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(The Center Square) – As the Middle East conflict continues and energy stability remains uncertain in the Persian Gulf, energy security remains steady in the U.S., fueled by the Gulf of America states of Texas and Louisiana.The Texas oil and natural gas industry continues to break production records and Texas and Louisiana lead the U.S. in liquified natural gas exports, providing a steady supply of energy resources at home and abroad.As the conflict escalated, oil futures trading on Wall Street fluctuated.On Sunday, the U.S. benchmark, West Texas Intermediate, saw oil futures increase to $78.50 a barrel (b) after the U.S.…

President Donald Trump on Saturday announced that the U.S. military had struck three nuclear facilities in Iran. The escalation followed months of fruitless negotiations between Tehran and Washington over Iran’s nuclear program. Trump described the strikes as a one-off, saying, shortly after dropping massive bombs on the country, that “Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace.” The reality, however, is that Trump has likely locked the United States into long-term military action and regime change in Iran. Although Trump announced on Monday that he had brokered a cease-fire between Iran and Israel, he has already accused…

(The Center Square) – Ohio’s leading business group, along with city leaders and clean energy companies, want federal energy provisions enacted in 2022 to remain as Congress continues to negotiate President Donald Trump’s budget reconcilliation bill.Those leaders say clean energy tax credits have produced nearly a half-million jobs nationwide and resulted in $10.6 billion in local investment in Ohio. Almost 15,000 jobs have been created in Ohio alone.Those business leaders used a news conference Tuesday to encourage Ohio Republican Sen. Jon Husted to keep the credits alive.“I think every area of the state will be impacted,” said Tony Long of the…

(The Center Square) – The “bioindustrial revolution” is coming. Pennsylvania lawmakers want the commonwealth to be at its forefront.Gov. Josh Shapiro has made the biotech industry a core focus of his work in the governor’s office. Other lawmakers in the state are now doubling down on that commitment.Last week, U.S. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-West Chester, joined the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology on its Pennsylvania stop for the Biotech Across America Tour. The Air Force veteran, engineer and congresswoman hosted a variety of stakeholders from schools to private companies to policy groups to discuss Pennsylvania’s role in the future…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends a roundtable discussion at the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris on June 11, 2025.Sarah Meyssonnier | ReutersNvidia CEO Jensen Huang sold 100,000 shares of the chipmaker’s stock on Friday and Monday, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.The sales are worth nearly $15 million at Tuesday’s opening price.The transactions are the first sale in Huang’s plan to sell as many as 6 million shares of Nvidia through the end of 2025. It’s a plan that was announced in March, and…

(The Center Square) – Despite market uncertainty in the energy market, the upstream sector of the Texas oil and natural gas industry added jobs in May.The industry also contributed to Texas continuing to break its own employment records again last month, The Center Square reported.More than 208,200 were employed in the upstream sector in May, an increase of 2,200 jobs from April, according to the latest employment data. The increase represents 600 jobs in the services sector and 1,600 jobs in oil and gas extraction, according to an analysis of the data from the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners…

(The Center Square) – University of Michigan Health is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for after an employee claimed her civil rights were violated.The Office for Civil Rights at HHS announced the investigation last Friday.“OCR is committed to enforcing federal conscience laws in health care,” said Paula M. Stannard, OCR director. “Health care workers should be able to practice both their professions and their faith.”The federal inquiry is looking into allegations that a medical professional was terminated for exercising her “federally protected rights of conscience”—specifically, her right to refuse to use patient pronouns that conflicted…

Dario Amodei, Anthropic CEO, speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 21st, 2025. Gerry Miller | CNBCAnthropic’s use of books to train its artificial intelligence model Claude was “fair use” and “transformative,” a federal judge ruled late on Monday.Amazon-backed Anthropic’s AI training did not violate the authors’ copyrights since the large language models “have not reproduced to the public a given work’s creative elements, nor even one author’s identifiable expressive style,” wrote U.S. District Judge William Alsup.”The purpose and character of using copyrighted works to train LLMs to generate new text was quintessentially…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to clear the way for the deportation of several immigrants to South Sudan, a war-ravaged country where they have no ties.The motion comes a day after the justices allowed immigration officials to restart quick deportations to third countries, halting a lower-court order that had allowed migrants to challenge removals to countries where they could be in danger.But Judge Brian Murphy in Boston found the deportation flight diverted to Djibouti in May couldn’t immediately resume its path to South Sudan. While he acknowledged the Supreme Court decision pausing…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A plan to sell more than 2 million acres of federal lands has been ruled out of Republicans’ big tax and spending cut bill after the Senate parliamentarian determined the proposal by Senate Energy Chairman Mike Lee would violate the chamber’s rules. Lee, a Utah Republican, has proposed selling public lands in the West to states or other entities for use as housing or infrastructure. The plan would revive a longtime ambition of Western conservatives to cede lands to local control after a similar proposal failed in the House earlier this year.The proposal received a mixed reception…