Geneva Nuclear Showdown: Trump's State of the Union Ultimatum Sets the Stage for Critical U.S.-Iran Talks Thursday
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Geneva Nuclear Showdown: Trump's State of the Union Ultimatum Sets the Stage for Critical U.S.-Iran Talks Thursday

GENEVA — The third round of indirect nuclear negotiations between the United States and Iran is scheduled to convene in Switzerland this Thursday, hours after President Donald Trump used a nearly two-hour State of the Union address to draw a firm red line on Iran's nuclear ambitions and lay

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Trump's 'Golden Age' Declaration Meets Economic Skepticism as Democrats Stage Historic State of the Union Walkout
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Trump's 'Golden Age' Declaration Meets Economic Skepticism as Democrats Stage Historic State of the Union Walkout

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump delivered the longest State of the Union address on record Tuesday evening, speaking for one hour and 48 minutes before a joint session of Congress to proclaim that the United States had entered a "golden age," even as fresh polling data showed his approval

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DeepSeek's Banned Blackwell Chips: How China's Top AI Firm Allegedly Beat US Export Controls and What It Means for Nvidia
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DeepSeek's Banned Blackwell Chips: How China's Top AI Firm Allegedly Beat US Export Controls and What It Means for Nvidia

WASHINGTON — A senior Trump administration official has told reporters that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek trained its forthcoming artificial intelligence model on Nvidia's most advanced commercially available processor, the Blackwell chip, despite comprehensive US export controls that explicitly bar those semiconductors from shipment to China. The disclosure, which surfaced

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Trump's 'Golden Age' Declaration Meets Economic Skepticism as Democrats Stage Historic State of the Union Walkout
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DeepSeek's Banned Blackwell Chips: How China's Top AI Firm Allegedly Beat US Export Controls and What It Means for Nvidia
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DeepSeek's Banned Blackwell Chips: How China's Top AI Firm Allegedly Beat US Export Controls and What It Means for Nvidia

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Iran's Nuclear Program Was "Obliterated" — Then Wasn't: How Trump's Own Claims Are Undermining the Case for a New Strike
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Iran's Nuclear Program Was "Obliterated" — Then Wasn't: How Trump's Own Claims Are Undermining the Case for a New Strike

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South Korea's KOSPI Strikes Another Record High as Trump's Tariff Warnings and AI Fears Send Asia-Pacific Markets in Opposite Directions

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South Korea's KOSPI Strikes Another Record High as Trump's Tariff Warnings and AI Fears Send Asia-Pacific Markets in Opposite Directions

U.S. Ambassador Huckabee Sparks Regional Firestorm Claiming Israel Holds Biblical Right to the Entire Middle East

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U.S. Ambassador Huckabee Sparks Regional Firestorm Claiming Israel Holds Biblical Right to the Entire Middle East

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Geneva Nuclear Showdown: Trump's State of the Union Ultimatum Sets the Stage for Critical U.S.-Iran Talks Thursday
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Geneva Nuclear Showdown: Trump's State of the Union Ultimatum Sets the Stage for Critical U.S.-Iran Talks Thursday

GENEVA — The third round of indirect nuclear negotiations between the United States and Iran is scheduled to convene in Switzerland this Thursday, hours after President Donald Trump used a nearly two-hour State of the Union address to draw a firm red line on Iran's nuclear ambitions and lay

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Geneva Nuclear Showdown: Trump's State of the Union Ultimatum Sets the Stage for Critical U.S.-Iran Talks Thursday
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Geneva Nuclear Showdown: Trump's State of the Union Ultimatum Sets the Stage for Critical U.S.-Iran Talks Thursday

GENEVA — The third round of indirect nuclear negotiations between the United States and Iran is scheduled to convene in Switzerland this Thursday, hours after President Donald Trump used a nearly two-hour State of the Union address to draw a firm red line on Iran's nuclear ambitions and lay

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5 Min
By: Nick Ravenshade
DeepSeek's Banned Blackwell Chips: How China's Top AI Firm Allegedly Beat US Export Controls and What It Means for Nvidia
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DeepSeek's Banned Blackwell Chips: How China's Top AI Firm Allegedly Beat US Export Controls and What It Means for Nvidia

WASHINGTON — A senior Trump administration official has told reporters that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek trained its forthcoming artificial intelligence model on Nvidia's most advanced commercially available processor, the Blackwell chip, despite comprehensive US export controls that explicitly bar those semiconductors from shipment to China. The disclosure, which surfaced

