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Trump says US to take control of 65bn barrels of Venezuelan oil
The president says the countries’ joint venture will lower petrol prices for Americans
Letter: What Baumol’s disease tells us about the productivity puzzle
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Kevin Warsh spoke — what did we learn? With Torsten Slok
The Fed chair has a plan to tackle inflation
Letter: Imagining what Kublai Khan said to Marco Polo
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Letter: Poignant memories of a Chagall show
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Letter: America’s census and its role in the constitution
From Gail L Johnson, Ewing, NJ, US
Letter: Homer Simpson on mind-body dualism
From Austen Lynch, Garstang, Lancashire, UK
Letter: Our rivers need more than well-run water companies
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Letter: Founding Fathers and English Georgian summers
From Robert Fletcher, Ingatestone, Essex, UK
Letter: Musk Sr’s ‘state of Britain’ lament inspires this reader
From Estelle Phillips, Nature Writer and Performance Poet, Broad Chalke, Wiltshire, UK
Letter: Textile artist’s shout-out for Bayeux’s embroiderers
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Walmart to pay $50mn to settle opioid lawsuit with US justice department
Retailer resolves case with DoJ over allegations it fuelled Americans’ addiction to painkillers
Guggenheim affiliate buys up debt linked to its asset management arm
Loan has been closely watched as a proxy for Mark Walter’s private-held investment firm
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George Parker talks to Jim Pickard and Stephen Bush
Senior German politicians call for ban on parts of far-right AfD
Boris Pistorius and Cem Özdemir say top court should consider outlawing Alternative for Germany’s most radical flank
Bayeux deal could pave way for Parthenon marbles loan, says British Museum head
Institution will ‘always remain open for dialogue’ around contested artworks, says Nicholas Cullinan
China’s actors written out of dramas as AI doubles ready to take their roles
Online performers left jobless as new video-generation programmes sweep industry
Gatwick airport water supplies hit by burst pipe
UK hub suffers its second supply disruption this summer
UK Science Museum drops BP as a sponsor
Leading British tourist attraction was long criticised by environmentalists over its ties to the oil and gas major