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Thursday, September 21, 2023

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Since Federal Reserve officials last met in July, the economy has moved in the direction they hoped to see: Inflation continues to ease, if more slowly than before, while growth remains solid and the job market cools.

Fed keeps rates unchanged but signals likelihood of another hike this year to fight inflation

The Federal Reserve left its key interest rate unchanged Wednesday for the second time in its past three meetings, a sign that it's moderating its fight against inflation as price pressures have eased. But Fed officials also signaled that they expect to raise rates once more this year.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomes Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau upon his arrival at Bharat Mandapam convention center for the G-20 Summit in New Delhi, India, earlier this month. Canada expelled a top Indian diplomat on Monday as it investigates what Prime Minister Trudeau called credible allegations that India’s government may have had links to the assassination in Canada of a Sikh activist.

Sikh separatism has long strained Canada-India ties. Now they're at their lowest point in years

Relations between Canada and India have sunk to their lowest point in years as the two countries swap accusations and expel each other's diplomats over the killing of a Sikh separatist leader.
Associated Press/Jan. 7, 2021 In this Jan. 7, 2021, image taken from Coffee County, Georgia, security video, Cathy Latham, right, appears to take a selfie with a member of a computer forensics team inside the local elections office. Lawyers for three Georgia Republicans, including Latham, who falsely claimed that Donald Trump won the state and they were “duly elected and qualified” electors, are set to argue that their criminal charges should be moved from state to federal court.

Lawyers say 3 Republicans who falsely said Trump won Georgia were 'contingent' electors, not fake

Three of the Georgia Republicans who signed a certificate falsely claiming that then-President Donald Trump won the state in 2020 were not fake electors, their lawyers argued Wednesday, but instead were a "contingent" slate in case the original election results were tossed out by a court.
Chief Master Sgt. Andrew Zahm speaks in front of the top of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile shroud at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming. Zahm has worked on the military’s nuclear missile mission for 21 years. The increased workload of maintaining old missiles with fewer people has made it harder to convince younger troops to stay, especially because with their critical skillset they could make much more money in the private sector.

Inside the delicate art of maintaining America's aging nuclear weapons

The U.S. will spend more than $750 billion over the next 10 years replacing almost every component of its nuclear defenses, including new stealth bombers, submarines and ground-based intercontinental ballistic missiles in the country's most ambitious nuclear weapons effort since the Manhattan Project.
President Joe Biden speaks during a February meeting with Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.
Biden and Brazil's Lula focus on workers' rights, while publicly playing down differences
President Joe Biden and his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, focused on workers' rights as the leaders of the Western Hemisphere's largest democracies met Wednesday in New York.
Former officer Jason Rosenblatt, left, and Aurora Police Officer Randy Roedema, right, attend a January arraignment at the Adams County Justice Center in Brighton, Colorado. Four years after Elijah McClain died after being stopped by police in Colorado, two of the police officers charged in his death are set to go on trial. Prosecutors are expected to present opening statements Wednesday in the trial of Randy Roedema and Jason Rosenblatt on manslaughter, criminally negligent reckless homicide and assault charges. They, a third officer and two paramedics were indicted in 2021 by a state grand jury convened following an outcry over McClain’s death.
Elijah McClain died after a police stop and ketamine injection. Now, 2 officers are on trial
The trial of two suburban Denver police officers was set to open Wednesday in the killing of Elijah McClain, a Black man put in a neck hold and injected with a powerful sedative whose 2019 death later became a rallying cry for nationwide protests and spurred police reform in Colorado.
Derna flood survivor Abdul Salam Anwisi cleans his home Sunday after flooding caused by Mediterranean storm Daniel, in Derna, Libya. Anwisi said he woke up at one-thirty in the morning to a scream from outside, to find his neighbors’ homes flooded with water. He, his sons, and other neighbors rushed to rescue the stranded families by pulling them from the roof of their house. Thousands of Libyans have lost family members, friends and neighbors in the devastating floods that engulfed the country’s east.
Left behind and grieving, survivors of Libya floods call for accountability
Abdel-Hamid al-Hassadi survived the devastating flooding in eastern Libya but he lost some 90 people from his extended family.
Oxfam’s Rishi Sunak ‘big head’ protests outside the Parliament in London, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. On the eve of the UN Climate Ambition Summit, Oxfam’s Rishi Sunak ‘big head’ staged a protest on top of a giant oil barrel, among dozens of real oil drums, supporting the Make Polluters Pay campaign. Calling for oil and gas giants, such as BP and Shell, to pay more tax to raise critical funds to help communities devastated by climate change. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
UK leader Rishi Sunak signals plan to backtrack on some climate goals
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is preparing to water down some of Britain's environmental commitments on Wednesday, saying the country must fight climate change without penalizing workers and consumers.
As President Joe Biden prepares to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week in New York, a new poll finds that while Americans generally view Israel as a partner or ally, many question whether his far-right government shares American values.
Biden warns Netanyahu about the health of Israel's democracy and urges compromise on court overhaul
President Joe Biden raised "hard issues," including protecting the "checks and balances" in a democracy, in a Wednesday meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pushing Netanyahu to find a compromise on a planned judicial overhaul that has set off protests in Israel and concerns in Washington.
The nationwide surge in book bannings continues. The American Library Association reported Wednesday that challenges to books in schools and public libraries will likely reach record highs in 2023, topping what had been a record pace in 2022
Challenges to library books continue at record pace in 2023, American Library Association reports
Book bans and attempted bans continue to hit record highs, according to the American Library Association. And the efforts now extend as much to public libraries as school-based libraries.
A bullet hole is seen in a shop window Wednesday following an Israeli military raid in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank. Palestinian health officials say the death toll over a day of fighting between Israel and the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip has risen to six, four from Jenin. The army said that forces carried out a rare strike Tuesday with a suicide drone during the operation and exchanged fire with gunmen in Jenin.
Six Palestinians are killed in latest fighting with Israel, at least 3 of them militants
Israeli military operations in the occupied West Bank and unrest in the Gaza Strip have killed six Palestinians, Palestinian health officials said Wednesday, the latest spike in a wave of violence that has roiled the region for more than a year. At least three of those killed were claimed as militant fighters.
Vietnam detains energy policy think tank chief, human rights group says
Vietnam has detained the director of a think tank that works on energy issues in the country -- the sixth expert working on environmental and climate issues that authorities have taken into custody in the past two years, a rights group said Wednesday.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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