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China Is Getting Much of What It Wants From the U.S., Including Chips

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By:Lily Kuo
12 December 2025 at 00:01
For China, President Trump’s moves to loosen chip controls, soften U.S. rhetoric and stay silent on tensions with Japan amount to a rare string of strategic gains.

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President Trump and Xi Jinping, China’s leader, after their meeting in Busan, South Korea, in October. Mr. Trump’s latest moves extended the conciliatory posture he struck at this summit.
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Trump Moves to Stop States From Regulating AI With a New Executive Order

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By:Cecilia Kang
11 December 2025 at 23:56
The order would create one federal regulatory framework for artificial intelligence, President Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.

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President Trump, who has said it’s important for America to dominate in the race to develop A.I., has said that the various state A.I. laws have created a confusing patchwork of regulations.

Trump Panel Abruptly Postpones Release of FEMA Overhaul Recommendations

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By:Scott Dance
11 December 2025 at 18:06
The group’s report had been expected to provide a road map for change after months of upheaval at the agency.

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Talk of a FEMA overhaul comes as disasters are becoming more frequent and costly as a result of climate change.

U.S. Helped to Weaken Report at U.N. Environment Talks, Participants Say

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By:Eric Niiler
11 December 2025 at 13:54
American officials joined Russia, Saudi Arabia and Iran in objecting to language on fossils fuels, biodiversity and plastics in a report that was three years in the making.

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The opening session of the 7th United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday.

Trump’s Interest in Warner Bros. Deal Weighs On Justice Department

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By:David McCabe
10 December 2025 at 14:20
President Trump’s unusual decision to involve himself in the government’s review of the deal puts pressure on his antitrust chief.

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Gail Slater is in charge of the Department of Justice’s antitrust division, which is expected to handle the government’s review of a Warner Bros. deal.

Gregg Phillips, a Proponent of Election Conspiracy Theories, to Join FEMA

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By:Scott Dance
10 December 2025 at 15:54
Gregg Phillips, who spread unsubstantiated claims of mass voter fraud in the 2016 election, will join the agency’s leadership, the Trump administration confirmed.

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Gregg Phillips, right, onstage in 2022 with Catherine Engelbrecht, with whom he has led True the Vote, a conservative nonprofit group.

FDA Expands Covid Vaccine Inquiry to Adult Deaths

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By:Christina Jewett
10 December 2025 at 13:56
The agency claimed that 10 children’s deaths were linked to the shots, although it did not release evidence to support the assertions.

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Trump’s Nvidia Chip Deal Reverses Decades of Technology Restrictions

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By:David E. Sanger
9 December 2025 at 20:21
President Trump’s decision to allow Nvidia to sell its chips to China has raised questions about whether he is prioritizing short-term economic gain over long-term American security interests.

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President Trump with Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, at the White House in April.

Trump Eases Limits on Nvidia Exports to China at ‘Critical Moment’

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By:Meaghan Tobin
9 December 2025 at 12:08
President Trump said Nvidia can export some chips. But years of U.S. restrictions have propelled China to make everything it needs for advanced A.I.

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Nvidia has argued that blocking access to its chips has only spurred Chinese companies to improve faster.

Trump Clears Sale of More Powerful Nvidia A.I. Chips to China

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By:Tripp Mickle and Ana Swanson
8 December 2025 at 17:30
Approval for the H200 chip followed months of haggling between tech industry backers and defense hawks.

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The Trump administration wants to encourage Chinese companies to use Nvidia’s H200 chip while limiting sales of the company’s newest chips, known as Blackwell.

Who Is Andrew Ferguson, the FTC Chairman Who Tilted the Agency to Trump?

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By:David McCabe
9 December 2025 at 12:53
Andrew Ferguson has used the Federal Trade Commission’s consumer protection mandate to investigate issues important to President Trump and his base.

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Andrew Ferguson, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, during a House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government hearing in May.

The Married Scientists Torn Apart by a Covid Bioweapon Theory

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By:Katie J.M. Baker
8 December 2025 at 19:51
In 2020, a Chinese virologist fled to the United States, aided by allies of President Trump who sought to promote her unproven theories about the origins of Covid-19. Her husband still can’t find her.

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Dr. Li-Meng Yan spoke in 2021 at a summit in Anchorage, Alaska, on early outpatient treatment for the Covid-19 virus.

His Group Made World-Class Measurements of Atomic Elements

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By:Katrina Miller
4 December 2025 at 09:30
Yuri Ralchenko led one of the oldest teams at the National Institute for Standards and Technology. The fate of some experiments hangs in the air.

