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A federal court on Monday blocked the Biden administration’s decision to halt approval of new liquefied natural gas export facilities, dealing another legal blow to the president’s ambitious climate agenda.In a decision issued Monday night, U.S. District Judge James D. Cain Jr. ruled in favor of Louisiana and 15 other Republican-led states that had challenged the measure. The judge, who was appointed by Donald Trump, wrote that the pause “is completely devoid of reason or logic and may be the epiphany of ideocracy.” [sic].”The decision is the latest example of how the judiciary is increasingly restricting President Biden’s climate goals,…

GRAND ISLAND NY (WIVB) — Grand Island Town Supervisor Pete Marston is trying to find the person responsible for vandalizing his business sign, which he says happened Thursday night. “It’s 100 percent because I’m a politician. I’m an elected supervisor,” he said. “There’s 100 signs here, they picked mine for a reason.” Someone spray painted the message “Drain the Swamp.” “It’s ironic because I’m a Republican,” he said. Marston spent hours cleaning his sign after it was vandalized. He has owned his business, Marston Power Equipment, on Grand Island Boulevard, for more than 20 years. He said this has never…

Trae Patton/NBC After the two-hour episode of “America’s Got Talent” Season 19, “Auditions 4” on June 11, we asked you, “What was your favorite act?” Among the contestants who performed for the judges was a team of acrobats. Hypers Kids Africafather and son rap duo Flewnt and Inkabeetrick shot world champion Gunshots with Venomscientist Emotional Brainwavesdancing robot Daniel Simusinger-songwriter Stephanie Raineytour artists DaksDominoesguitarist Maya Neelakantanroller skating group CPA Gironachicken act mentalist Jo De Rijckand family singing group L6. Based on your votes in our Auditions 4 poll, it was a close race between a sentimental original song and the spirit…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s ruling Monday in former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case makes it all but certain that the Republican will not face trial in Washington ahead of the November election.The Supreme Court did not dismiss — as Trump had wanted — the indictment alleging he illegally schemed to cling to power after he lost to President Joe Biden. But the ruling still amounts to a major victory for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, whose legal strategy has focused on delaying the proceedings until after the election.The timing of the trial matters because if Trump…

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled for the first time that former presidents have some immunity from prosecution, extending the delay in the Washington criminal case against Donald Trump on charges he plotted to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss and all but ending prospects the former president could be tried before the November election.In a historic 6-3 ruling, the justices returned Trump’s case to the trial court to determine what is left of special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump. The outcome means additional delay before Trump could face trial.Trump celebrated a “BIG WIN” on X. President Joe Biden…

Analysis The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that judges should no longer defer to government agencies’ interpretations of ambiguous laws — a decision that could impact some of the biggest cases against tech companies. This deference, known as Chevron deference, dates back to 1984, when the court ruled in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency could define ambiguous terms in government legislation, as long as the agency tried to enforce the law as Congress intended. Last week, the Supreme Court overturned that 40-year-old precedent with a decision covering two cases: Loper Bright Enterprises v.…

Investors shouldn’t turn a blind eye to the hot AI chipmaker’s less obvious problems. Nvidia’s (NVDA 0.61%) The company’s stock has gained more than 600% over the past two years. Much of that gain has come from growth in the artificial intelligence (AI) market, which has boosted its sales of data center GPUs for processing complex AI tasks. The market’s insatiable demand for its data center chips continues to outstrip available supply, and analysts expect Nvidia’s revenue to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 45% from fiscal 2024 to fiscal 2027 (which ends in January 2027). They…

Nvidia’s (NASDAQ: NVDA) The company’s stock has gained more than 600% over the past two years. Much of that gain has come from growth in the artificial intelligence (AI) market, which has boosted its sales of data center GPUs for processing complex AI tasks.The market’s insatiable demand for its data center chips continues to outstrip available supply, and analysts expect Nvidia’s revenue to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 45% from fiscal 2024 to fiscal 2027 (which ends in January 2027). They expect its earnings per share (EPS) to grow at a CAGR of 51%.Image source: Nvidia.Even…

(Bloomberg) — Its stock price resembles that of an emerging-market penny stock: a 1,200% rise punctuated by two crashes of more than 40% — all in less than nine months.Bloomberg’s most read articlesBut PT Barito Renewables Energy is Indonesia’s largest company by market capitalization: an $85 billion geothermal power producer controlled by one of the country’s richest tycoons.Barito’s wild swings – the most extreme among global companies valued at $50 billion or more based on 30-day volatility – have confounded professional analysts, fueled feverish trading among retail investors and now challenged regulators’ attempts to bring more order to an increasingly…

Anthropic is launching a program to fund the development of new types of benchmarks capable of evaluating the performance and impact of AI models, including generative models like its own Claude. Unveiled Monday, Anthropic’s program will award grants to third-party organizations that can, as the company explains in a blog post, “effectively measure the advanced capabilities of AI models.” Interested parties can submit applications, which will be evaluated on a rolling basis. “Our investment in these assessments aims to improve the entire field of AI safety, providing valuable tools that benefit the entire ecosystem,” Anthropic wrote on its official blog.…