Daily on Energy: Trump claims millions of barrels taken out of Iran, energy surges in CPI, and more from the NRC chair 

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced that the House will vote Thursday morning on extending the nation's foreign spy powers through July 2, a move that comes amid a partisan clash over President Trump naming Bill Pulte to be the acting director of national intelligence (DNI).  The expected vote comes after Democrats in the Senate largely...

A sixth case of New World screwworm has been confirmed in a Texas calf.  It’s the second calf in La Salle County, Texas, to become infested with the parasite that threatens wildstock with larvae that burrows deep into the tissue of its inhabitant, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Officials in the Lone Star...

Mississippi residents are suing Elon Musk’s xAI and SpaceX over the “pervasive and inescapable” noise from their data center and accompanying power plant in a Memphis, Tenn.-area community. Three individuals who live near the plant in Southaven, a city just south of Memphis across the Mississippi-Tennessee border, filed a class-action lawsuit Monday against Musk’s companies,...

Federal regulators on Wednesday unveiled a sweeping proposal to establish new rules for the rapidly growing prediction markets industry as legal battles continue over whether the platforms constitute federally regulated financial markets or state-regulated gambling. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which oversees U.S. derivatives markets, released a 267-page notice of proposed rulemaking outlining what types […]