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New Jersey Train Engineers Go On Strike, Halting Service in New York City Area
By Oliver Mantyk NEW YORK CITY—New Jersey Transit train engineers went on strike on May 16, halting service to 350,000 riders in the New Jersey and New York area. The strike began at 12 a.m. on Friday after an agreement was not reached in the latest round of negotiations on Thursday. “We presented them the…
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Deere Tops Earnings Estimates, Reaffirms Focus on US Manufacturing
By Panos Mourdoukoutas John Deere’s revenue and earnings dropped in the second quarter of fiscal year 2025 due to a global decline in sales, but beat expectations. The company reaffirmed its guidance for the rest of the fiscal year, continuing to embrace local American manufacturing. On May 15, the Moline, Illinois-based agricultural and construction equipment…
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US Issues Huawei Chips Warning, Signaling New AI Diffusion Rule
By Catherine Yang The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) on May 13 warned entities against using Huawei chips that were developed in violation of U.S. export controls, while announcing that new AI chip trade rules are to come. In January, the outgoing Biden administration finalized an AI Diffusion rule governing…
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Trump Strikes $244 Billion in Deals With Qatar, Including ‘Historic’ Boeing Jet Sale
By Jacob Burg and Emel Akan DOHA, Qatar—President Donald Trump announced on May 14 more than $243.5 billion in economic deals between the United States and Qatar, including a $96 billion agreement for Boeing to sell up to 210 jets to Qatar Airways. The White House stated that the agreement with Qatar is projected to…
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Trump Pitches America’s ‘Golden Age’ to Wealthy Gulf Investors
By Emel Akan and Andrew Moran RIYADH, Saudi Arabia—When President Donald Trump arrived in the Saudi capital on May 13, one of his first actions was to address the Gulf’s business elite, promoting the United States as a prime destination for investment amid a new era shaped by his “America First” agenda. Trump made it…
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Markets Rally After US, China Announce 90-day Tariff Reductions
By Andrew Moran U.S. stocks rallied on May 12 after the United States and China agreed to temporary tariff reductions. The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average soared by 1,160 points, or 2.8 percent. The index has erased most of 2025’s losses and is down by less than 1 percent. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index is…
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The Rise and Fall of Synthetic Food Dyes
By Marina Zhang In 1856, 18-year-old chemist William Henry Perkin was experimenting with coal tar-derived compounds in a crude laboratory in his attic. His teacher, August Wilhelm von Hofmann, had published a hypothesis on how it might be possible to make a prized malaria drug using chemicals from coal tar, and as his assistant, Perkin…
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EPA Targets Engine Start-Stop Systems in Cars
By Tom Ozimek The Trump administration is taking aim at automatic engine start-stop systems—technology installed in millions of U.S. vehicles to reduce fuel use and emissions—with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin signaling plans to roll back incentives for the feature that he says drivers despise. “Start/stop technology: where your car dies at every…
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