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Ford Says Electric Vehicle Losses Will Continue for Three More Years

Ford Motor reported a big loss for 2025 because of its troubled electric vehicle division, which it has significantly scaled back.

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An F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck, which the company stopped producing last year, after federal tax credits for electric vehicles ended.
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Lutnick Acknowledges Traveling to Epstein’s Island

The commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, acknowledged at a Senate hearing that he and his family visited Jeffrey Epstein on his private island.

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Howard Lutnick, the secretary of commerce, testifying before the Senate Appropriations Committee at the Capitol on Tuesday.
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F.D.A. Refuses to Review Moderna Flu Vaccine

The vaccine maker said the U.S. regulator rejected its request to seek approval for a new product using mRNA technology, which Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has sharply criticized.

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Moderna was a pioneer in using mRNA technology, first with the Covid vaccine. Its flu shot was being developed for people 50 and older.
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Britney Spears Sells Her Song Catalog

The pop hitmaker, who hasn’t released a new album in 10 years, sold the rights to her music to Primary Wave.

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Britney Spears has sold tens of millions of albums and scored five No. 1 hits on Billboard’s Hot 100 singles chart.
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Before Trump Blasted U.S.-Canada Bridge, Owner of Competing Span Lobbied Administration

A Detroit billionaire met with Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, hours before President Trump said he would block the opening of a new bridge connecting Detroit to Canada, officials said.

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President Trump said on Monday he would block the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge, currently under construction to link Detroit with Windsor, Ontario.
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The Left Needs a Sharper A.I. Politics

The future may put progressive theories of work and human nature to the test.

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YouTube Argues It Isn’t Social Media in Landmark Tech Addiction Trial

The app said in opening statements that it was more of an entertainment platform. The lawsuit claims social media companies design products that cause personal injury.

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Neal Mohan, left, the chief executive of YouTube, in 2024. The company’s lawyers argued in court on Tuesday that YouTube was an entertainment platform, not a social media platform.
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Georgia Ballot Inquiry Originated With Election Denier in Trump White House

A newly unsealed affidavit showed that a criminal investigation into the 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., relied heavily on claims about ballots that have been widely debunked.

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Members of the F.B.I. seized 2020 ballots and other materials from an election center in Fulton County, Ga., late last month.
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Climate Change Is Erased From Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence for Judges

After Republican criticism, a group that offers professional resources to judges withdrew a climate science chapter from its Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence.

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J.B. McCuskey, the West Virginia attorney general, in Washington last month. He led the effort against the climate chapter in the judges’ handbook.
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Congress Quietly Used Funding Law to Try to Rein In Trump on Spending

Dozens of measures sprinkled throughout the recently enacted spending package seek to tie the Trump administration’s hands on funding, an act of quiet bipartisan resistance to efforts to trample congressional power.

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“These bills provide literally hundreds upon hundreds of specific funding levels and directives that this administration must now, by law, follow,” Senator Patty Murray of Washington, the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, said.
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Michigan Judge Rebukes Justice Department’s Effort to Obtain Voter Data

The ruling from a Trump-appointed federal judge is the third in recent weeks to reject the administration’s demand for voters’ personal data from nearly every state.

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A polling location in Detroit. The decisions offer an early indication of how the Justice Department’s nationwide quest to essentially establish a national voting database may be running into significant headwinds from the judiciary.
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Mamdani Hires Groundbreaking Computer Scientist as Chief Tech Officer

Lisa Gelobter, whose work helped shape the modern web, was also on the launch team at Hulu.

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Lisa Gelobter, in 2018, who is credited with helping create the technology behind GIFs, will be charged with improving New Yorkers’ digital access to essential services.
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NLRB Dismisses Case Brought by Fired SpaceX Employees

The National Labor Relations Board, having accused the company of unfair retaliation in 2024, now says it has no jurisdiction over Elon Musk’s space company.

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Eight SpaceX employees were fired soon after asking the company to distance itself from comments made by Elon Musk, including one in which he made light of accusations of harassment directed at him.
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