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‘Lipstick on a pig’: Trump’s red-dyed diesel plan is more midterms appeal than gas price solution, experts say—and even truckers are calling his bluff

As the Iran war keeps diesel prices above $6 per gallon, analysts say the only way to lower costs is to ease geopolitical tensions.

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Trump’s tariffs were meant to shrink the trade deficit—but the $106 billion gap just reached its widest since before ‘Liberation Day’

The Trump administration has called the trade deficit a “national emergency,” but economists say it’s actually a sign of a resilient American economy.

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Citi shortens its analyst program to two years as Wall Street fights private equity for young talent

“The reality that private equity is interviewing so early in a banker’s career is very unfortunate, and to some extent, disappointing,” one Citi...

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Meet the ‘mini Erin Brockoviches’ fighting off eminent domain—and the shadow of Amazon—as a data center hands out $10,000 to their neighbors

Rural Pennsylvanians are protesting a proposed 1,300-acre data center called Project Hazelnut — not Amazon, as documents suggest.

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Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses

The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.

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Thieves stole an Nvidia-branded truck filled with just 20,000 pounds of sand—and it points to Big Tech’s $150 million AI hardware theft headache

While the thieves left the sand-filled trailer unscathed, other freighters have faced real threats from organized criminals in search of high-value...

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Trump removes chairs for TSA agents, saying they ‘must meet fitness for duty requirements’

The White House has given the Office of Personnel Management more power to hire and fire federal workers on the basis of fitness.

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Vaping was supposed to get people off smoking. Now e-cig users are switching to cigarettes to try to quit

“This is not just a trivial misunderstanding. It’s misinformation to the point of significant harm.”

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp quietly purchased 37,000 acres of forests in Sweden—and locals found out when hunters lost leases to use the property

Cladonia Skog AB, a newly registered company owned by Karp, said it would use the land for “forestry and other related activities.”

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‘Unsettling to American partners’: Trump’s offer to sell arms to China is an admission he doesn’t take its security threats seriously, experts warn

While the White House denied there are plans for one, an arms sale would completely undermine U.S. efforts to keep China from becoming a superpower,...

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The $40 trillion U.S. national debt is smaller than Japan’s relative to its economy—but economist warns America is still ‘the world’s largest debtor’

“Japan’s debt dynamics are fundamentally different from those of the United States … Japan is the world’s largest creditor nation. The U.S. is...

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Nearly half of home sellers are now offering incentives to unload their properties—even $20,000 in concessions and all-expenses-paid cruises

“If we were to quantify all these concessions…we would see that home prices are down, and people are getting better deals,” Redfin Chief...

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‘U.S. trade policy is damaging the U.S. auto industry’: Canada’s purchase of American cars hits new low as Trump’s tariffs backfire on U.S. automakers

In one year, the U.S. share of new vehicles in Canada shrunk from 35.4% to 28.4%, new data shows.

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‘I can’t believe it’s already broken’: Samsung customers are complaining to the company over spoiled food after an update bricked AI smart fridges

Dozens of online posts claim a firmware malfunction resulted in a malfunction of the appliances, risking spoiling food.

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China now makes up a record 40% of all global container exports—and it’s a sign Trump’s tariffs meant to punish Chinese firms have fallen flat

“The tariff policies of the last two years have been an unmitigated disaster. They have made exactly what we're talking about worse for the United...

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DOGE’s push to shrink the federal workforce cost the Trump administration $6.7 billion for employees not to work

Elon Musk’s ‘Fork in the Road’ initiative was responsible for most of a 435% increase in administrative leave between 2023 and 2035, a...

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Elon Musk’s DOGE swiped $329 million in humanitarian funding from Nepal, leaving a Gen Z tech revolution to transform the budding country’s economy

After the Trump administration gutted USAID, Nepal’s private sector has stepped up to energize its young workforce and strengthen its financial...

