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Access to affordable credit helps me pay my employees, but I don't really need it. Inflation is killing me. But who cares? Big retailers are making record profits. That's why we support the Durbin Marshall credit card bill. See? Banks and credit unions help small businesses make payroll. This bill would cut the vital resources they need. While increasing megastore profits.
They deserve it, don't they?
Tell Congress, stop the Durbin Marshall money grab for corporate megastores. Paid for by the Electronic Payments Coalition. Here's your midday brief for Friday, March 20th. I'm Pierre Bien-Aimé for The Wall Street Journal. The Trump administration is suing Harvard University, alleging that the school violated Jewish students' civil rights.
The suit says Harvard failed to protect its Jewish and Israeli students by ignoring hostility on campus and refusing to enforce anti-harassment rules. It seeks to recover millions of taxpayer dollars that Harvard accepted while allegedly violating civil rights law. Harvard says it's taken steps to address anti-Semitism on campus.
The school says the lawsuit is retaliation by the administration because of Harvard, quote, "...refusing to turn over control of the school to the government." The Pentagon is sending three warships and around 2,500 Marines to the Middle East. It's the second deployment of Marines to the region in the past week. Meanwhile, Iran says U.S.
and Israeli strikes have not stopped its ability to produce missiles. And Iran's armed forces warned that they will target the country's enemies, including officials, pilots, and soldiers, in amusement parks, resorts, and tourist centers, saying, quote, "...no place in the world will be safe for you."
And a new federal indictment alleges that several super microcomputer employees, including one of its co-founders, helped smuggle billions of dollars in high-end NVIDIA chips to China using dummy devices to deceive an American inspector. The alleged scheme involved a Southeast Asian company that repackaged servers before shipping them to China. Three defendants couldn't be reached for comment.
Supermicro, which wasn't named as a defendant, said it has placed two employees on leave and fired a contractor. It also said the alleged conduct was against its policies. Heads up, an artificial intelligence tool helped us make this episode by creating summaries that were based on WSJ reporting and then reviewed and adapted by an editor.
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