Following higher than expected inflation and labor market readings in January and February on the tailwinds of a booming U.S. economy, Federal Reserve officials are suggesting they may keep interest rates higher for longer. “It is too soon to say whether the recent readings represent more than just a bump,” Fed chair Jerome Powell said...
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) hauled in more than $12 million in the first quarter of fundraising in the Ohio Senate race, his campaign announced Wednesday. Brown is running against businessman Bernie Moreno (R) in November as he vies for a fourth term in the Senate. “While Sherrod’s opponent makes it clear he’s only...
President Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) joined together Wednesday to highlight the administration's efforts to lower health care costs along with the senator's recent wins in pressuring drug companies to lower the prices of some commonly used inhalers. Gathered at the White House with health care advocates and experts, Sanders lamented that despite working...
The Biden administration on Wednesday barred drilling and mining in a Colorado landscape known as the Thompson Divide, an area of mountaintops, foothills and valleys in the center of the state. The administration said it would bar drilling and mining in 221,898 acres of the divide’s lands for 20 years as part of an effort...
The gathering of population statistics may be viewed by many residents as a mundane domestic administrative task, but the patterns it reveals provides concrete data about racial hierarchies and exclusion. Without it, systemic racism is rendered invisible.
A spring storm system that brought heavy rain, wind, snow and tornadoes across several states Tuesday is now making its way to the East Coast, putting potentially millions more in the path of severe weather. The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a bulletin Wednesday that residents from the Great Lakes region, New York, New England...
A host of Democratic legislators have filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in opposition to subjecting unhoused people to criminal penalties. Led by Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), 18 Democrats argue that arresting or fining people who have no other choice for sleeping outside is unconstitutional and will trap unhoused people in a cycle...
A new poll found most Americans agreeing on most of the country’s core values including the right to vote and freedom of religion. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found 91 percent of U.S. adults said the right to vote is either extremely or very important to the nation’s identity. Eighty-four percent of...
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s (D) office is opposing former President Trump’s demand that his fast-approaching hush money trial be delayed because of prejudicial publicity. In court papers made public on Wednesday, prosecutors argued the April 15 trial date should go ahead as planned, noting it was Trump’s eighth bid to postpone the schedule as...
Billionaire investor Steve Cohen said Wednesday the increase of artificial intelligence (AI) technology will help bring forward the four-day work week. “My belief is a four-day work week is coming,” Cohen, the owner of the New York Mets, said Wednesday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” Cohen said l that “between the advent of AI” and...
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. knocked CNN on Tuesday for the way it framed comments he made on the network's air about the "threat" he said both President Biden and former President Trump pose to the country. During an interview that aired on Erin Burnett's program Monday, Kennedy said he could “make an...
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan has postponed a planned trip to Saudi Arabia as he recovers from a cracked rib, a spokesperson said Wednesday. John Kirby, a White House spokesperson on national security issues, told reporters Sullivan was planning to travel to the region this week, but the trip has been postponed because...