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Lyft CEO David Risher is still a driver for the company: It made him realize being even one minute late could cost the customer their job

Being a driver has carried Risher through his entire career: His first job was delivering the Washington Post. He worked under Jeff Bezos at Amazon...

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The Iran war is minting new one-day millionaires: oil tankers brave enough to sail across the Strait of Hormuz

For the first time, hiring an oil tanker costs more than $1 million per day as rocketing insurance premiums and a consolidating market drive up...

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Americans’ data center fears are coming true—a New Jersey location just leaked 5,000 gallons of diesel

The oil and gas sector isn't the (only) face of oil spills anymore.

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Americans are so concerned about autonomous vehicles that Minneapolis is considering requiring drivers to sit inside Waymos

A proposed ordinance would require human “safety monitors” to be paid at least a minimum wage to sit in these self-driving cars.

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Trump’s tariffs slashed jobs and wage growth. Now companies are funneling their chunk of the $100 billion in refunds to supplement workers’ retirement

Williams Sonoma and TJX plan to give millions of dollars in tariff refunds back to employees through 401(k) payments and bonuses.

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DOGE cancelled a $349,000 grant to replace a museum’s HVAC after ChatGPT flagged it as DEI, court documents show

Elon Musk’s cost-saving agency uploaded more than 1,000 grant proposals into the chatbot, which determined whether or not they pertained to DEI,...

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‘All of us are going to pay’: 30% of Americans are taking out BNPL loans to pay for groceries, and it’s probably going to cost you

A Washington University study found that as more consumers finance their purchases, the cost of goods goes up for all.

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‘They’re likely to get squeezed’: AI slop books are flooding online marketplaces—and it’s coming at the expense of paychecks for human authors

A recent study found thousands of self-published books on Amazon that were at least 50% generated by AI.

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Amazon workers on food stamps have tripled despite its record revenue—and it’s just the latest evidence of the new economy of shrinking labor shares

“These are families that are really barely able to make ends meet,” one policy expert said. “And yet they are working, and they are working a lot.”

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American schools weren’t broken until Silicon Valley used a lie to convince them they were—now reading and math scores are plummeting

Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath warns the U.S.’s $30 billion bet on laptops in schools has made Gen Zers less cognitively capable than their...

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‘The global economy as we know it would come to a sudden halt’: Shipping authorities from 18 countries warn of a ‘two-tier’ system imperiling trade

The Consultative Shipping Group said the emergence of shadow fleets have created a split in maritime systems: “one governed by rules, the other by...

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How Canada decided to hurt its own economy, raise its inflation—and most Canadians approved because they’re so angry at Trump

Oxford economists predict Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s retaliatory tariffs will slow economic growth and raise consumer prices.

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‘Uncharted territory’: The $40 trillion U.S. national debt just got uglier as interest payments rise to $1.25 trillion a year

Last time the net interest payments were this high was 35 years ago. Analysts warn the U.S. is worse off now than it was then.

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Meet the Portland Fire owners, whose family’s swimwear company and short-lived NFL venture laid the groundwork for a $380 million WNBA franchise

“We know that things are going to take time. But we also knew that we were going to surprise some people, and I think we've done that,” Alex...

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Cyclospora outbreaks expose a U.S. food safety system that’s been crumbling for decades—and Musk’s DOGE cuts are ‘only going to make that worse’

“None of this is efficiency,” one food safety expert said of DOGE’s government personnel and research cuts. "This is all whatever the opposite...

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New LA Angels owner Stan Kroenke is quietly America’s largest private landowner, boasting 2.7 million acres and besting Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos

Kroenke’s purchase of nearly 1 million acres of ranchland marks a growing trend of the ultrawealthy snapping up farmland as an alternative asset.

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Once a champion for physical media, Sony is now telling PlayStation customers they don’t actually own the digital video games they paid $70 for

A class action lawsuit filed in June alleges the PlayStation maker did not properly disclose that paying for a downloadable game is different than...

