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Dan Goldman Asks NYPD to Bust Feds if They Step out of Line

Rep. Daniel Goldman (left) faces off with Bill Joyce, deputy director of the New York ICE field office, in the lobby of 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan, June 18, 2025.

Rep. Dan Goldman is calling on the NYPD to arrest and even charge federal agents working in the city if they break New York’s laws.  In a letter sent to NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch and first reported here, the Democratic congressmember representing parts of Brooklyn and lower Manhattan points to recent reporting in ProPublica […]

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How China gained control over global rare earth supply through state support, domestic industry consolidation, acquiring US companies like Magnequench, and more (Jon Emont/Wall Street Journal)

Jon Emont / Wall Street Journal:
How China gained control over global rare earth supply through state support, domestic industry consolidation, acquiring US companies like Magnequench, and more  —  Beijing used bare-knuckle tactics in a multidecade effort to consolidate control over supplies

A profile of Katherine Boyle, an a16z partner and a friend to JD Vance, as Silicon Valley increasingly adopts her views, including embracing defense tech (Julia Black/New York Times)

Julia Black / New York Times:
A profile of Katherine Boyle, an a16z partner and a friend to JD Vance, as Silicon Valley increasingly adopts her views, including embracing defense tech  —  Katherine Boyle, an influential venture capitalist who is a friend of the vice president, thinks the country's path forward involves …

AWS says "the underlying DNS issue has been fully mitigated" and most "operations are succeeding normally now" after a major US-EAST-1 outage from 3:11AM ET (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
AWS says “the underlying DNS issue has been fully mitigated” and most “operations are succeeding normally now” after a major US-EAST-1 outage from 3:11AM ET  —  The cause of the AWS outage is currently unclear. … Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently experiencing …

Blackstone President Jonathan Gray says AI risk is "top of our list" when evaluating deals; sources: the firm backed down from buying companies vulnerable to AI (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Blackstone President Jonathan Gray says AI risk is “top of our list” when evaluating deals; sources: the firm backed down from buying companies vulnerable to AI  —  Jonathan Gray says private capital group has put risks from the technology ‘top of our list’ when evaluating deals