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‘Freedom Fuel’ Touts Cheap Gas. A Lawsuit Says the Dealer Didn’t Pay for It.

A lawsuit claims that a New Jersey-based company failed to pay for nearly $4 million worth of gas, some of which was sold to gas stations promoted by President Trump.

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A Freedom Fuel Network gas station sold gas for $3.57 per gallon in Dresher, Pa., outside Philadelphia, where the cost of a gallon of gas reached $3.99 that week.
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Long Lines for Gas in Iran Show War and U.S. Blockade Squeezing Supply

The government is struggling to meet a shortfall in fuel and is wary that higher prices at the pump could stir unrest.

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A gas station in Tehran on Tuesday. Officials are urging people to clamp down on fuel use as they deal with a shortfall.
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High Debt and Rising Prices Catch Up to Trump, as Midterms Near

Par : Tony Romm
To win in 2024, the president promised an economic course correction. Almost two years later, his agenda has made that fight even harder.

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A series of concerning economic snapshots for President Trump have been released over the past week.
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For Trump, the Iran War Is Stuck Between Combat and Genuine Peace

The war has deteriorated over the past six months into Mr. Trump’s own version of a “forever war,” with no clear goals and no end in sight.

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President Trump has been unable so far to broker an agreement to end the war on satisfactory terms.
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Trump Officials Propose Charging More Than $100,000 for Skilled Worker Visas

The proposal comes after the Trump administration ran into legal challenges in its attempt to attach a similar fee to the H-1B visa last year.

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The Trump administration has called for an overhaul of the H-1B visa program, saying it has unfairly allowed companies to sideline Americans and hire foreign workers at lower pay.
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The Price of Bread

War, climate shocks and trade disputes are pounding the world’s breadbaskets and pushing the global food system into dangerous territory.

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A combine harvester in Seeluebbe, Germany, this month.
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What Canadian Goods Will Take Trump’s 50% Tariffs? Some Pretty Strange Items.

Buoys, dog muzzles, capes, national flags and “base metal statuettes” from Canada are now more expensive for U.S. shoppers.

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The World’s Breadbaskets Are Getting Pounded by War, Weather and Trade Spats

Bad harvests and attacks on trade passages threaten to drive food prices higher.

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A combine harvester threshing wheat in a field in Seeluebbe, Germany, this month. Yields in the country are down for several crops, including wheat, because of drought and heat.
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How the Iran War Made Africa’s Richest Man Even Richer

Africans have turned to one of their own for fuel as the world’s supplies run low. But they are not the only ones with the continent’s richest man on speed dial.

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Aliko Dangote at his refinery office in Lagos, Nigeria, in January.
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