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His Group Made World-Class Measurements of Atomic Elements

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By:Katrina Miller
4 December 2025 at 09:30
Yuri Ralchenko led one of the oldest teams at the National Institute for Standards and Technology. The fate of some experiments hangs in the air.

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Trump Expected to Significantly Weaken Fuel Economy Rules

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By:Lisa Friedman and Maxine Joselow
2 December 2025 at 18:58
Executives from top automakers were invited to attend the announcement at the White House on Wednesday.

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The Biden-era auto emissions rules have significantly reduced the planet-warming greenhouse gases from transportation, which is the single largest source of carbon pollution in the United States.

After Trump’s MRI Claim, His Doctor’s Memo Offers Little Clarity

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By:Gina Kolata
2 December 2025 at 14:16
While the president said he had an M.R.I. exam, a physician’s memo released by the White House was less specific.

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The statement, by Dr. Sean P. Barbabella, said the tests on President Trump’s cardiovascular system and abdominal region showed the president “remains in excellent overall health.”

FEMA Won’t Reinstate Suspended Workers Who Signed Letter Criticizing Trump

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By:Maxine Joselow
1 December 2025 at 16:54
Employees suspended in the summer after signing a letter critical of the president were told they could return to work. But the reinstatement was short-lived.

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A FEMA search and rescue worker in Swannanoa, N.C., after Hurricane Helene last year.

Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War

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By:Lisa Friedman and Steven Lee Myers
1 December 2025 at 08:27
Shifting politics, intensive lobbying and surging disinformation online have undermined international efforts to respond to the threat.

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Oil-rich countries, including the U.S., are downplaying scientific consensus that the burning of fossil fuels is dangerously heating the planet.

F.D.A. Seeks More Oversight of Vaccine Trials and Approvals

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By:Christina Jewett
29 November 2025 at 11:24
The agency’s top vaccine regulator proposed broad changes, claiming that a new review linked 10 children’s deaths to the Covid vaccine. But public health experts questioned the findings, wanting to examine the data.

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Dr. Vinay Prasad, the F.D.A.’s top vaccine official, suggested in a memo that the deaths were related to vaccine-related myocarditis but did not offer data to support his conclusions.

E.P.A. Delays Requirements to Cut Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas

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By:Lisa Friedman and Maxine Joselow
26 November 2025 at 17:52
Oil and gas firms were supposed to start reducing methane, a powerful driver of climate change. The agency is giving them more time and may cancel the requirement.

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A gas flare at an oil facility in Midland, Texas.

Trump Vowed Fewer Regulations and Lots More Oil. He’s Delivered on One.

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By:Lisa Friedman
26 November 2025 at 05:00
The president’s energy strategy is projected to generate more pollution, but so far production has not risen significantly and price drops have been modest, analysts say.

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Since President Trump took office, oil production is up, but largely because of improved efficiency, and it has not translated into more jobs for either the industry or the overall economy.

U.S. Announces Negotiated Prices for 15 Drugs Under Medicare

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By:Rebecca Robbins
26 November 2025 at 13:15
The Trump administration said that had the new prices been in effect last year, Medicare would have saved $12 billion, which would have reduced its spending on those drugs by 44 percent.

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The 15 drugs include widely used inhalers, such as Breo Ellipta, and treatments for cancer, diabetes and depression.

The Forgotten Nuclear Weapon Tests That Trump May Seek to Revive

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By:William J. Broad
24 November 2025 at 15:19
Hydronuclear experiments, barred globally since the 1990s, may lie behind President Trump’s call last month for the United States to resume its testing of nuclear bombs.

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Technicians in an underground test site in Nevada secured the door before execution of the 2021 Red Sage-Nightshade experiment, a subcritical nuclear test.

X Displays Users’ Locations, Fueling Scrutiny Over Political Accounts

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By:Yan Zhuang
24 November 2025 at 03:49
Online sleuths quickly found that some accounts posting about U.S. politics, including those in support of the MAGA movement, appeared not to be based in the United States.

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X announced that it had begun listing additional information about an account’s origin on Saturday.

Eli Lilly, Drug Maker of Zepbound and Mounjaro, Reaches $1 Trillion in Value

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By:Rebecca Robbins
21 November 2025 at 16:25
The 150-year-old drugmaker is the first company in health care to hit the milestone.

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Eli Lilly, based in Indianapolis, has surged in large part because of the company’s success in commanding the GLP-1 weight loss drug market.