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By: Nick Ravenshade
Iran's Nuclear Program Was "Obliterated" — Then Wasn't: How Trump's Own Claims Are Undermining the Case for a New Strike
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Iran's Nuclear Program Was "Obliterated" — Then Wasn't: How Trump's Own Claims Are Undermining the Case for a New Strike

WASHINGTON — As the Trump administration signals it may launch a second military campaign against Iran's nuclear infrastructure, a widening contradiction sits at the center of its public case: for eight consecutive months, President Donald Trump declared that those capabilities had been thoroughly and permanently destroyed. The June 2025

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U.S. Ambassador Huckabee Sparks Regional Firestorm Claiming Israel Holds Biblical Right to the Entire Middle East
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U.S. Ambassador Huckabee Sparks Regional Firestorm Claiming Israel Holds Biblical Right to the Entire Middle East

WASHINGTON — The United States ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, ignited a sweeping diplomatic backlash across the Arab world on Friday after telling conservative commentator Tucker Carlson that it would be "fine" if Israel were to claim and control much of the Middle East, a position he rooted in

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Geneva Nuclear Showdown: Trump's State of the Union Ultimatum Sets the Stage for Critical U.S.-Iran Talks Thursday
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Trump's 'Golden Age' Declaration Meets Economic Skepticism as Democrats Stage Historic State of the Union Walkout
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Trump's 'Golden Age' Declaration Meets Economic Skepticism as Democrats Stage Historic State of the Union Walkout

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DeepSeek's Banned Blackwell Chips: How China's Top AI Firm Allegedly Beat US Export Controls and What It Means for Nvidia
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DeepSeek's Banned Blackwell Chips: How China's Top AI Firm Allegedly Beat US Export Controls and What It Means for Nvidia

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Iran's Nuclear Program Was "Obliterated" — Then Wasn't: How Trump's Own Claims Are Undermining the Case for a New Strike
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Bitcoin Crashes to $62,964 as Trade War Escalation and Iran Threat Drain Risk Appetite
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Bitcoin Crashes to $62,964 as Trade War Escalation and Iran Threat Drain Risk Appetite

NEW YORK — Bitcoin extended a punishing multi-day retreat on Tuesday, February 24, 2026, tumbling more than 5% to breach the $63,000 threshold as traders confronted a simultaneous escalation of U.S. trade policy and growing fears of military confrontation in the Middle East. The world's largest cryptocurrency

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South Korea's KOSPI Strikes Another Record High as Trump's Tariff Warnings and AI Fears Send Asia-Pacific Markets in Opposite Directions
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South Korea's KOSPI Strikes Another Record High as Trump's Tariff Warnings and AI Fears Send Asia-Pacific Markets in Opposite Directions

HONG KONG — Asia-Pacific equity markets closed a fractured trading session on Tuesday, February 24, 2026, with semiconductor-driven gains in South Korea and Taiwan pulling sharply against weakness in Hong Kong and a broader technology sector gripped by artificial-intelligence disruption fears, as fresh tariff warnings from U.S. President Donald Trump

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Paramount Skydance Clears US Antitrust Waiting Period in $108 Billion Hostile Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
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Paramount Skydance Clears US Antitrust Waiting Period in $108 Billion Hostile Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery

NEW YORK — The Hart-Scott-Rodino antitrust waiting period governing Paramount Skydance Corporation's $108.4 billion hostile all-cash bid for Warner Bros. Discovery expired at 11:59 p.m. Eastern on February 19, 2026, the company disclosed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Friday, removing a statutory barrier

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Private Credit Alarm and Iran Strike Threat Push Wall Street Financials Into Risk-Off Retreat
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Private Credit Alarm and Iran Strike Threat Push Wall Street Financials Into Risk-Off Retreat

NEW YORK — U.S. equity markets closed sharply lower on Thursday as two converging forces unsettled investor confidence: a major alternative-asset manager disclosed a sweeping $1.4 billion loan sale coupled with a fundamental restructuring of retail investor access to one of its private credit funds, while President Donald Trump

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump delivered the longest State of the Union address on record Tuesday evening, speaking for one hour and 48 minutes before a joint session of Congress to proclaim that the United States had entered a "golden age," even as fresh polling data showed his approval

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