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Defunding Disaster: Entire Missouri Police Department Quits Amid Budget Slash

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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday offered an explicit endorsement of interest rate cuts, saying further cooling in the job market would be unwelcome and expressing confidence that inflation was within reach of the U.S. central bank's 2% target. "The upside risks to inflation have diminished. And the downside risks to employment have increased," Powell said in a highly anticipated speech to the Kansas City Fed's annual economic conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. "The...

Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said Friday that the central bank is poised to cut interest rates, adding that policymakers do not want to see the job market cool any further. Why it matters: In a much-anticipated speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Powell said the Fed's fight to reduce inflation has largely succeeded and it now is attuned to risks of a faltering job market — setting up a rate cut in mid-September. What they're saying: "The time has...

Kamala Harris delivered her acceptance speech to Democratic delegates at the DNC in Chicago on Thursday, telling an excited crowd that broke into chants of "U.S.A." that they were in "a fight for America's future." Harris, who is now the Democratic party's official candidate for the 2024 election, made a direct plea, warning that Donald Trump would "take away reproductive freedom" and was a threat to "fundamental freedoms," including gun safety, LGBTQ+ rights,...

Among his many other lies about his military service, Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz – Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate – also fabricated a story about re-enlisting in the National Guard right after September 11, 2001. Walz and the Harris campaign have repeatedly claimed that Walz re-enlisted instead of retiring after 20 years when terrorists piloted planes into the World Trade Center on 9/11. In reality, Walz wasn’t up for retirement until the next year, and so...

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