China Offers Panda Totes, but No New Commitments, at Climate Talks

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By:Lisa Friedman and Somini Sengupta
21 November 2025 at 11:25
The United States has retreated on climate. China, the only superpower at COP30 and the world leader in clean energy, is not filling the void.

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The China pavilion of the COP30 conference in Belém, Brazil, last week.

Energy Department Reorganization Reflects Shift Away From Renewable Energy

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By:Brad Plumer
20 November 2025 at 17:38
The reorganization reflects the ongoing shift in the federal government’s energy priorities: less renewable energy, more fossil fuels.

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The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations no longer appear in an organizational chart posted by the Energy Department on Tuesday.

Family Affair: Commerce Secretary’s Sons Cash In on A.I. Frenzy

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By:Eric Lipton · Michael Rothfeld · David Yaffe-Bellany and Ana Swanson
20 November 2025 at 05:00
Howard Lutnick is helping push data center projects. His family companies are profiting from them.

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A mammoth data center is rising in Amarillo, Texas. Firms controlled by the Lutnick family have helped finance it, banking millions in fees in the process.

Trump Moves to Weaken the Endangered Species Act

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By:Maxine Joselow and Catrin Einhorn
19 November 2025 at 16:15
Four proposed rules could make it easier to drill for oil or harvest timber in areas where endangered species live.

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An endangered red wolf in the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge near Manns Harbor, N.C., in 2023.

How Trump and Nvidia’s C.E.O. Became Partners on the International Stage

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By:Tripp Mickle and Ana Swanson
19 November 2025 at 05:01
Over the last 10 months, President Trump has become close with Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, as the company’s chips have become a tool in trade and peace talks.

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In April, Jensen Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, announced at a White House news conference that Nvidia and its suppliers would invest $500 billion in U.S. manufacturing.

Thousands March for Climate Action as COP30 Talks Enter Second Week

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By:Lisa Friedman · Brad Plumer and Max Bearak
17 November 2025 at 05:02
As the talks continue, some countries are pushing for a detailed “road map” for a global transition away from oil, gas and coal.

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A demonstration near the U.N. climate summit in Belém, Brazil, on Saturday. The atmosphere has been a marked contrast to the past three summits that were held in countries where governments restricted public protests.

RFK Jr. Walks a Tightrope on Trump Deal for Obesity Drugs

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By:Dani Blum and Rebecca Robbins
14 November 2025 at 10:25
The weight loss medicines are proving to be a test case for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, in straddling divisions between his supporters and the president.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, appearing in the Oval Office on Nov. 6 with other health officials, the chief executives of Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly and others.

Data Centers in Space + A.I. Policy on the Right + A Gemini History Mystery

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By:Kevin Roose · Casey Newton · Rachel Cohn · Whitney Jones · Jen Poyant · Chris Wood · Dan Powell · Elisheba Ittoop and Marion Lozano
14 November 2025 at 07:00
“As you may have noticed, it is not easy to build data centers here on Earth.”

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The Global Climate Leadership Vacuum

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By:Claire Brown
19 November 2025 at 14:15
The United States is largely absent from the United Nations climate negotiations in Brazil. So who is stepping up?

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A lobby of the COP30 United Nations climate summit in Belém, Brazil.

The Luxury Electric Vehicle Is in Trouble

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By:Neal E. Boudette
13 November 2025 at 05:01
Sales of expensive battery-powered cars like the Ford F-150 Lightning have stalled, forcing automakers to slow production and offer more affordable vehicles.

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Ford Motor has stopped making its F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck, which starts at $55,000, and won’t say when or whether production will restart.

Missing at U.N.’s Climate Meeting: American Executives

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By:Ivan Penn and David Gelles
12 November 2025 at 05:02
Many business leaders are skipping the annual United Nations climate summit in Belém, Brazil, or are attending events in other cities.

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Officials from around the world are attending the U.N. climate summit in Belém, Brazil, this week, but U.S. government and business leaders are not among them.

Newsom in the Spotlight at the Climate Conference That Trump Decided to Skip

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By:Somini Sengupta
12 November 2025 at 00:06
The California governor painted the president as a threat to American competitiveness by letting China dominate the renewable energy industry.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom of California at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, on Tuesday.

Trump Is Said to Propose Opening California Coast to Oil Drilling

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By:Maxine Joselow and Lisa Friedman
13 November 2025 at 02:57
Gov. Gavin Newsom, a chief critic of the president and an opponent of oil exploration in the Pacific, called the proposal “dead on arrival.”

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An oil rig off the coast of Huntington Beach, Calif. The plan would also require new oil and gas leasing in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.
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