The escape route both leave open is the off-grid power plant.
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Tehran told Gulf states on August 22 that helping enforce US sanctions counts as an act of war. With its own exports down roughly 77 to 80 percent, the self-deterrence argument is thinner.
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Marshall, Michigan got its threat ten days after passing the moratorium opponents wanted. Officials in three states are voting with police nearby, and public comment is being closed.
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ABC, Disney and eight owned stations sued the FCC on First Amendment grounds to halt an early license review the network says is retaliation for its speech.
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