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Appeals Court Says Lisa Cook Can Remain on Fed Board

The decision came just a day before the Federal Reserve begins a two-day meeting at which policymakers are expected to cut interest rates.

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President Trump has tried to oust Lisa Cook from her role as a Federal Reserve governor over allegations of mortgage fraud, even though she hasn’t been charged with a crime.
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Senate Confirms Stephen Miran as Fed Governor

The Senate voted to install one of President Trump’s top economic advisers at the central bank, opening the door for him to cast a vote at this week’s meeting to set interest rates.

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Stephen Miran said he planned to take only a leave of absence from his post on the Council of Economic Advisers, serving a potentially short term at the Fed before returning to the White House.
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What Does ‘Real Unity’ Mean to the White House?

After Charlie Kirk’s death, the Trump administration has identified a bigger culprit: leftists bent on violence.

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Vice President JD Vance spoke on Charlie Kirk’s podcast on Monday from the White House.
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From Colombo to Kathmandu, the furious youth movements toppling entrenched elites

Talk of revolution in the coffee shops of Nepal increased after protest movements across south Asia

Across Kathmandu, the acrid stench of smoke still lingers. Singha Durbar, the opulent palace that housed Nepal’s parliament, stands charred and empty, its grand white columns turned a sooty black. The home of former prime minister KP Sharma Oli – who just last week seemed to have an unshakable grip on power – is among those reduced to ruins, while Oli remains in hiding, his location still unknown.

They stand as symbolic monuments to the week that Nepal’s political system was brought crashing down at the hands of a leaderless, organic movement led by young people who called themselves the Gen Zs, referring to those aged between 13 and 28.

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© Photograph: Tharaka Basnayaka/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock

© Photograph: Tharaka Basnayaka/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock

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‘We dreamed of a better future’: remembering the first moments of Papua New Guinea in 1975

Australia had governed PNG for decades and the transfer of power was an attempt to unify more than 800 language groups under one state

Fifty years ago, on the day Papua New Guinea gained independence from Australia, a young law student lowered the Australian flag and raised Papua New Guinea’s for the first time.

The 22-year-old, Arnold Amet, had spent the preceding years active on his university campus, debating the merits of independence, petitioning future leaders to abandon the British monarchy, and imagining what it might mean for his people to finally govern themselves.

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© Photograph: National Archives of Australia

© Photograph: National Archives of Australia

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