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How Trump Is Transforming the U.S. Government’s Environmental Role

The E.P.A. said this week it would revoke its own ability to fight climate change. It’s the latest move in an extraordinary pivot away from science-based protections.

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A smoggy street in Los Angeles in 1954.
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Trump Taps Climate Skeptics to Attack Science on Global Warming

The agency asked five climate skeptics to write a report criticizing the consensus on global warming. Scientists are pointing out its errors.

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The Department of Energy in Washington, D.C.
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What Happened to the MAGA Instant Pot?

As its private-equity owner fought antitrust allegations, the countertop cooker suddenly embraced the president’s politics, trying the new playbook of lobbying through flattery.

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In June, a lobbyist for Instant Pot announced a new line of devices emblazoned with President Trump’s slogan “Make America Great Again.”
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Trump to Visit Federal Reserve As Campaign Against Powell Intensifies

The administration has repeatedly criticized Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the central bank, for his handling of the economy and the cost of renovations at the institution’s headquarters.
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Trump Visits Federal Reserve as Campaign Against Powell Intensifies

The administration has repeatedly criticized Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the central bank, for his handling of the economy and the cost of work on the institution’s headquarters.

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President Trump visited the Federal Reserve on Thursday with Jerome H. Powell, second from right, the central bank’s chair.
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Trump’s A.I. Challenge: Focus on Weapon Concerns or Woke-ism?

In the Biden era, the government feared AI models would guide the spread of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons. President Trump signed an order on “Preventing Woke A.I. in the Federal Government.”

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President Trump’s executive action bars the U.S. government from buying, using or promoting A.I. models that contradict the views of the president or his supporters.
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A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at Risk

People across the United States have endured rushed or premature attempts to remove their organs. Some were gasping, crying or showing other signs of life.

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Misty Hawkins’s parents have not touched the bedroom of their daughter, who had a lifelong cognitive disability.
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What to Know About the Three Crypto Regulation Bills in Congress

The House this week took up a trio of bills that would establish a federal framework for regulating the cryptocurrency industry. One of the measures cleared Congress and is on its way to enactment.

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A sign advertises a Bitcoin A.T.M. at a gas station this week near Pasadena, Calif.
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Trump Has Penned Letter To Fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell

The president waved a copy of a draft letter firing Jerome H. Powell at a meeting in the Oval Office with House Republicans. It remains to be seen whether he follows through with his threat.

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President Donald J. Trump and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell at the White House in 2017.
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China Puts New Restrictions on E.V. Battery Manufacturing Technology

Beijing will now require government licenses for any effort to transfer abroad the technologies crucial for producing inexpensive electric cars.

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CATL, a Chinese company that is the world’s largest producer of electric vehicle batteries, displayed at the Shanghai auto show in April a lithium-ion battery that can be recharged in five minutes.
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Air India Crash Findings Prompt Inspections of Boeing Fuel Switches

Airlines in India, Singapore and South Korea were inspecting fuel control switches on their Boeing jets.

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Workers removing the airplane’s tail from the wreckage of the Air India crash, in Ahmedabad, India, last month.
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Rare Earths Mining in Myanmar Is Polluting Thailand’s Kok River

Unregulated activity led by Chinese enterprises in conflict-ravaged Myanmar is creating an environmental calamity in neighboring Thailand.

Levels of arsenic and other toxic metals have spiked to dangerous levels in Thai waterways like the Kok River, seen here in June.
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