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JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING — With inflation nearly defeated and the job market cooling, the Federal Reserve is prepared to start cutting its key interest rate from its current 23-year high, Chair Jerome Powell said Friday. Powell did not say when rate cuts would begin or how large they might be, but the Fed is widely expected […]
At first glance, it looks like an unassuming farm. Cows are scattered across fenced-in fields. A milking barn sits in the distance with a tractor parked alongside. But the people who work there are not farmers, and other buildings look more like what you’d find at a modern university than in a cow pasture. Welcome […]
NEW YORK — Donald Trump has lost his latest bid for a new judge in his New York hush money criminal case as it heads toward a key ruling and potential sentencing next month. In a decision posted Wednesday, Judge Juan M. Merchan declined to step aside and said Trump’s demand was a rehash “rife with […]
Abortion was slightly more common across the United States in the first three months of this year than it was before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and cleared the way for states to implement bans, a report released Wednesday found. A major reason for the increase is that some Democratic-controlled states enacted laws […]
The sun came out but the power stayed off in more than 100,000 homes and businesses across four states Saturday as Debby finally moved out of the U.S. After first arriving in Florida as a hurricane, the storm spent the better part of a week unleashing tornadoes and flooding, damaging homes and taking lives as […]
Washington — President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he was not confident about a peaceful transfer of power in the United States if Republican Donald Trump loses the Nov. 5 presidential election. “If Trump loses, I’m not confident at all,” Biden said in an interview with CBS News when asked whether he thought there would […]
Justin Timberlake pleaded not guilty to driving while intoxicated (DWI) during a virtual court appearance on Friday. The Mirrors singer was arrested in Sag Harbor, New York in June and subsequently charged with one count of DWI and issued two citations, one for driving past a stop sign and one for failing to remain in […]
Three Americans recently released from Russian custody were reunited with their families late Thursday at Joint Base Andrews outside of Washington. Former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan and American journalists Alsu Kurmasheva and Evan Gershkovich were met with cheers as they left the plane that returned them to U.S. soil. U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice […]
Megan Thee Stallion has fired up the crowd at a Kamala Harris rally in Atlanta, Georgia. “I want to start off by saying Hotties for Harris!” the Texas rapper announced as she took the stage at the Georgia State Convocation Centre. The three-time Grammy winner was there to perform at Vice President Harris’s first campaign […]
WASHINGTON — The appearance of two Russian and two Chinese long-range, strategic bombers in the skies off of coastal Alaska may have been a first, but it did not catch the United States off-guard. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters Thursday the appearance of the Russian and Chinese aircraft “was not a surprise” and that […]
