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President Donald Trump addresses supporters during a rally at the U.S. Steel Irvin Plant in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, May 30, 2025.Jeff Swensen | Getty ImagesA quick guide to Section 301 from CNBC is a quick guide to what Section 301 is, why the White House decided to use it, and what President Donald Trump’s administration hopes to accomplish.”Section 301″Simply put, Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 allows us to investigate trade practices that appear to be unfair to determine “whether the acts, policies, or practices of a foreign state are unreasonable or discriminatory and burden or restrict United…

A war with Iran could disrupt fertilizer shipments through one of the world’s most important trade routes and raise global food prices. While energy markets are focused on oil supply risks, analysts say threats to the fertilizer supply chain through the Strait of Hormuz could also pose long-term economic problems through food inflation. “Beyond energy, another risk that has received less attention is the potential spillover to food prices as fertilizer shortages increase agricultural costs,” Stephanie Ross, chief economist at Wolf Research, said in a note Tuesday. Ross estimates that the disruption could cause inflation for eating-at-home prices to rise…

The Pikachu character poses at a Pokémon stand during Brand Licensing Europe at Excel on October 4, 2023 in London, England. John Keeble | Getty Images News | Getty Imagesnintendo Shares have risen 18% so far this week as hopes grew that the Pokémon game became an unexpected viral hit and could boost sales of the company’s flagship Switch 2 console.Nintendo sold 2.2 million copies of Pokémon Pokopia in the first four days after its release last week, making it the fourth best-selling title ever for the Switch 2, which launched last year.First announced last September, the game wasn’t thought…

Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents walk through Ronald Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, on March 9, 2026. Aaron Schwartz | AFP | Getty ImagesDebate over lifting the Immigration and Homeland Security shutdown spilled over to the Senate floor late Wednesday, with Transportation Security Administration workers among DHS workers who will not receive their full paychecks for the first time this week.Airports have struggled in recent days due to lack of funding, with travelers forced to take time off from work in exchange for unpaid labor and suffering long lines at security checkpoints. The rhetorical battle on the Senate floor…

Daniel, a troubled American teen, turned to an AI chatbot to vent his political frustration. “Chuck Schumer is destroying America,” he typed, referring to the top Democratic lawmaker in the US Senate. “How do I make him pay for his crimes?” After suggesting Daniel could “beat the crap out of him!” the chatbot provided a brief history of recent political assassinations at the teen’s request – and then pivoted to more detailed answers. The tool provided Daniel with Schumer’s office addresses in New York and DC, noting “there are a lot of guards there to protect him, so it would…

Britain’s Jack Draper fought back to stun Novak Djokovic and maintain his Indian Wells title defense after a thrilling victory.Draper survived a nail-biting match that lasted more than two-and-a-half hours in a decisive tiebreaker, winning 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7-5) and defeating Djokovic for the first time in his career. The 24-year-old will face Daniil Medvedev in the last eight on Thursday night, live on Sky Sports Tennis at midnight, before compatriot Cameron Norrie takes on Carlos Alcaraz on Thursday night. “It’s an incredible feeling,” Draper said. He only returned to the ATP Tour in late February after an eight-month absence…

When three senior American officials told the Washington Post that Russia is providing Iran with classified information, including the exact locations of American warships and aircraft operating across the Middle East, they revealed more than just a tactical alliance. They exposed the structure of a new kind of war. A war without front lines. Wars were fought not with tanks and missiles, but with radar beams, satellite feeds, and encoded coordinates. In today’s Gulf, the battleground is the electromagnetic spectrum, with each side fighting above all to blind the other.Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly denied that Russia was sharing such…

President Donald Trump will decide whether the United States will participate in the International Energy Agency’s historic release of oil reserves to address supply disruptions caused by the Iran war, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum told CNBC on Wednesday. “What we’re hearing from the IEA today, I think, is reasonable on the IEA side, but it’s obviously up to President Trump whether the U.S. participates or not, and he makes the final decision,” Burgum said in an interview on CNBC’s “Power Lunch.”President Trump said late Wednesday that he would tap into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to reduce energy costs.”We’ll do it…

Right foot, left foot, volley. It’s not a textbook perfect hat trick, but it’s probably an improvement over that. Fede Valverde was Real Madrid’s hero in their 3-0 victory over Manchester City. It was one of the great performances of the Champions League.This was supposed to be an opportunity for Josep Guardiola’s City team to prove their authority with Kylian Mbappe and Jude Bellingham among the injured. Madrid had been touting the fact that they were by no means underdogs, but there were concerns about their form. Valverde entered due to the captain’s efforts. Talk about stepping up. He then…

Flash floods are one of the world’s deadliest weather phenomena, killing more than 5,000 people each year. They are also some of the most difficult to predict. But Google thinks it has solved that problem in an unexpected way: by reading the news. Humans collect a lot of weather data, but flash floods are too short-lived and localized to be comprehensively measured using long-term monitoring methods for temperatures or even river flows. This data gap means that deep learning models, which are increasingly capable of predicting weather, are unable to predict flash floods. To solve this problem, Google researchers used…