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Democrats ask Raimondo to step up enforcement on CHIPS funding

WASHINGTON — A group of Democrats are raising concerns as to whether companies that received federal funding for semiconductors used…

Iran votes for its new president amid economic strife, crackdowns and regional war

Iran is voting for its next president Friday in a snap election following the unexpected death of former President Ebrahim…

Supreme Court curbs SEC powers to enforce securities laws

WASHINGTON — Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor accused the Supreme Court’s conservative majority of seizing power for itself as it curbs…

Crypto industry super PAC is 33-2 in primaries, with $100 million for House, Senate races

WASHINGTON — A super PAC bankrolled by top cryptocurrency companies notched several wins Tuesday night in congressional primaries, the latest…

Fugitive ex-CEO of investment firm arrested on securities, wire fraud charges

A former investment company CEO who previously appeared as a paid contributor to CNBC was arrested on fraud charges after…

New AI deepfake porn bill would require Big Tech to police and remove images

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are scrambling to address the boom in deepfake artificial intelligence pornographic images, which have…

CEOs at Trump meeting: Ex-president ‘meandering’ and ‘doesn’t know what he’s talking about’

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump failed to impress everyone in a room full of top CEOs Thursday at the Business Roundtable’s…

Tax fraud: DC settles Bitcoin billionaire Michael Saylor case for $40 million

Billionaire bitcoin investor Michael Saylor and the company he founded, MicroStrategy, will pay $40 million to settle a tax fraud…

Dinesh D’Souza election fraud film, book ‘2000 Mules’ pulled after defamation suit

WASHINGTON — The conservative gadfly Dinesh D’Souza’s film and book “2000 Mules,” which pushes false conspiracies about voter fraud in…

Meet the leaders of the Trump era’s new conservative economic populism

This reported column is Part Two of Eamon Javers’ two-part series on the new, conservative economic populism gaining ground among…