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Iran Considers Tolls and Taxes on Shipping Through Strait of Hormuz

Iranian lawmaker Somayeh Rafiei told the Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA) on Thursday that her colleagues are considering a plan to impose tolls on ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has been blockading by launching wanton attacks on international shipping since the beginning of Operation Epic Fury.

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‘CODE RED:’ Autonomous AI Weapons Are the Nuclear Bomb of the 21st Century

Wynton Hall’s new book Code Red: The Left, The Right, and The Race to Control AI includes a sobering look at the rapidly evolving danger of autonomous weapons, which look to change warfare in the Twenty-First Century as profoundly as nuclear weapons did in the Twentieth — and it will be far more difficult to keep the AI genie bottled than it was to restrain the proliferation of nuclear bombs.

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Wholesale Inventories Fall For Second Straight Month

Stocks at U.S. wholesalers shrank in January, the second consecutive monthly decline, Commerce Department data showed Thursday. Inventories at merchant wholesalers were down 0.5 percent compared with the prior month, according to the seasonally adjusted figures. In December, inventories contracted

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Fed Holds Rates Steady

The Federal Reserve left its short-term interest rate target unchanged on Wednesday. The decision to hold the benchmark federal-funds rate steady in a range between 3.5 percent and 3.75 percent was approved on an 11 to 1 vote. Fed governor

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