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Europe stealing market share: This month, it “unveiled a €500 million plan named ‘Choose Europe for Science’ aiming to lure foreign researchers to the EU.” @politico.com www.politico.eu/article/us-d...

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For folks unfamiliar with medical research, these are easily the top three medical journals in the US and in the top five internationally.

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General Motors has abandoned a plan to pump $300 million into electric-vehicle motor production at its upstate New York plant and will instead invest $888 million to make the latest V-8 engines

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BREAKING: NPR & public radio stations sue Trump over funding halts, argue such moves are an unconstitutional attempt to retaliate against the network because he doesn't like its content. Lead counsel: stymied GWBush DC Cir nominee Miguel Estrada. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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BIG scoop from team @FT President Trump's media company is preparing to raise $3bn to buy cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. The move comes as Trump promises pro-crypto regulation & administration officials will soon descend on Vegas for an industry confab. www.ft.com/content/cc55...

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An unusual collection of Senate leaders, British lords, environmentalists and a secretive lobbying group sought to block JBS from offering shares to US investors. But the SEC didn't have the power to stop the meat giant's US listing, E&E News reported last year. www.politico.com/news/2024/01...

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"As media companies race to integrate even more powerful and pervasive AI tools ... the writers and reporters on staff frequently have little say over how the technology is adopted. Politico’s fight could help change that by setting a precedent across the industry." www.wired.com/story/politi...

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One of the world's biggest data center booms is quietly underway just outside of Reno. Some projects have been covered, but few outlets have recognized the full scope of the plans. The developments will require gigawatts of new electricity generation & could consume billions of gallons of water.

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Tesla has changed its bylaws to limit the ability of its shareholders to sue the co. over alleged breach of fiduciary duty... Now you have to own 3% if you want to bring a derivative action - Texas law allows this. www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/t...

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If you build it, they will bike.

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(Reuters) - Food rations that could supply 3.5 million people for a month are mouldering in warehouses around the world because of U.S. aid cuts and risk becoming unusable, according to five people familiar with the situation. www.reuters.com/world/us-aid...

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Wow. Reuters reporting that Xi 'expected' to attend COP30. Climate geopolitics flipping fast with China now clearly keen to take "lead" with US under Trump in retreat. "Xi is also expected to visit Brazil for [COP30], which officials expect to include some 1,000 Chinese business leaders."

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The chair of Tesla’s board, Robyn Denholm, sold company stock in recent months while Elon Musk, the chief executive she oversees, worked for President Trump and alienated many car buyers. By doing so, she’s earned $198 million. nyti.ms/43pBrn3

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Nelson claimed a recent NSB statement was issued "without the participation or notice" of the board and said its private meeting had been monitored by a DOGE staffer, who "showed more interest in his water bottle and his cuticles than in the discussion." subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

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Trust the managing editor of the Denver Post. Don't trust Google's AI.

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The Trump Organization has entered into real estate deals in all three countries Trump plans to visit this week wapo.st/3F11lnU

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"The aircraft would need to be torn down and rebuilt from the inside out — including overhauling electrical wiring, avionics and power systems — to install secure presidential communications, self-defense tech and electromagnetic shielding."

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Excellent NYT graphic. In the space of about 3 months, tariffs on China: -- doubled; -- went up ≈ 2.5X from there; -- roughly doubled again; -- went up ≈ 40% from there; -- and now have dropped ≈ 80% from the peak -- but are still 3X what they were in February. www.nytimes.com/article/trum...

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“These terminations will inevitably result in emergency room visits or deaths that could and should have been avoided,” warned a Consumer Product Safety Commission leader fired by Trump, who was appointed in 2021 and confirmed unanimously by the Senate. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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“I do not believe it is in the best interests of the American people to eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency,” the agency's acting administrator said the day before he was fired. Trump has suggested abolishing or shrinking the disaster relief agency. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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Bill Gates criticizes Elon Musk for dismantling USAID. "He could go on to be a great philanthropist. In the meantime, the world’s richest man has been involved in the deaths of the world’s poorest children." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/m...

