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As the heads of the world\u2019s two superpowers meet in Beijing this week, President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will have another nation looming over their summit: Iran.<\/p>\n
The long anticipated meeting has already been delayed once due to the U.S. and Israel\u2019s war against Iran, which has led to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Trump is eager to move on from the Middle East war that is sapping his domestic power and straining the global economy. There were two very different celebrations in Russia and in Hungary yesterday.<\/p>\n … The Russians celebrate victory over the Nazis on May 9, for by the time the Germans surrendered to the Soviets in Berlin, the time difference meant it was already May 9 in Moscow. … Putin followed his usual pattern of equating the troops fighting in Ukraine with those who fought in World War II. As he has often framed the war as a struggle against the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), he claimed today\u2019s soldiers for Russia are \u201cstanding up to an aggressive force armed and supported by the entire NATO bloc.\u201d<\/p>\n But the similarities between past celebrations and yesterday\u2019s ended there. … Putin\u2019s scaled-back celebration reflects fear of Ukrainian drone strikes, which are hitting deep inside Russia. It also reflects growing discontent over the war and its devastation of the economy, and anger at the increasing repression with which Putin is trying to control opposition. In Hungary, a different kind of celebration was underway as P\u00e9ter Magyar took the oath of office as prime minister after winning a landslide victory over Putin ally Viktor Orb\u00e1n.<\/p>\n (Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n Liquefied natural gas vessels are fueled by their cargo\u2014they\u2019re built specifically to make use of the gas boiling off from their tanks.<\/p>\n But Cheniere Energy, the largest U.S. exporter of LNG, requested \u201calternative fuel\u201d tax credits for that. The claim baffled shipping experts, because what Cheniere Energy is doing isn\u2019t, in any real sense, an alternative. It also provides little climate benefit over fueling the vessels with diesel and uses the credit in a way that tax specialists say was never intended.
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – May 10, 2026<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nCorey Mitchell, Phil McKenna, Peter Aldhous @ Inside Climate News<\/em>: $370 Million Payout<\/a><\/h2>\n
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