Nation and World
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Federal Reserve sees some progress on inflation but envisions just one rate cut this year
Jun 12, 2024 6:59 am - WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve officials said Wednesday that inflation has fallen further toward their target in recent months but signaled that they expect to cut their be...
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U.N. says Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups may have committed war crimes in a deadly raid
Jun 11, 2024 12:12 pm - GENEVA — The U.N. human rights office is citing possible war crimes by Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups in connection with a deadly raid by Israeli forces that...
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Retailers are finally cutting prices. Will it last?
Jun 11, 2024 11:31 am - Consumers have been waiting for lower prices for what seems like forever. And now costs are finally going down. (Some of them, at least.) After a yearslong run up in pric...
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Biden and gun control advocates want to flip an issue long dominated by the NRA
Jun 11, 2024 7:58 am - ATLANTA — Groups pushing tighter gun laws have been building political muscle through multiple elections, boosted by the outcry following mass shootings at schools and ot...
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The Rev. James Lawson Jr., civil rights leader who preached nonviolent protest, dies at 95
Jun 11, 2024 7:07 am - LOS ANGELES — The Rev. James Lawson Jr., an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand brutal reactions from white authorities as the Civil Rights ...
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Blinken welcomes U.N. vote in favor of Gaza cease-fire plan and again calls on Hamas to accept it
Jun 11, 2024 7:07 am - TEL AVIV, Israel — Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that the U.N. Security Council’s vote in favor of a U.S.-backed proposal for a Gaza cease-fire and hosta...
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Malawi’s vice president and 9 others are confirmed dead after the wreckage of their plane is located
Jun 11, 2024 7:03 am - BLANTYRE, Malawi — Malawian Vice President Saulos Chilima and nine other people died when the small military plane they were traveling in crashed in bad weather in a moun...
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Attraction starring Disney's first Black princess replaces ride based on film many viewed as racist
Jun 11, 2024 7:00 am - ORLANDO, Fla. — A new attraction starring the first Black Disney princess is opening at the company’s U.S. theme park resorts, and some Disney followers see it as a fitti...
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Hunter Biden convicted of all 3 felonies in federal gun trial
Jun 11, 2024 6:56 am - Hunter Biden was convicted Tuesday of all three felony charges related to the purchase of a revolver in 2018 when, prosecutors argued, the president’s son lied on a mandatory gun-purchase form by saying he was not illegally using or addicted to drugs.
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UN Security Council adopts a cease-fire resolution aimed at ending Israel-Hamas war in Gaza
Jun 10, 2024 6:44 pm - UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council on Monday approved its first resolution endorsing a cease-fire plan aimed at ending the eight-month war between Israel and Hama...