Iran has increased its nearly weapons-grade uranium, a United Nations watchdog found, defying international demands to rein in its nuclear program. Iran now has enough uranium at 60% purity, just below the 90% purity needed for a weapon, to produce about four nuclear bombs, an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report said.  The report found Iran had about 400 pounds of uranium enriched to 60% as of Oct....

The Commerce Department is pushing to spend every dollar allocated under President Biden’s CHIPS and Science Act before President-elect Donald Trump enters the White House, the agency’s Secretary Gina Raimondo said during an interview this week.  Speaking to Politico, Raimondo said that it is the agency’s goal “to have really almost all of the money obligated” by the end of Biden’s term and that the upcoming transition to...