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Transcript: Trump Press Sec Seethes at Journos amid Sudden Poll Slide
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 12 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is…
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Trump Press Sec Seethes at Journos as Harsh New Poll Shows Him Tanking
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Trump Commerce Sec Makes Bonkers Claim About Building... Bananas?
The Trump administration’s brilliant plan to use tariffs as a means to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. has run into a bit of a…
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Fox News Host Chides Transportation Sec for Not Doing His Job
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Energy Market Authority chairman Richard Lim to step down; ex-perm sec Tan Ching Yee to assume role
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Elon Musk Had Screaming Fight With Treasury Sec. for Pettiest Reason
“I think it’s important to point to her credibility, a number of times, including that in her own written testimony she said she feared…
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Treasury Sec. Desperately Tries to Walk Trump Back From Total Disaster
“Birthright citizenship is the biggest, costliest scam in financial history,” Miller ranted. “An illegal alien could come here nine months…
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Ripple Labs says it settles with US SEC, will pay reduced US$50 million fine
XRP is the fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market value, trailing bitcoin, Ethereum and Tether, the market service CoinMarketCap says…
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Ripple Labs says US SEC ends appeal over crypto oversight
Since US President Donald Trump began his second White House term in January, the SEC has retreated on crypto oversight Ripple Labs said…
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BlackRock resumes talks with companies following SEC guidance
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US SEC unveils task force to start work on crypto regulations
THE US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) new leadership said on Tuesday (Jan 21) it had created a task force to develop a…
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Elon Musk sued by SEC over late 2022 disclosure of Twitter stake
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued Elon Musk on Tuesday, alleging failure to timely disclose that he bought more than 5% of…
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SIA Engineering adds MOM perm sec Ng Chee Khern to board
SIA Engineering has appointed Ng Chee Khern, the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Manpower, as an independent non-executive…
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Hong Leong Asia appoints MOM perm sec Ng Chee Khern as board member
He is the brother of National Trades Union Congress secretary-general Ng Chee Meng INDUSTRIAL conglomerate Hong Leong Asia has appointed…
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Man used Jackie Robinson contracts to steal millions from investors. Then he fled to Russia seeking asylum
The first contract Jackie Robinson signed along with Brooklyn Dodgers president Branch Rickey on Oct. 23, 1945, was an agreement to play…
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Cryptocurrencies tainted by SEC suits surge after Trump victory
THE likely departure of US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair Gary Gensler following Donald Trump’s victory in the…
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US SEC crypto enforcement slated for major rollback under Trump
THE crypto industry poured millions of US dollars into the presidential and congressional races, but its most salient election victory is…