Neel T. Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, defended Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, in an interview. He also said interest rates should be held steady this month.
Neel T. Kashkari of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis said the central bank had an opportunity “to explain to our constituents and the American people why Fed independence is so important to the health and the vibrancy of the American economy.”
Félix Plasencia, an envoy of the interim government, will travel to the United States on the day the opposition leader María Corina Machado is to meet President Trump.
America’s biggest banks, including JPMorgan Chase, appear set to fight any effort by the White House to impose a cap on the credit card interest rates they charge.
A little-known and rarely enforced law prohibits ball games on some Los Angeles streets and sidewalks. The local council has begun the process of repealing it.
Some renters are constantly left without heat or hot water during the winter, leading them to bundle up in layers of clothing or risk fires by using space heaters.
Nuuk’s old harbor, Greenland, on Tuesday. People on the island have reacted with shock, anger, confusion and fear to President Trump’s interest in buying or taking over the territory.
After securing strong recruits on a tough Senate map, the Democratic leader is not only predicting an upset 2026 victory, but also naming the states he thinks his party can flip.
Senator Chuck Schumer of New York has been under intense pressure within the Democratic Party, but he has managed to secure strong Senate candidates in several top-tier races.
President Trump on Tuesday toured a Ford Motor factory in Dearborn, Mich., and extolled the benefits of tariffs in strengthening the country’s economy.
Hundreds of families are hoping their loved ones will be freed by the Venezuelan government, which has said little about who would be released or when.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency has been repealing rules, firing teams of people focused on fair lending and climate risk, and reducing the agency’s focus on low-income home buyers.
In “A Private Life,” the actress takes on her first solo lead role in which she speaks fluent French, but her French connection goes all the way back to childhood.
To prepare for her role in ”A Private Life,” Foster read French books aloud at home and then turned up in Paris to immerse herself in French life.
Republican election officials welcome the review, which relies on a federal verification tool, but they say they have not discovered a major problem when it comes to noncitizen voters.
People vote during the 2024 presidential election in Detroit. Mr. Trump and his allies have claimed for the past decade that elections are riddled with illegal votes cast by undocumented immigrants.
The treaty that created NATO did not contemplate an attack by one ally on another. A seizure of Greenland by President Trump would test the endurance of the mutual-defense pact.
Erik Duran, who fatally struck the man, Eric Duprey, as he fled on a motorbike in 2023, faces charges of manslaughter, assault and criminally negligent homicide.
Protesters last week outside the Bronx courthouse where Sgt. Erik Duran will stand trial on Wednesday in the death of Eric Duprey, whom he struck with a cooler in 2023.
Top officials from the United States, Denmark and Greenland will meet at the White House for the first time since President Trump said he wanted to own Greenland.
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