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Starbucks is discontinuing a blending powder for drinks after particles went ‘airborne’ and left baristas coughing and falling ill

The coffee chain said it will no longer use the product as it transitions from its summer to fall menu.

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Women’s professional soccer has a champagne problem: A packed calendar around the World Cup that will test the sustainability of its mega growth

“That schedule was intentionally designed to position the NWSL at the center of one of the biggest years in the history of women's soccer,”...

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The AI boom hasn’t stopped U.S. companies from hiring cheap offshore labor, and overseas call center employment is still skyrocketing

“The technology that was supposed to shrink the industry is fueling its expansion,” said Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok.

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DOJ is turning to an ancient body of law to capture Iranian oil tankers. It’s been so long since the U.S. used it, ‘we’d have to conduct a séance’

The Justice Department is reviving prize law, a centuries-old set of rules that could streamline the process of seizing enemy vessels.

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An 87-year-old American billionaire bought the first Ferrari Luce for $40 million, and the purchase could save him $13 million in taxes

Dr. Herbert A. Wertheim, an optometrist and philanthropist with a $4.8 billion net worth, bought the EV earlier this month. It had a presale estimated...

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Pete Hegseth is worried about the Pentagon’s ‘Soviet-style bureaucracy,’ but the military’s $285 billion maintenance mess is all-American

“You have to question whether the resources are being allocated in a way that provides maximum benefits,” Harvard’s Linda Bilmes told Fortune.

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Over 1 million people clicked LinkedIn’s ‘seems like AI slop’ button as the platform fights to keep ‘dead internet theory’ from becoming reality

One analysis found LinkedIn was “the most AI-saturated platform,” with more than 40% of its long-form posts being flagged as completely AI-generated.

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‘It’s hard to know exactly what the objective of DOGE was’: Former IRS boss warns Elon Musk’s cuts to the tax agency will be felt in years to come

Beginning in February 2025, DOGE slashed more than a quarter of the IRS’s 100,000-person workforce.

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American billionaires are showing off their farmland for elaborate hobbies, but a buying spree among the ultrarich risks pricing farmers out

Mark Zuckerberg and Alexis Ohanian have become amateur yeoman, but other one-percenters may be putting actual farmers at a disadvantage.

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‘This is a money-losing proposition for most of these individuals’: Americans are draining stock portfolios to shovel more money into sports betting

Amid the growing lure of sports betting, Gen Z men in particular face a growing risk of financial disaster, experts say.

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‘Damage from the chaotic tariff regime cannot be refunded’: The $100 billion in refunds have wiped out revenue the import taxes brought in since May

In June, the Trump administration saw a more than $25 billion loss in net customs revenue as a result of tariff refunds outpacing revenue.

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Exclusive: The man leading Trump’s RTO charge for government workers says he filmed a video in front of a blank wall to avoid work-from-home suspicion

“I was in my bedroom,” OPM director Scott Kupor said in an all-hands meeting this week. “I was trying to find something that was not...

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‘Buyers aren’t yet opening their wallets’: AI-generated assets are flooding marketplaces, but consumers are snubbing them for human-made products

In 3D model marketplace CGTrader, AI-generated assets made up one-sixth of newly uploaded models, but just 2.6% of sales.

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Google’s founders didn’t market test Alphabet’s name before launching the now $1.9 trillion juggernaut. Here’s the advice Steve Jobs gave Larry Page

The anniversary of Google's IPO is on Wednesday, and Fortune looked back at the philosophy behind the founders' brainchild.

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Strait of Hormuz chaos has incentivized China to use an alternative trade route: a 3,400 mile frozen Arctic channel dubbed the ‘Ice Silk Road’

Chinese shipping company Sea Legend Line just announced a shipping route through the Arctic, which takes half the time as established shipping routes.

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U.S. strategic reserves are getting so low the drawdown threatens to damage the 60 underground salt caverns storing American oil

“We should be highly concerned about the integrity of the caverns anytime crude inventories drop below 300 million barrels,” one petroleum...

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