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The Trump administration's Justice Department has quietly handed off its investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to the Fed's own inspector general. That move effectively clears a potential path for Kevin Warsh to be nominated as Powell's replacement, raising serious questions about the independence of the central bank from political pressure.
Shifting to regulatory territory, America's telecom regulator has clarified that its ban on foreign-made routers extends beyond home hardware to include mobile hotspots and any domestic router that relies on a five G cellular connection. The catch is that almost no consumer networking equipment is actually manufactured in the United States, leaving the industry in a genuinely awkward spot.
And in Russia, a government plan to tax VPN traffic is running into trouble before it even launches. Operators are pushing back on a May first deadline, citing technical obstacles. Analysts suggest the resistance may be less about engineering challenges and more about buying time, as the Kremlin continues tightening its grip on internet access.
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