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Trump’s public lands became chief after the court rules environment

A federal judge has fired a controversial Trump official who oversees vulnerabilities in public land defenses and ordered that he remain in office without Senate approval. U.S. District Judge Brian Morris ruled that former oil industry attorney William Perry Pendley was illegally running the Bureau of Land Management, which oversees …

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USA bans China’s biggest chipmaker

The U.S. government has approved China’s largest chipmaker, further hurting the country’s semiconductor industry after cutting Huawei from its chip suppliers. On Friday, the U.S. The department’s commerce department told the companies that Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation’s (SMIC) exports posed an “unacceptable risk” of turning to “military end-use”, according to …

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