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Trump Kicked Three Newsrooms Out of the White House. Look Who Got Their Seat.
CNN, MS NOW and Politico are suing over a press ban that hands access to friendlier outlets. Courts have pushed back on this playbook before, but the incentive structure is already doing its work.
Free Game NewsDoes The AI Boom Come With Higher Electric Bills For Americans?
A 417-to-3 House vote, a presidential push, and $18 billion of marked-down Oracle debt landed in the same week. The fight over who pays for artificial intelligence has officially started.
Free Game NewsCongress Voted to Punish Russia With Sanctions
The House passed the Lindsey Graham sanctions bill 262 to 159, targeting Moscow's oil money. The fine print gives one president sweeping, congressionally blessed power to tax imports from China, India, and maybe even allies, on the same day diesel hit a record and the Fed raised rates.
Free Game NewsThe Education Department Fired Half Its Staff. Now a Judge Wants the Receipts.
The Supreme Court let the mass layoffs happen without ruling on whether they were legal. The fight over 1,300 withheld documents could finally answer the question that matters: what did officials know the cuts would break?
Free Game News90% Chance Fed Hikes Today
Kevin Warsh's Fed is expected to raise rates to 3.75%-4.00% this afternoon, the first hike since 2023. The bigger story is a chairman who killed forward guidance, and what that costs everyone who borrows.
Free Game NewsCrypto's Holy-Grail Bill Just Died in the Senate
The industry spent more than $119 million electing a friendly Congress, got a bill through the House, and got a president lobbying for it personally. It still came up 11 votes short, because Democrats refused to look past the first family's crypto fortune.
Free Game NewsThe Men Building AI Just Asked for Speed Limits. Trump Disagrees.
Anthropic's CEO called for a slower AI race and won rare backing from Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Google DeepMind. Trump called the idea a hoax, Beijing called it fearmongering, and the market panicked. The fine print deserves a closer look.
Free Game NewsTrump's EPA Scrapped Climate Limits on Power Plants
The Houston announcement was sold as relief for your electric bill. The fine print is a legal theory built to stop any future president from regulating the largest stationary source of climate pollution, while the air gets dirtier in the specific neighborhoods that host these plants.
Free Game NewsThe Supreme Court Just Benched Trump's Mail Ballot Plan. The Bigger Fight Is Still on the Field.
The Court stopped the Postal Service from gatekeeping mail ballots this November, but the quiet war over who controls America's voter rolls is only getting started.
Free Game NewsTrump Puts a Date on Gas Price Relief, and the Date Is After You Vote
With Brent past $100 and diesel at a record $5.94, the president says the Iran war and the pain at the pump both end right after the midterms. He has made predictions like this before.
Free Game News3 More Officers Arrested For Abusing Flock Safety's License Plate Reader
Three more officers arrested, a fourth fired, and two Republican governors pulling the plug. The Flock scandal's real lesson is that mass surveillance came with audit logs, and almost nobody in charge was looking at them.
Free Game NewsKevin Warsh, Federal Reserve Chairman.
August CPI held at 3.4 percent, with war-driven energy prices doing nearly all the damage. The Fed's likely response, the first rate hike since 2023, raises what you pay on your credit card without touching what you pay at the pump.
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