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National Science Foundation's union urged members of the agency's oversight board to speak out against the president's proposed 57 percent cut for NSF. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... The National Science Board didn't directly address the budget in a meeting Wednesday afternoon. But...

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Big scoop from Thomas Frank: "Congress counters Trump with massive FEMA restructuring plan ... in an effort to head off President Donald Trump’s threats to shrink or abolish the agency." www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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Another telling dodge from Sen. Kennedy: "I'm still reading the president's budget," he said Tuesday, when asked about how the proposal could impact Project Cypress. The 46-page budget was released last Friday and calls for cancelling funds committed to "removing carbon dioxide from the air."

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NEW: NOAA retires its widely cited billion-dollar weather and climate database amid staff cuts. Unique database had been tallying disaster costs for 45 years. www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c...

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Project Cypress, a $1 billion climate initiative in the district of Speaker Johnson, is at risk from President Trump's budget. But Johnson isn't rushing to protect the DAC development from Trump cuts. "I haven't had a chance to look at that yet." subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

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“The 2024 federal election cycle was the most secretive since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010.”- @annalecta.bsky.social www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res... Dark money groups, nonprofits, & shell companies spent $1.9 billion — almost double the record $1 billion spent in 2020.

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Tesla troubles: European business is getting worse as sales slump in April finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-t...

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"Driving past xAI in April, a loud, high-pitched buzzing filled the air, coming from the dozens of turbines... The air above the semitrailer-sized turbines seemed to shimmer as heat escaped, along with the products of burning methane gas." www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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Then-NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan said last summer that global warming research would continue if Trump were reelected because "the Googles of climate should be in the US." Now he's gone, and Trump has cancelled at least 60 climate research grants. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

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Amid relentless pressure from the Trump Administration, Columbia University says this morning that it's laying off 180 people who were doing federally funded research. "This represents about 20% of the individuals who are funded in some manner by the terminated grants."

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A coalition of former NSF leaders is urging lawmakers to reject Trump's "draconian budget plan." It'd "thwart scientific progress, decimate the research workforce, and take a decade or more to recover." subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene... Full document: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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"Buffett suggested that Berkshire, which has nearly $347.7 billion in cash on hand, would be willing to put some of that money toward upgrading the nation's antiquated electric system — but only with the right rules in place." subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

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Pope Francis’ Popemobile, “the very vehicle from which he waved and was close to millions of faithful all around the world, is being transformed into a mobile health unit for the children of Gaza.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

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🚨 Warren Buffett, who turns 95 in August, is stepping down after a 40-year run as Berkshire's CEO. 🚨 "The time has arrived where Greg [Abel] should become chief executive officer at year end." Abel has been his handpicked successor for several years. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

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Warren Buffett on Saturday criticized President Donald Trump’s hardline trade policy, without naming him directly, saying it’s a big mistake to slap punitive tariffs on the rest of the world.

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Happy Saturday. I'm watching the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting for E&E News via CNBC. I'm in good company. That's Apple CEO Tim Cook on the floor of the CHI Health Center Arena in Omaha, Nebraska.

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Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

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Trump wants to slash the National Science Foundation's budget by 57 percent, to $3.9 billion. The last time the science funding agency's budget was that low came in fiscal 2001 — before the arrival of podcasting, blockchain and gene-editing technologies. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

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Looking forward to more limericks from Senator Blumenthal.

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“The consequence will be empty shelves in US stores in a few weeks and Covid-like shortages for consumers and for firms using Chinese products as intermediate goods.” — Apollo Global Management Chief Economist Torsten Slok.

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A government-backed green building rating system is for the first time ordering project developers to consider climate impacts. The move follows an E&E News investigation that found hundreds of new LEED-certified buildings are at risk of flooding. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

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Scoop: A senior Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee is calling on the Trump administration to investigate potential national security risks from a nearly completed bid by the world's largest meat processor to list its shares on Wall Street. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

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The Business Roundtable is calling for a ban on climate-related shareholder resolutions. The CEO trade association is also targeting investor advisory firms because they tend to support climate proposals and to closely scrutinize executive compensation. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

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