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American businesses could be owed tens of billions of dollars in refunds for tariffs they paid on foreign goods.U.S. Customs and Border Protection has collected more than $200 billion in tariff revenue from American businesses of all sizes from October through August 24, according to agency data. Of that, more than $70 billion comes from payments of country-based tariffs that a federal appeals court recently ruled President Trump lacked the authority to impose. Industry-specific tariffs, such as steel and aluminum levies, are unaffected by Friday’s ruling. The court on Friday ruled that President Trump unlawfully invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA,…

Call it whatever you want, but one thing is for certain: Kyle Konrardy has ice in his veins.The Iowa State kicker proved to be the difference in the Cy-Hawk rivalry game for the second straight year. Konrardy drained the game-winning field goal in No. 16 Iowa State’s 16-13 win over Iowa on “Big Noon Saturday,” making a 54-yard field goal with 1:54 remaining. “Oh man, he’s really special,” Iowa State head coach Matt Campbell told FOX Sports’ Jenny Taft after Saturday’s game. “He continues to do great things. What he’s about, what he stands for, how he practices – all those…

In just three days, Apple will hold a press event to announce its latest round of new products. We’ve seen the artwork, we’ve read the tagline (“Awe Dropping”), and we can be pretty sure the iPhone 17 will make an appearance. But everything else is shrouded in mystery. Until now. Yes, that’s right. Once again, Macworld sent a team of hard-bitten journalists to rummage through the bins at Apple Park, and once again, they hit pay dirt: the full presentation script, storyboards, rehearsal tapes, props, costumes, one of those old-timey movie clapperboards, and several half-eaten sandwiches. We’ve eaten the sandwiches…

Microsoft said on Saturday that its Microsoft Azure users may experience increased latency due to multiple undersea fiber cuts in the Red Sea. Traffic traversing through the Middle East originating and or terminating in Asia or Europe regions may experience increased disruptions, the company said in a service health status update for its Azure service. “Undersea fiber cuts can take time to repair, as such we will continuously monitor, rebalance, and optimize routing to reduce customer impact in the meantime. We’ll continue to provide daily updates, or sooner if conditions change,” Microsoft said. As a result of the disruption, Azure,…

The levies are the same as those that the Asian nation has been imposing on America dispersion unshifted single-mode optical fibre since April 2023Published Thu, Sep 4, 2025 · 07:48 AM[LONDON] China started imposing levies on additional US optical fibre imports after a six-month investigation found that American companies circumvented the country’s anti-dumping measures.The duties, ranging from 33.3 per cent to 78.2 per cent, took effect on Thursday (Sep 4) Beijing time on “certain cut-off shifted single-mode optical fibre” from the US, according to a statement from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce. Among the companies subject to the new duties, Corning now…

Just a heads up, if you buy something through our links, we may get a small share of the sale. It’s one of the ways we keep the lights on here. Click here for more. A federal judge has dealt a blow to Meta’s legal defense, ruling that parts of a discrimination and harassment lawsuit filed by one of the company’s earliest employees will proceed. The case was brought by Kelly Stonelake, who joined Meta (then Facebook) in 2009 and remained there until her layoff in early 2024.  Earlier this year, she sued the tech giant in Washington state, alleging…

WR Jeremiah Smith caught his 2nd TD of the game, extending Buckeyes lead 28-0

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 2, 2025. Carlos Barria | ReutersPostal traffic into the United States plunged by more than 80% after the Trump administration ended a tariff exemption for low-cost imports, the United Nations postal agency said Saturday.The Universal Postal Union says it has started rolling out new measures that can help postal operators around the world calculate and collect duties, or taxes, after the U.S. eliminated the so-called “de minimis exemption” for lower-value parcels.Eighty-eight postal operators have told the UPU…

[JAKARTA] A sell-off in Indonesian stocks and bonds continued on Monday (Sep 1), weighed by growing concerns over political stability in South-east Asia’s biggest economy. The country’s equity benchmark fell as much as 3.6 per cent, the most in nearly five months, before trimming losses to close down about 1.5 per cent, with financial shares including Bank Rakyat Indonesia among the biggest drags. The move came after protests heightened over the weekend in response to rising living costs and inequality. Stress also was evident in the bond market, with yields on the nation’s benchmark 10-year government paper up seven basis points…

France’s defence ministry is boosting investment in a 1990s radar system, as part of Paris’s push to bolster its early warning defences and curb Europe’s reliance on the United States. In a Normandy field pocked with rabbit holes, spindly structures form part of a long-range detection system dubbed Nostradamus, Europe’s only “over-the-horizon” radar which can see as far as Moscow. Developed in 1995, the technology works by bending signals beyond the Earth’s curvature, but has long been sidelined. Now, Nostradamus — named after the 16th-century French astrologer and reputed seer — sits at the heart of the country’s efforts to…