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FEMA to Deny Grants to States and Cities That Boycott Israeli Companies  The New York Times US links $1.9 billion in state disaster funds to Israel boycott stance  Reuters States that boycott Israeli companies will lose disaster relief funds, DHS says  Axios Trump Administration Issues New Warning to States Over Israel Boycotts  Newsweek Washington conditions disaster preparedness funds on rejection of Israel boycotts  The Times …

Facebook Tweet Email Link In 2013, Motorola tried to claw its way into a bigger share of a smartphone market dominated by Apple and Samsung with four words: Made in the USA. “There was a segment of customers that said, ‘Hey, if you produce products in the United States, I’m more likely to consider them,” Dennis Woodside, the former CEO …

Exclusive | China Is Choking Supply of Critical Minerals to Western Defense Companies  The Wall Street Journal The U.S. Critical Minerals Dilemma: What to Know  Council on Foreign Relations Exclusive: Trump administration to expand price support for US rare earths projects, sources say  Reuters China Strong-Armed Japan Over Rare Earths. It’s a Lesson for the U.S.  The Wall Street Journal Trump Team Outlines Push …

Harm or Help? Why Companies Are Battling Tariffs Meant to Benefit Them.  The New York Times Markets slump on tariffs and jobs data as Trump fires labor bureau statistics chief  CNN American businesses are running out of ways to avoid tariff pain  The Economist Trump voter and Montana Knife Co. founder feels tariff pain: His $515,000 sharpener from Germany is set to cost …

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. A mouse jiggler — as the name would suggest — is a device that is designed to “jiggle” a mouse. It’s designed to give a computer mouse a quick jiggle without a user’s presence. This begs the question: why would you need such a …

Microsoft’s much-maligned Recall feature, which automatically screenshots everything you do on your Copilot+ PC to create a “photographic memory,” is not making many fans across the app developer community. According to a report from The Verge, ad blocker AdGuard and privacy-minded browser Brave have decided to block Recall and its prying eyes. Brave announced its plans to block Recall in …

Donald Trump’s AI summit in Washington this week was a fanfare-filled event catered to the tech elite. The president took the stage on Wednesday evening, as the song God Bless the USA piped over the loudspeakers, and then he decreed: “America must once again be a country where innovators are rewarded with a green light, not strangled with red tape, …

US Companies, Consumers Are Paying for Trump’s Tariffs, Not Foreign Firms  Bloomberg.com Tariffs haven’t raised prices significantly yet. That’s about to change.  vox.com Trump Tariffs Could Drive Up The Cost Of These Goods After August 1 Deadline  Forbes Companies are passing rising tariff costs on to U.S. consumers, real-time pricing data show  The Globe and Mail Tariffs hit U.S. companies hard, but businesses absorb …

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he won’t touch the federal subsidies Elon Musk’s companies are enjoying because he wants Musk to continue to prosper. Musk, however, begs to differ. “The ‘subsidies’ he’s talking about simply do not exist,” Musk wrote in an X post on the same day. The Trump administration has already scrapped or slapped expiry dates …

Christina Chapman, 50, an Arizona woman who pleaded guilty to charges connected to the global North Korean IT workers scheme, has been sentenced to 8.5 years in federal prison. U.S. District Court Judge Randolph D. Moss also ordered Chapman to forfeit proceeds of $284,000 that was to be paid to the North Koreans. She was also ordered to pay a …