Press Digest: Wall Street Journal - August 28

Element Solutions

28/08/2026 06:40

Aug 28 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
     
 - A U.S. federal judge ruled late Thursday that the Trump administration violated Anthropic's First Amendment rights by blacklisting the artificial-intelligence company as a supply-chain risk.
     
 - The Trump administration is in advanced talks with Venezuela for the U.S. to take a direct stake in 17 of the country's oil-and-gas fields.
     
 - Federal authorities are preparing charges against a U.S. servicemember suspected of earning over $1 million from Polymarket bets on military operations.
     
 - Solstice Advanced Materials SOLS.O and Element Solutions ESI.N have called off their deal to combine, citing feedback from their respective shareholders.
 
 - Nvidia NVDA.O paused some deals in a new financing initiative that offered credit support to artificial-intelligence cloud providers in exchange for a share of revenue.
 
 - U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to change the name of Lake Ontario to "Lake America," a further escalation of the U.S. trade dispute with Canada. 
 
 

 (Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)
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