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By Stephen Nellis(Reuters) – U.S. export controls on sending advanced computing chips to China are not meant to hold back China’s economy or technological development, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during an interview with National Public Radio on Friday.Since 2022, U.S. officials have imposed sweeping controls on which computing…

A Vietnamese-based company will build its first North American solar panel manufacturing plant in eastern North Carolina, creating over 900 jobs, officials announced on Friday.Boviet Solar along with Gov. Roy Cooper and other government officials revealed at an East Carolina University news conference the company’s plans to invest almost $300 million in a 1 million square-foot advanced manufacturing facility in Greenville.Founded in 2013, Boviet makes solar panels and photovoltaic cells that are already used in…

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The anti-Israel tent encampment at Columbia University is being led by of a cohort of controversial student leaders — some of whom express solidarity with Hamas, and saying “Zionists don’t deserve to live.” These students are the ones negotiating directly with leaders of the Ivy League university — holding campus…

Politics

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Jurors will now have a three-day weekend to think about what they heard during the first full week of testimony in the historic Donald Trump hush money trial. David Pecker finally stepped down from the witness stand after more than 10 hours of testimony across four days, where the former…

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Massachusetts Senate candidate John Deaton isn’t letting the busy campaign trail prevent him from fighting the Securities and Exchange Commission on behalf of the crypto industry. FOX Business was first to report that the crypto-enthusiast and lawyer, now turned political candidate, filed an amicus brief in the Southern District of…

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