Anchorage’s Klaire Rhodes repeats as Mount Marathon women’s champ
July 5 By Chris Bieri SEWARD — In the past few years, Klaire Rhodes has established herself as a world-class trail runner. The USATF Trail Marathon champ in 2022, Rhodes has excelled at distance races 50K and even longer. In the last two years, the…
US Air Force Suspends SpaceX Rocket Project on Pacific Atoll, Report Says
July 4 By Valerie Volcovici The U.S. Air Force has suspended plans it had proposed with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to test hypersonic rocket cargo deliveries from a remote Pacific atoll, according to a report this week in Stars and Stripes, an independent publication of the…
Dairy Supply Management Could Sour Canada-US Trade Talks
July 3 By Ed White Canada canceled a digital service tax on U.S. technology companies this week in order to preserve trade talks with U.S. President Donald Trump, but another irritant, in agriculture, could be a bigger thorn in the ongoing negotiations. Analysts said ditching…
Trump Says He Will Put 20% Tariff on Vietnam’s Exports
July 2 By Trevor Hunnicutt and Khanh Vu The United States will place a lower-than-promised 20% tariff on many Vietnamese exports, Donald Trump said on Wednesday, cooling tensions with its tenth-biggest trading partner days before the U.S. president could raise levies on most imports. Vietnamese…
China’s Huawei Must Face US Criminal Charges, Judge Rules
July 1 By Jonathan Stempel A U.S. judge on Tuesday rejected Huawei Technologies’ bid to dismiss most of a federal indictment accusing the Chinese telecommunications company of trying to steal technology secrets from U.S. rivals, and misleading banks about its work in Iran. In a…
Russian forces advance and take first village in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, state media say
June 30 By Guy Faulconbridge Russian forces have taken control of the first village in the east-central Ukrainian region of Dnipropetrovsk, Russian state media and war bloggers said on Monday, after Russia took 950 square kms of territory in two months. There was no immediate…
Japan Auto Trade ‘Unfair’, Could Buy More US Oil, Trump Tells Fox News
June 29 By Chang-Ran Kim Japan engages in “unfair” automobile trade with the United States and should increase its imports of U.S. energy resources and other goods to help reduce the U.S. trade deficit, President Donald Trump said in an interview broadcast on Sunday. Tokyo…
Exclusive-Intel’s Top Strategy Officer to Depart This Month
June 28 by Contributor since Intel’s (NASDAQ:INTC) top strategy officer, Safroadu Yeboah-Amankwah, is expected to depart the company this month, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the matter, adding that the chipmaker confirmed the move. Yeboah-Amankwah, who joined Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) as chief strategy officer…
Trump Says US Ending Trade Discussions With Canada Over Digital Tax
June 27 By Reuters President Donald Trump said on Friday the U.S. is immediately ending trade talks with Canada in response to the country’s digital services tax on technology companies, calling it a “direct and blatant attack on our country.” “Based on this egregious Tax,…
exas Firm Aims to Build World’s Largest Data Energy Complex With Nuclear, Gas, Solar
June 26 By Timothy Gardner Fermi America, a Texas company co-founded by former U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, aims to build the largest energy and data complex of its kind powered by nuclear, natural gas and solar, it said on Thursday. Fermi plans to partner…
Trump Signals US May Ease Iran Oil Sanction Enforcement to Help Rebuild Country
June 25 By Jeff Mason President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the U.S. has not given up its maximum pressure on Iran – including restrictions on sales of Iranian oil – but signaled a potential easing in enforcement to help the country rebuild. “They’re…
J.P. Morgan Asset Management Launches Its Largest Active ETF
June 25 By Pritam Biswas and Niket Nishant J.P. Morgan Asset Management launched its largest active exchange-traded fund on Wednesday, anchored by a $2 billion investment from an external client, as the company expands its push into a strategy that is making a strong comeback….