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Good morning, and welcome to Hark News. Here's what the world got up to while you slept. First, the weather in New York. A high of 77 and a low of 66, with cloudy skies.
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Treasury bond buybacks fail to calm markets
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The Treasury Department doubled its long-term bond buyback program this week, hoping to push borrowing costs lower. The move worked for a day before yields snapped right back up, leaving Wall Street skeptical about the strategy's durability and raising fresh fears about dollar debasement.
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Walmart posts six-year-low sales growth
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Walmart reported a beat-and-raise on earnings but saw its slowest U.S. sales growth in nearly six years, sending shares tumbling nearly ten percent. Executives pointed to softening consumer sentiment, rising gas prices, and the drying up of spring tax refunds as key headwinds.
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Trump exempts foreign beef from tariffs to curb prices
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President Trump announced a ninety-day exemption allowing up to three hundred thousand metric tons of imported ground beef into the country without new tariffs. He claimed exporters committed to selling the meat at twenty-five percent below market rates, drawing quick backlash from domestic ranchers who worry about herd rebuilding.
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Ukraine faces severe air defense shortages after Kyiv strikes
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A massive Russian missile barrage hit Kyiv over the weekend, killing at least fifteen people and damaging residential blocks and a children’s hospital. Ukrainian officials warn that Western-supplied air defense interceptors have dropped threefold compared to last year, leaving civilians exposed to renewed barrages.
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Anthropic prepares mega-IPO to match SpaceX scale
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Anthropic is moving quickly toward a public offering expected to rival or surpass SpaceX's record-setting seventy-five billion dollar debut. The company is finalizing credit facilities and considering super-voting shares to keep founding control intact as it navigates intense investor demand for AI exposure.
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Supreme Court allows White House ballroom construction to proceed
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Chief Justice John Roberts granted a temporary stay blocking a lower court ruling that would have halted above-ground construction on the White House ballroom project.
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China's export boom triggers Europe's own trade reckoning
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European manufacturers are facing historic pressure as Chinese exports flood markets, driving record trade deficits and threatening German industrial hubs. Officials are debating whether to follow the American playbook by erecting broader barriers, though traditional reluctance to deploy sweeping tariffs remains a major hurdle.
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FTC urged to probe AI companies for destroying books
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A coalition of civil society groups is pushing the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether dominant AI firms are buying and physically destroying books to train their models.
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CIA retirement system swamped amid historic staff exodus
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The spy agency is grappling with an unprecedented wave of resignations and retirements driven by broader federal workforce reductions. Internal messages reveal that former operatives are now facing months-long delays just to receive their first pension checks as the retirement administration buckles under the volume.
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DOJ settles TikTok child privacy allegations for four hundred million dollars
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The Department of Justice has reached a four hundred million dollar settlement with TikTok and its parent company ByteDance to resolve allegations that the platform violated children's online privacy laws.
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Tesla recalls three million vehicles in China over door handles
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Tesla is recalling roughly three million cars across China due to safety concerns involving the exterior door handles. The recall highlights the operational challenges the automaker continues to face in one of its most strategically important international markets despite strong global production numbers.
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Cryptocurrency markets rallied sharply this week as roughly two
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Cryptocurrency markets rallied sharply this week as roughly two point five billion dollars in Bitcoin short positions were liquidated. The bounce was further fueled by Treasury intervention signals reviving debasement trades and legislative pushes for clearer digital asset rules.
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NBA ownership shake-up sees Lakers and Timberwolves change hands
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Marc Lore agreed to sell his controlling stake in the Minnesota Timberwolves and Lynx to billionaire Marc Stad for a four point five billion dollar enterprise value.
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FDA upgrades frozen blueberry recall to highest risk level
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The Food and Drug Administration elevated its recall of frozen GreenWise blueberries sold at Publix to Class One, the most severe health warning, citing a multistate E.
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FBI raids home of former Rep. Eric Swalwell in assault probe
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Federal agents searched the Washington District home of former California congressman Eric Swalwell and seized electronic devices as part of a civil rights investigation tied to sexual assault allegations.
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AT&T shifts heavy AI workloads to cheaper open-source models
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Telecommunications giant AT&T is routing a growing share of internal coding and analysis tasks toward open-source models to slash expenses. Early reports suggest smart model routing has cut costs by up to ninety percent on certain applications, signaling a broader industry shift away from expensive proprietary APIs.
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Evergrande founder sentenced to life in prison over collapse
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A Chinese court handed a life sentence to Hui Ka Yan, the billionaire founder of property developer Evergrande, for financial fraud related to the company's catastrophic default.
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Waymo unveils custom silicon chip for driverless car processing
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Alphabet's self-driving unit revealed a proprietary computer chip designed to crunch raw sensor data from cameras and lidar in milliseconds. The compact hardware squeezes immense computing power into a vehicle trunk, tackling the same bottleneck that humanoid robotics developers must solve to operate in unpredictable environments.
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Friday trivia
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And before you go, a little extra from Morning Brew. You encounter a wise man sitting in a cave. In front of him are two coins: a five-cent coin and a large gold coin worth $10,000. He offers you a challenge: You may make one statement. If your statement is true, he will give you one of the coins, but he won't tell you which. If your statement is false, you receive nothing. What statement can you make to guarantee that you win the $10,000 gold coin? The answer: "You won't give me the five-cent coin." (There may be other correct answers.)
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That's all for today
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And that's your world for today. The full stories and the links are waiting in the app. Tap through, bookmark what matters, and share what's worth sharing. And if you want to see what stuck, take today's quiz in the app: five quick questions. I'll see you again tomorrow morning. Until then, go well.
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