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Australian ambassador: 'American model is proving its resilience' despite threat from Chinese industrial policy
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Biden is sending $61 billion to Ukraine. Much of it will pass through the US economy first.
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Trump trial updates: Defense attempts to undermine Michael Cohen’s credibility, depicting him as a serial liar seeking vengeance
The former president’s criminal hush money trial resumed Thursday in Manhattan.
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Former House Speaker Paul Ryan says he’s not voting for Trump : 'Character is too important'
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Trump trial full coverage: Michael Cohen faces cross-examination on 2nd day of testimony
The former president’s criminal hush money trial resumes Tuesday in Manhattan, where his former lawyer and so-called fixer is expected to take the stand for the second straight day.
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Fed's Williams and Barkin soothed worries about any rate hikes in 2024
New York Fed president John Williams and Richmond Fed president Thomas Barkin offered comments Monday that soothed any concerns the Fed might be considering a rate hike.
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Trump trial updates: Michael Cohen testifies that Trump directed him to pay hush money to Stormy Daniels and approved scheme to conceal reimbursement
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Fed officials stick to Powell’s higher-for-longer script as a key inflation reading looms
Jay Powell’s colleagues spent the last week backing a stance the central bank chair hammered home at his last press conference: Interest rates will be staying higher for longer.
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Trump hush money trial: What we've learned from the Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen testimony so far
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Trump trial full coverage: Defense lawyer accuses Stormy Daniels of lying about sexual encounter with Trump
The former president’s criminal hush money trial resumed Thursday in Manhattan.
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When asked by lawyers for Donald Trump whether she had made up her story about a sexual affair with the former president, adult film actress Stormy Daniels had an emphatic, one-word answer: “No!”
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Who is Michael Cohen, Trump's ex-lawyer testifying in the former president's hush money trial?
Trump's devoted "fixer" might now play a role in turning the former president into a convicted felon.
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New inflation reading reinforces Fed's higher-for-longer stance
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Trump trial full coverage: Michael Cohen testifies in hush money case, recounts arranging deal to silence Stormy Daniels
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Pro-Palestinian protests spread as hundreds arrested at Emory University, Emerson College and elsewhere across the U.S. Here's what's happening.
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Trump trial full coverage: Defense tries to paint Stormy Daniels's lawyer as a serial extortionist in hush money case
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FCC officially votes to reinstate net neutrality
The Federal Communications Commission made its official vote Thursday to reinstate net neutrality, which bars broadband providers from slowing or even blocking internet traffic to some sites while improving access to others that pay extra fees. With some changes and protections, passing the order titled Safeguarding and Securing the Open Internet restores rules passed back during the Obama administration in 2015 and rolled back in 2017, after Donald Trump was elected president. Since the FCC announced in September that it would be pursuing this as a policy goal, it was more or less a fait accompli; there was no real reason why the Commission, split 3-2 in favor of the Democrats, would vote against it.
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Timeline: Key legal and electoral dates for Donald Trump
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