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1. Trump Dangles Cash Payments to Assuage Affordability Concerns

   Wed, 17 Dec 2025 10:01:56 -0000

   With tariffs unpopular and prices still high, the White House has teased the promise of tariff rebates and large tax refunds next year.

2. What Trump’s Embrace of Crypto Has Unleashed

   Wed, 17 Dec 2025 10:00:17 -0000

   A boundary-pushing array of new crypto ventures have reached the stock market, enticing investors and leading to more risk taking.

3. Australia, After a Mass Shooting During Hanukkah, Looks for a Path Forward

   Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:13:24 -0000

   The Bondi Beach massacre has people fearing more anti-Jewish violence — and an Islamophobic backlash. But there are reasons to think stability will prevail.

4. Trump Orders Blockade of Some Oil Tankers to and From Venezuela

   Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:40:59 -0000

   The move is an escalation of military operations and a pressure campaign against Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s leader. But its scope and economic impact are not clear.

5. Trump Revised Chevron’s Venezuela Deal. Maduro’s Oil Trader Profited.

   Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:58:04 -0000

   A firm controlled by a businessman tied to a seized tanker carrying Venezuelan oil has sold millions of barrels from a Chevron-operated oil field.

6. Next Fed Chair in ‘No-Win Scenario’ as Selection Process Draws to a Close

   Wed, 17 Dec 2025 10:02:02 -0000

   The person picked to replace Jerome H. Powell will be thrust into a credibility problem that will be difficult to escape.

7. What Is an American?

   Wed, 17 Dec 2025 10:00:23 -0000

   If the post-Trump G.O.P. makes the same mistake the Democrats did with their identitarian fringe, Republicans will meet a similar fate.