Prices rose 0.4% in August, the federal government said Thursday in a report that roughly aligned with expectations and keeps the Federal Reserve on track to cut interest rates.
Authorities searched on Thursday for a sniper who assassinated Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Trump, with one bullet and then slipped away amid the mayhem resulting from the latest act of political violence to befall America.
Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani on Thursday said Israeli strikes on Hamas leaders in Doha “killed any hope” of releasing hostages. Six people were killed in the strikes, according to The Associated Press. Al Thani told CNN he met with the families of Hamas hostages, who said they have “no other...
President Trump's top White House economist is on track to join the Federal Reserve Board in time to join a key meeting on interest rates next week. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) teed up Thursday a vote to advance the nomination of Stephen Miran, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA),...
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) will chair a bipartisan House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence review of the 9/11 Commission Report, her office announced. The panel will, according to Stefanik’s office, review whether progress has been made regarding the 9/11 Commission Report’s recommendations for the intelligence community. The 585-page report, released in 2004, concluded "that the...
The FBI said Thursday that authorities have recovered a rifle believed to be used to shoot and kill conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah on Wednesday. The manhunt for the assassin, who fled Utah Valley University after shooting Kirk, is still ongoing. Law enforcement has footage of the shooter, who they believe is of college...
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) said he includes President Trump among those who should tone down their rhetoric in the wake of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. ”I mean, there is a lot of rhetoric. And the president himself engages in it. He called it a hostile act to co-sponsor the Epstein resolution," said...