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4+ hour, 35+ min ago  (108+ words) The Trump administration is awarding $2 billion in grants to nine quantum-computing companies in deals that include U. S. government equity stakes," the Wall Street Journal reports. The move accelerates the administration's plans to boost the nascent industry, which has attracted a wave…...

4+ hour, 28+ min ago  (289+ words) Gas Buddy predicts another big spike in gas prices next week " up from $4. 56 a gallon " if President Trump doesn't figure out a way to open the Strait of Hormuz. Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief…...

4+ hour, 32+ min ago  (193+ words) Playbook: "It's not just domestic policy where Trump is handing Dems an open goal, with the president showing no sign of stepping back from his foreign affairs obsession. It's pretty clear now that something big is coming on Cuba " you…...

4+ hour, 7+ min ago  (381+ words) CNN: "Iran has already restarted some of its drone production during the six-week ceasefire that began in early April, one sign it is rapidly rebuilding certain military capabilities degraded by US-Israeli strikes" Four sources told CNN that US intelligence indicates…...

4+ hour, 20+ min ago  (190+ words) Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, has tried to tread an ever-narrowing path between his role as a top Justice Department official and the job that got him there in the first place " as President Trump's doggedly loyal former lead…...

4+ hour, 30+ min ago  (153+ words) I'm not doing this politically. Look, everyone tells me it's unpopular, but I think it's very popular. When they hear that it's having to do with nuclear weapons, weapons that could take out Los Angeles, take out major cities very…...

4+ hour, 17+ min ago  (197+ words) The Democratic Party is entering the midterm elections with the political winds at its back but a fiercely dissatisfied and divided voter base that is trying to steer the party in wildly divergent directions," a New York Times/Siena poll…...

4+ hour, 6+ min ago  (279+ words) Bloomberg: "The U. S. is facing protests in Greenland's capital as a new consulate opening fuels concerns over Washington's designs for the island." Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in…...

4+ hour, 23+ min ago  (359+ words) Reuters: "To reveal how Iran has been consolidating control over this strategic chokepoint in recent weeks, Reuters interviewed 20 people with knowledge of the evolving mechanism, including Asian and European shipping sources and Iranian and Iraqi officials, reviewed Iranian documents related…...

2+ min ago  (1953+ words) The following is a lightly edited transcript of the May 2 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Today we're sorting through all of this with Salon's Amanda Marcotte, who has a good piece arguing that the only…...