White House denies report US is considering a diesel export ban reuters.com/world/us/white-h…

A toaster is a wedding gift. A private-island party paid for by a Putin-connected oligarch is something else. Republicans nearly wore out the subpoena machine investigating Hunter Biden’s foreign relationships. We should not unplug it now. ‘Trust us’ was not enough then, and it is not enough now.

US House backs resolution curbing Trump Iran war powers reuters.com/world/us/us-hous…

NEW: According to a letter from the State Dept. to Sen. Markey, seen by @Reuters, the Trump admin. is close to sending for congressional review a nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia—which won’t require Riyadh to sign the Additional Protocol for intrusive IAEA inspections or adhere to the “gold standard” of no enrichment and reprocessing, to which the UAE committed. This is a dangerous, further unraveling of decades of U.S. policy against the spread of nuclear weapons technologies. Iran should be the cautionary tale of bending nonproliferation standards in the Middle East, @POTUS @VP @SecRubio @SecretaryWright. A bilateral safeguards agreement doesn’t solve the poor precedent this sets or the race for nuclear fuel production tech. it will incite. reuters.com/world/middle-eas…

Constellation says grid operator told company Three Mile Island can't connect until 2031 @lailakearney

Havana rides a bicycle boom as US chokes off fuel to Cuba reuters.com/business/energy/…

Exclusive: Cuban security forces exit Venezuela as US pressure mounts reuters.com/world/americas/c…

Fox News is talking about the administration "dropping the ball" on messaging about the killing of Pretti in Minnesota. Trey Gowdy just now: “We certainly should not be labeling him as a domestic terrorist who was going to execute cops. There is no evidence to support that.”

At a press conf today @SecretaryWright told me he "strongly suspects" these Energy Dept-hosted supercomputers would also help researchers model #climate change: US Department of Energy forms $1 billion supercomputer and AI partnership with AMD reuters.com/business/energy/…

Moscow is preparing to raise taxes and cut spending as it tries to maintain high defence expenditure with Russia's economy creaking under the weight of financing the more than three-year war in Ukraine, officials and economists say. reuters.com/markets/asia/rus…

What are the Gulf 'trillions' that Trump says will boost the US economy? reut.rs/4k10HWI reut.rs/4k10HWI

US would assess #nuclear waste, plutonium for reactor fuel under draft order reuters.com/business/energy/…

A five-year-old, bomb-detecting rat has smashed the world record for most landmines found. trib.al/2Hov3hm

Today: - Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on alcohol & loneliness - @ReuvenBlau on 'problem doctors' in NY prisons, - @TimoGard & @AyshaBagchi on Trump choosing Pam Bondi for AG & Chris Wright for Energy Sec. - YOUR 'Dry January' calls Live at 10 on 93.9 FM, AM820 or @wnyc.org

.@FBI gently tries to explain the drone frenzy in @WhiteHouse call yesterday

Former SpaceX engineer seeks to help end US dearth of special #uranium fuel ... by @TimoGard reuters.com/technology/space…

Sunday will mark the first anniversary of the killing of @Reuters reporter Issam Abdallah by an Israeli tank crew that fired two shells in quick succession while the journalists were filming cross-border shelling, according to UN & Reuters investigations. reuters.com/world/middle-eas…

The email exchanges, which take place between Oct. 11-14 and involve senior White House, State Dept & Pentagon officials, including Biden’s top Mideast aide Brett McGurk, provide rare insight into the thinking of the U.S. government in the early days of the Gaza war 2/X

US regulator says Michigan nuclear plant, the one with $1.52 billion in U.S. financing, needs repairs before any restart reuters.com/business/energy/…

Reuters: 17 Sep 2024 03:00:00 PM - EXCLUSIVE: US TO SEEK 6 MILLION BARRELS OF OIL FOR EMERGENCY RESERVE, TAKING ADVANTAGE OF RELATIVELY LOW PRICES, SOURCE SAYS