April 17, 2026

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China plans to limit global access to its EV battery technologies · TechNode– technode.com
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Beijing is planning to revise its rules controlling global access to battery manufacturing technologies in a tit-for-tat move after major Western economies including the European Union and the United States decided to impose punitive tariffs on China-made electric vehicles. Chinese companies would have to obtain a government permit to export technologies used to produce lithium-phosphate-iron (LFP) cathode materials, a key component in iron-based, affordable lithium-ion batteries, according to an annual export control catalogue updated by the Ministry of Commcerce on Jan. 2. The Chinese government is also looking to place new constraints on local companies’ ability to sell technologies used in extracting lithium from hard rock spodumene ore. The proposed measures are open to public review until Feb. 1. [South China Morning Post]

Biden Downplays Link Between New Orleans Attack and Las Vegas Cybertruck Explosion: ‘Nothing to Report on That Score’– slaynews.com
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Authorities are investigating the possible links between an exploding Tesla Cybertruck outside President Donald Trump’s hotel in Las Vegas and the attack on New Year’s partygoers in New Orleans.

Both attackers have a direct link via the military which the FBI is investigating, the Associated Press reported.

However, President Joe Biden sought to downplay any connections, telling the press:

“There’s nothing to report on that score at this time.”

In the early morning hours of New Year’s Day, a pickup truck driven by 42-year-old Islamic terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar plowed into a crowd on New Orleans’ famous Bourbon Street.

After ISIS Attack, MSNBC Blows That ‘Young White Men’ Are The Problem– www.newsbusters.org
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New York Times columnist Charles Blow joined MSNBC’s Joy Reid on Thursday’s installment of The ReidOut to react to the reaction to the New Orleans New Year’s truck attack by an ISIS supporter that killed 14 people where he claimed that the big problem is that the attack was “one crime committed by one name that sounds exotic,” and that allows people to ignore the “really big problem, which is young white men in America.”

Reid led Blow with a statement rather than a question, “And last word to you on this, Charles, because this is the challenge. It’s very difficult to feel safe when, on top of everything that Mayor Landrieu just said, you have politicians that have a self-interest in lying about everything because it helps them with the political narrative, not concerned about the human narrative that could actually be really helpful.”

Suspect in Cybertruck Explosion Outside Trump Hotel Connected to New Orleans Suspect › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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Police have identified the suspect behind an attempted terror attack outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, including two startling connections to the suspect in the New Orleans terror attack on New Year’s Eve.

According to the Daily Mail, although law enforcement has not yet released the suspect’s name, they did carry out a raid of his home in Colorado Springs on Wednesday. The 37-year-old suspect, who was the sole casualty of the Cybertruck explosion, served at the same military base as Shamsud Din Jabbar, the terrorist who deliberately crashed his truck into a crowd of New Year’s Eve revelers in New Orleans on Tuesday. Jabbar was gunned down by the police after his rampage.

The Vegas suspect had multiple addresses connected to his name in the Colorado Springs area, which led to multiple neighbors being evacuated from the vicinity as the raid was conducted on his townhouse complex.

Cybertruck bomber Matthew Livelsberger’s wife left him six days before attack | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com
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“He used to have all patriotic stuff on Facebook, he was 100 percent loving the country,” Livelsberger’s uncle said.

The wife of Cybertruck bomber Matthew Livelsberger reportedly broke up with him just six days before the New Year’s Day incident where he blew himself and the Tesla vehicle up outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas.

According to a report from the New York Post, sources familiar with the investigation told the outlet that he and Jennifer Davis split after an argument about infidelity the day after Christmas. He and his Davis had a baby daughter together, but she reportedly accused him of cheating.

Corrupt FBI Has No Business Leading New Orleans Investigation– thefederalist.com
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In his New Year’s press conference concerning the New Orleans terrorist attack that took the lives of 15 people and injured dozens of others, President Joe Biden expressed confidence from Camp David that the FBI is “working nonstop to investigate this heinous act.”

“The FBI is leading the investigation to determine what happened, why it happened, and whether there was any continuing threat to public safety,” Biden said.