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Today — 10 December 2025Main stream

Chip Company Plotted to Send Technology to China, Ex-C.E.O. Says

10 December 2025 at 13:00
The former chief executive of Nexperia, a Dutch chipmaker, said Dutch officials had known for years that the company’s Chinese owner sought to move its technology to China.

© Fabian Bimmer/Reuters

On a production line of the Dutch semiconductor company Nexperia in Hamburg, Germany, last year. Dutch officials seized the company in September.

Kathryn Garcia Is Named New Head of the Port Authority

Ms. Garcia, who ran for mayor of New York in 2021 after serving as the city’s sanitation commissioner, would succeed Rick Cotton, who is retiring.

© Hans Pennink/Associated Press

Kathryn Gardia said she expected to start in the new role early next year.
Yesterday — 9 December 2025Main stream

Judge Suggests Lindsey Halligan, Prosecutor on Comey and James Cases, Should Resign

9 December 2025 at 23:11
Lindsey Halligan’s indictments against James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, and Letitia James, the attorney general of New York, were dismissed last month over Ms. Halligan’s appointment.

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Lindsey Halligan at the White House in March.

Supreme Court Struggles With How to Insulate the Federal Reserve From Politics

9 December 2025 at 18:04
The president seemed poised for a big Supreme Court win letting him remove officials without cause. But the justices appeared to struggle with how to insulate the Federal Reserve from politics.

© Caroline Gutman for The New York Times

President Trump has mused about trying to fire Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, but he has not followed through. Indeed, no president has sought to remove a member of the Fed board without cause.

A Key Question for the Supreme Court: What About the Fed?

9 December 2025 at 18:04
The president seemed poised for a big Supreme Court win letting him remove officials without cause. But the justices appeared to struggle with how to insulate the Federal Reserve from politics.

© Caroline Gutman for The New York Times

President Trump has mused about trying to fire Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, but he has not followed through. Indeed, no president has sought to remove a member of the Fed board without cause.

Top N.Y. Cannabis Official Resigns as Major Investigation Is Dropped

9 December 2025 at 11:23
Gov. Kathy Hochul demanded the resignation of the head of New York’s Office of Cannabis Management following the withdrawal of a case against a Long Island-based company.

© Johnny Milano for The New York Times

Omnium headquarters in Hauppauge, N.Y., earlier this year. It is unclear why a case against the company was withdrawn.

Planes, Trade and Nuclear Energy: Supreme Court Weighs Fate of Independent Regulators

9 December 2025 at 03:11
The court heard arguments Monday in a case that could determine the independence of agencies like the National Transportation Safety Board and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

© Kenny Holston/The New York Times

The Supreme Court will consider whether President Trump has the power to fire a leader of the Federal Trade Commission, a decision that will have profound consequences for dozens of bipartisan commissions and boards created by Congress.

Todd Combs Leaves Berkshire Hathaway for JPMorgan Chase as Buffett Nears Retirement

8 December 2025 at 23:33
The departure of the senior stock picker was one of several leadership changes ahead of Mr. Buffett’s planned departure as chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway.

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Todd Combs joined Berkshire Hathaway in 2010 to become one of the managers of the trillion-dollar conglomerate’s vast stock portfolio.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Presidential Power Gets Tested Before Supreme Court After Long Conservative Project to Shrink Agencies

7 December 2025 at 22:25
President Trump has repeatedly ousted leaders of independent agencies despite federal laws meant to shield those regulators from politics.

© Eric Lee/The New York Times

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and other conservatives on the Supreme Court have embraced the so-called unitary executive theory, which holds that the Constitution vests all executive power in the president and that he must be able to control everything the executive branch does.
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